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ArticleACS nano2025

Tunable Spin Qubit Pairs in Quantum Dot-Molecule Conjugates.

Autumn Y Lee, Mandefro Teferi, Frida S Hernandez, Amisha Jain, Tiffany Tran, Kefu Wang, Tomoyasu Mani, Adam M Schwartzberg, Ming Lee Tang, Jens Niklas and 2 more

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Autumn Y LeeDepartment of Chemistry, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, United States.ORCID 0009-0004-1860-5187
Mandefro TeferiChemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States.
Frida S HernandezDepartment of Chemistry, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, United States.
Amisha JainDepartment of Chemistry, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9528-1551
Tiffany TranDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2472-3452
Kefu WangDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.ORCID 0009-0009-7704-1971
Tomoyasu ManiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3060, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4125-5195
Adam M SchwartzbergThe Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Ming Lee TangDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7642-2598
Jens NiklasChemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6462-2680
Oleg G PoluektovChemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3067-9272
Jacob H OlshanskyDepartment of Chemistry, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3658-1487

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Abstract

Organic molecules and quantum dots (QDs) have both shown promise as materials that can host quantum bits (qubits). This is in part because of their synthetic tunability. The current work employs a combination of both materials to demonstrate a series of tunable quantum dot-organic molecule conjugates that can both host photogenerated spin-based qubit pairs (SQPs) and sensitize molecular triplet states. The photogenerated qubit pairs, composed of a spin-correlated radical pair (SCRP), are particularly intriguing since they can be initialized in well-defined, nonthermally populated, quantum states. Additionally, the radical pair enables charge recombination to a polarized molecular triplet state, also in a well-defined quantum state. The materials underlying this system are an organic molecular chromophore and electron donor, 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene, and a quantum dot acceptor composed of ZnO. We prepare a series of quantum dot-molecule conjugates that possess variable quantum dot size and two different linker lengths connecting the two moieties. Optical spectroscopy revealed that the QD-molecule conjugates undergo photoexcited charge separation to generate long-lived charge-separated radical pairs. The resulting spin states are probed using light-induced time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance (TR-EPR) spectroscopy, revealing the presence of singlet-generated SCRPs and molecular triplet states. Notably, the EPR spectra of the radical pairs are dependent on the geometry of this highly tunable system. The

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electron paramagnetic resonancequantum dotsspin-correlated radical pairsspin polarizationspin qubits

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PMCPMC11966761

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