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  1. Article ; Online: Pulse sequences for manipulating the spin states of molecular radical-pair-based electron spin qubit systems for quantum information applications.

    Pazera, Gediminas J / Krzyaniak, Matthew D / Wasielewski, Michael R

    The Journal of chemical physics

    2023  Volume 158, Issue 20

    Abstract: Molecular qubits are an emerging platform in quantum information science due to the unmatched structural control that chemical design and synthesis provide compared to other leading qubit technologies. This theoretical study investigates pulse sequence ... ...

    Abstract Molecular qubits are an emerging platform in quantum information science due to the unmatched structural control that chemical design and synthesis provide compared to other leading qubit technologies. This theoretical study investigates pulse sequence protocols for spin-correlated radical pairs, which are important molecular spin qubit pair (SQP) candidates. Here, we introduce improved microwave pulse protocols for enhancing the execution times of quantum logic gates based on SQPs. Significantly, this study demonstrates that the proposed pulse sequences effectively remove certain contributions from nuclear spin effects on spin dynamics, which are a common source of decoherence. Additionally, we have analyzed the factors that control the fidelity of the SQP spin state, following the application of the controlled-NOT gate. It was found that higher magnetic fields introduce a high frequency oscillation in the fidelity. Thereupon, it is suggested that further research should be geared toward executing quantum gates at lower magnetic field values. In addition, an absolute bound of the fidelity outcome due to decoherence is determined, which clearly identifies the important factors that control gate execution. Finally, examples of the application of these pulse sequences to SQPs are described.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-31
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3113-6
    ISSN 1089-7690 ; 0021-9606
    ISSN (online) 1089-7690
    ISSN 0021-9606
    DOI 10.1063/5.0145278
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  2. Article ; Online: Photogenerated Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs: From Photosynthetic Energy Transduction to Quantum Information Science.

    Harvey, Samantha M / Wasielewski, Michael R

    Journal of the American Chemical Society

    2021  Volume 143, Issue 38, Page(s) 15508–15529

    Abstract: More than a half century ago, the NMR spectra of diamagnetic products resulting from radical pair reactions were observed to have strongly enhanced absorptive and emissive resonances. At the same time, photogenerated radical pairs were discovered to ... ...

    Abstract More than a half century ago, the NMR spectra of diamagnetic products resulting from radical pair reactions were observed to have strongly enhanced absorptive and emissive resonances. At the same time, photogenerated radical pairs were discovered to exhibit unusual electron paramagnetic resonance spectra that also had such resonances. These non-Boltzmann, spin-polarized spectra were observed in both chemical systems as well as in photosynthetic reaction center proteins following photodriven charge separation. Subsequent studies of these phenomena led to a variety of chemical electron donor-acceptor model systems that provided a broad understanding of the spin dynamics responsible for these spectra. When the distance between the two radicals is restricted, these observations result from the formation of spin-correlated radical pairs (SCRPs) in which the spin-spin exchange and dipolar interactions between the two unpaired spins play an important role in the spin dynamics. Early on, it was recognized that SCRPs photogenerated by ultrafast electron transfer are entangled spin pairs created in a well-defined spin state. These SCRPs can serve as spin qubit pairs (SQPs), whose spin dynamics can be manipulated to study a wide variety of quantum phenomena intrinsic to the field of quantum information science. This Perspective highlights the role of SCRPs as SQPs, gives examples of possible quantum manipulations using SQPs, and provides some thoughts on future directions.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-09-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 3155-0
    ISSN 1520-5126 ; 0002-7863
    ISSN (online) 1520-5126
    ISSN 0002-7863
    DOI 10.1021/jacs.1c07706
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  3. Article ; Online: Mixed Electronic States in Molecular Dimers: Connecting Singlet Fission, Excimer Formation, and Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer.

    Young, Ryan M / Wasielewski, Michael R

    Accounts of chemical research

    2020  Volume 53, Issue 9, Page(s) 1957–1968

    Abstract: ConspectusChromophore aggregates are capable of a wide variety of excited-state dynamics that are potentially of great use in optoelectronic devices based on organic molecules. For example, singlet fission, the process by which a singlet exciton is down ... ...

    Abstract ConspectusChromophore aggregates are capable of a wide variety of excited-state dynamics that are potentially of great use in optoelectronic devices based on organic molecules. For example, singlet fission, the process by which a singlet exciton is down converted into two triplet excitons, holds promise for extending the efficiency of solar cells, while other processes, such as excimer formation, are commonly regarded as parasitic pathways or traps. Other processes, such as symmetry-breaking charge transfer, where the excited dimer charge separates into a radical ion pair, can be both a trap and potentially useful in devices, depending on the context. Thus, an understanding of the precise mechanisms of each of these processes is vital to designing tailor-made organic chromophores for molecular optoelectronics.These excited-state phenomena have each been well-studied in recent years and show tantalizing connections as the molecular systems and environments are subtly changed. These seemingly disparate phenomena can be described within the same unifying framework, where each case can be represented as one point in continuum of mixed states. The coherent mixed state is observed experimentally, and it collapses to each of the limiting cases under well-defined conditions. This framework is especially useful in demonstrating the connections between these different states so that we can determine the factors that control their evolution and may ultimately guide the state mixtures to the product state of choice. The emerging picture shows that tuning the electronic coupling through proper arrangement of the chromophores must accompany environmental tuning of the chromophore energies to produce a fully mixed state. Changes in either of these quantities leads to evolution of the admixture and ultimately collapsing the superposition onto a given state, producing one of the photophysical pathways discussed above.In our laboratory, we are utilizing covalent dimers to precisely arrange the chromophores in rigid, well-defined geometries to systematically study the factors that determine the degree of state mixing and its fate. We interrogate these dynamics with transient absorption spectroscopy from the UV continuously into the mid-infrared, along with time-resolved Raman and emission and magnetic resonance spectroscopies to build a complete and detailed molecular level picture of the dynamics of these dimers. The knowledge gained from dimer studies can also be applied to the understanding the dynamics in extended molecular solids. The insight afforded by these studies will help guide the creation of new designer chromophores with control over the fate of the excited state.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-13
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1483291-4
    ISSN 1520-4898 ; 0001-4842
    ISSN (online) 1520-4898
    ISSN 0001-4842
    DOI 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00397
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  4. Article: Photogenerated Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs: From Photosynthetic Energy Transduction to Quantum Information Science

    Harvey, Samantha M. / Wasielewski, Michael R.

    Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2021 Sept. 17, v. 143, no. 38

    2021  

    Abstract: More than a half century ago, the NMR spectra of diamagnetic products resulting from radical pair reactions were observed to have strongly enhanced absorptive and emissive resonances. At the same time, photogenerated radical pairs were discovered to ... ...

    Abstract More than a half century ago, the NMR spectra of diamagnetic products resulting from radical pair reactions were observed to have strongly enhanced absorptive and emissive resonances. At the same time, photogenerated radical pairs were discovered to exhibit unusual electron paramagnetic resonance spectra that also had such resonances. These non-Boltzmann, spin-polarized spectra were observed in both chemical systems as well as in photosynthetic reaction center proteins following photodriven charge separation. Subsequent studies of these phenomena led to a variety of chemical electron donor–acceptor model systems that provided a broad understanding of the spin dynamics responsible for these spectra. When the distance between the two radicals is restricted, these observations result from the formation of spin-correlated radical pairs (SCRPs) in which the spin–spin exchange and dipolar interactions between the two unpaired spins play an important role in the spin dynamics. Early on, it was recognized that SCRPs photogenerated by ultrafast electron transfer are entangled spin pairs created in a well-defined spin state. These SCRPs can serve as spin qubit pairs (SQPs), whose spin dynamics can be manipulated to study a wide variety of quantum phenomena intrinsic to the field of quantum information science. This Perspective highlights the role of SCRPs as SQPs, gives examples of possible quantum manipulations using SQPs, and provides some thoughts on future directions.
    Keywords electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy ; electron transfer ; energy ; information science ; photosynthetic reaction centers
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-0917
    Size p. 15508-15529.
    Publishing place American Chemical Society
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 3155-0
    ISSN 1520-5126 ; 0002-7863
    ISSN (online) 1520-5126
    ISSN 0002-7863
    DOI 10.1021/jacs.1c07706
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  5. Article ; Online: Quantum Gate Operations on a Spectrally Addressable Photogenerated Molecular Electron Spin-Qubit Pair.

    Mao, Haochuan / Pažėra, Gediminas J / Young, Ryan M / Krzyaniak, Matthew D / Wasielewski, Michael R

    Journal of the American Chemical Society

    2023  Volume 145, Issue 11, Page(s) 6585–6593

    Abstract: Sub-nanosecond photodriven electron transfer from a molecular donor to an acceptor can be used to generate a radical pair (RP) having two entangled electron spins in a well-defined pure initial singlet quantum state to serve as a spin-qubit pair (SQP). ... ...

    Abstract Sub-nanosecond photodriven electron transfer from a molecular donor to an acceptor can be used to generate a radical pair (RP) having two entangled electron spins in a well-defined pure initial singlet quantum state to serve as a spin-qubit pair (SQP). Achieving good spin-qubit addressability is challenging because many organic radical ions have large hyperfine couplings (HFCs) in addition to significant
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-13
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3155-0
    ISSN 1520-5126 ; 0002-7863
    ISSN (online) 1520-5126
    ISSN 0002-7863
    DOI 10.1021/jacs.3c01243
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  6. Article ; Online: Mechanism of Ultrafast Triplet Exciton Formation in Single Cocrystals of π-Stacked Electron Donors and Acceptors.

    Williams, Malik L / Schlesinger, Itai / Jacobberger, Robert M / Wasielewski, Michael R

    Journal of the American Chemical Society

    2022  Volume 144, Issue 40, Page(s) 18607–18618

    Abstract: Ultrafast triplet formation in donor-acceptor (D-A) systems typically occurs by spin-orbit charge-transfer intersystem crossing (SOCT-ISC), which requires a significant orbital angular momentum change and is thus usually observed when the adjacent π ... ...

    Abstract Ultrafast triplet formation in donor-acceptor (D-A) systems typically occurs by spin-orbit charge-transfer intersystem crossing (SOCT-ISC), which requires a significant orbital angular momentum change and is thus usually observed when the adjacent π systems of D and A are orthogonal; however, the results presented here show that subnanosecond triplet formation occurs in a series of D-A cocrystals that form one-dimensional cofacial π stacks. Using ultrafast transient absorption microscopy, photoexcitation of D-A single cocrystals, where D is coronene (Cor) or pyrene (Pyr) and A is
    MeSH term(s) Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy ; Electrons ; Naphthalenes ; Perylene/chemistry ; Pyrenes
    Chemical Substances Naphthalenes ; Pyrenes ; Perylene (5QD5427UN7)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-30
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 3155-0
    ISSN 1520-5126 ; 0002-7863
    ISSN (online) 1520-5126
    ISSN 0002-7863
    DOI 10.1021/jacs.2c08584
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  7. Article ; Online: Control of excitation selectivity in pulse EPR on spin-correlated radical pairs with shaped pulses.

    Panariti, Daniele / Conron, Sarah M / Zhang, Jinyuan / Wasielewski, Michael R / Di Valentin, Marilena / Tait, Claudia E

    Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

    2024  Volume 26, Issue 5, Page(s) 3842–3856

    Abstract: Spin-correlated radical pairs generated by photoinduced electron transfer are characterised by a distinctive spin polarisation and a unique behaviour in pulse electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Under non-selective excitation, an out-of- ... ...

    Abstract Spin-correlated radical pairs generated by photoinduced electron transfer are characterised by a distinctive spin polarisation and a unique behaviour in pulse electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Under non-selective excitation, an out-of-phase echo signal modulated by the dipolar and exchange coupling interactions characterising the radical pair is observed and allows extraction of geometric information in the two-pulse out-of-phase electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) experiment. The investigation of the role of spin-correlated radical pairs in a variety of biological processes and in the fundamental mechanisms underlying device function in optoelectronics, as well as their potential use in quantum information science, relies on the ability to precisely address and manipulate the spins using microwave pulses. Here, we explore the use of shaped pulses for controlled narrowband selective and broadband non-selective excitation of spin-correlated radical pairs in two model donor-bridge-acceptor triads, characterised by different spectral widths, at X- and Q-band frequencies. We demonstrate selective excitation with close to rectangular excitation profiles using BURP (band-selective, uniform response, pure-phase) pulses and complete non-selective excitation of both spins of the radical pair using frequency-swept chirp pulses. The use of frequency-swept pulses in out-of-phase ESEEM experiments enables increased modulation depths and, combined with echo transient detection and Fourier transformation, correlation of the dipolar frequencies with the EPR spectrum and therefore the potential to extract additional information on the donor-acceptor pair geometry.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-31
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1476244-4
    ISSN 1463-9084 ; 1463-9076
    ISSN (online) 1463-9084
    ISSN 1463-9076
    DOI 10.1039/d3cp06009h
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  8. Article ; Online: Optical Initialization of Molecular Qubit Spin States Using Weak Exchange Coupling to Photogenerated Fullerene Triplet States.

    Mao, Haochuan / Young, Ryan M / Krzyaniak, Matthew D / Wasielewski, Michael R

    The journal of physical chemistry. B

    2022  

    Abstract: The ability to initialize an electron spin qubit into a well-defined state is an important criterion for quantum information applications. To achieve this goal, a chromophore photoexcited to its triplet state is used to strongly spin polarize a nearby ... ...

    Abstract The ability to initialize an electron spin qubit into a well-defined state is an important criterion for quantum information applications. To achieve this goal, a chromophore photoexcited to its triplet state is used to strongly spin polarize a nearby stable radical in a series of C
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1520-5207
    ISSN (online) 1520-5207
    DOI 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c07096
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  9. Article ; Online: Ultrafast Charge Transfer Dynamics in a Slip-Stacked Donor-Acceptor-Acceptor System.

    Lin, Chenjian / O'Connor, James P / Phelan, Brian T / Young, Ryan M / Wasielewski, Michael R

    The journal of physical chemistry. A

    2023  Volume 128, Issue 1, Page(s) 244–250

    Abstract: Photoexcitation of molecular electron donor and/or acceptor chromophore aggregates can greatly affect their charge-transfer dynamics. Excitonic coupling not only alters the energy landscape in the excited state but may also open new photophysical ... ...

    Abstract Photoexcitation of molecular electron donor and/or acceptor chromophore aggregates can greatly affect their charge-transfer dynamics. Excitonic coupling not only alters the energy landscape in the excited state but may also open new photophysical pathways, such as symmetry-breaking charge separation (SB-CS). Here, we investigate the impact of excitonic coupling on a covalent donor-acceptor-acceptor system comprising a perylene donor (Per) and two perylenediimide (PDI) acceptor chromophores in which the three components are π-stacked in a geometry that is slipped along their long axes (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-28
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1520-5215
    ISSN (online) 1520-5215
    DOI 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07539
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  10. Article ; Online: Ligand Desorption and Fragmentation in Oleate-Capped CdSe Nanocrystals under High-Intensity Photoexcitation.

    Harvey, Samantha M / Olshansky, Jacob H / Li, Alice / Panuganti, Shobhana / Kanatzidis, Mercouri G / Hupp, Joseph T / Wasielewski, Michael R / Schaller, Richard D

    Journal of the American Chemical Society

    2024  Volume 146, Issue 6, Page(s) 3732–3741

    Abstract: Semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) offer prospective use as active optical elements in photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, lasers, and photocatalysts due to their tunable optical absorption and emission properties, high stability, and scalable solution ... ...

    Abstract Semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) offer prospective use as active optical elements in photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, lasers, and photocatalysts due to their tunable optical absorption and emission properties, high stability, and scalable solution processing, as well as compatibility with additive manufacturing routes. Over the course of experiments, during device fabrication, or while in use commercially, these materials are often subjected to intense or prolonged electronic excitation and high carrier densities. The influence of such conditions on ligand integrity and binding remains underexplored. Here, we expose CdSe NCs to laser excitation and monitor changes in oleate that is covalently attached to the NC surface using nuclear magnetic resonance as a function of time and laser intensity. Higher photon doses cause increased rates of ligand loss from the particles, with upward of 50% total ligand desorption measured for the longest, most intense excitation. Surprisingly, for a range of excitation intensities, fragmentation of the oleate is detected and occurs concomitantly with formation of aldehydes, terminal alkenes, H
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3155-0
    ISSN 1520-5126 ; 0002-7863
    ISSN (online) 1520-5126
    ISSN 0002-7863
    DOI 10.1021/jacs.3c10232
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