The effect of a discovery: creation of quantum computers based on magnetic molecule

Recently, a correspondent member of Academy of Science of Moldova, Boris S. Ucherblat, a Professor of Beersheva University, Israel, in close interdisciplinary collaboration with a group of scholars from Bielefeld University, Germany and Institute of Neelie, France made a breakthrough discovery which can serve as a bed-rock in development of quantum computers. The discovery’ results are described in the "Quantum oscillations in molecular magnets” article, published in the “Nature” journal. The magnetic molecule has unprecedented effects and includes 15 vanadium atoms, adjacent oxygen atoms and organic ligands.

Scholars proved that this molecule may act as quantum information bearer. And how does this work? Firstly, the incoherence consisted in associating the nuclear spin with vanadium nucleuses in structure. Until recently it was not clear whether quantum states of molecular magnets have sufficiently long life cycles to apply them in computation calculus. The outcome of the breakthrough discovery showed that they have. The authors noticed also, distinct quantum oscillations among spin systems of molecular magnet, consistent with long term quantum coherence. A remarkable achievement is the creation of a model-scheme and a “design” that could apply the above mentioned properties in quantum machine building and in developing the nanotechnology science.

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