Publications

2024

A. Chiesa, E. Macaluso, and S. Carretta, Quantum Information Processing with Molecular Nanomagnets: an introduction, Contemporary Phys. (2024), in press.
A. Chiesa, P. Santini, E. Garlatti, F. Luis, and S. Carretta, Molecular Nanomagnets: a viable path toward quantum information processing? Rep. Progr. Phys. 87, 034501 (2024).
S. Chicco, G. Allodi,* A. Chiesa,* E. Garlatti,* C. D. Buch, P. Santini, R. De Renzi, S. Piligkos, and S. Carretta, Proof-of-concept Quantum Simulator based on Molecular Spin Qudits, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 1053-1061 (2024).

2023

H. J. Eckvahl,* N. A. Tcyrulnikov,* A. Chiesa,* J. M. Bradley, R. M. Young, S. Carretta, M. D. Krzyaniak, M. R. Wasielewski, Direct Observation of Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity in Electron Donor-Acceptor Molecules, Science 382, 197-201 (2023).
E. Macaluso, A. Chiesa, P. Santini, R. Bittl, S. Carretta, Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity in Photo-Induced Electron Transfer: investigating charge and spin dynamics in a master equation framework, J. Chem. Phys. 159, 084301 (2023).
L. E. Fischer, A. Chiesa, F. Tacchino, D. J. Egger, S. Carretta, I. Tavernelli, Universal qudit gate synthesis in transmons, PRX Quantum 4, 030327 (2023).
E. Garlatti, A. Albino, S. Chicco, V. H. A. Nguyen, F. Santanni, L. Paolasini, C. Mazzoli, R. Caciuffo, F. Totti, P. Santini, R. Sessoli, A. Lunghi, S. Carretta, The critical role of ultra-low-energy vibrations in the relaxation dynamics of molecular qubits, Nat. Commun. 14, 1653 (2023).
D. Ferrari, S. Carretta, M. Amoretti, A Modular Quantum Compilation Framework for Distributed Quantum Computing, IEEE trans. quantum eng 4, 2500213 (2023).
A. Chiesa, S. Roca, S. Chicco, M. C. de Ory, A. Gomez-Leon, A. Gomez, D. Zueco, F. Luis, S. Carretta, Blueprint of a Molecular Spin Quantum Processor, Phys. Rev. Appl. 19, 064060 (2023).
A. Chiesa, A. Privitera, E. Macaluso, M. Mannini, R. Bittl, R. Naaman, M. Wasielewski, R. Sessoli, S. Carretta, Chirality-induced spin selectivity: an enabling technology for quantum applications, Adv. Mater. 35, 2300472 (2023).

2022

M. Chizzini, L. Crippa, A. Chiesa, F. Tacchino, F. Petiziol, I. Tavernelli, P. Santini, S. Carretta, Molecular nanomagnets with competing interactions as optimal units for qudit-based quantum computation, Phys. Rev. Res. 4, 043135 (2022).
A. Privitera, E. Macaluso, A. Chiesa, A. Gabbani, D. Faccio, D. Giuri, M. Briganti, N. Giaconi, F. Santanni, N. Jarmouni, L. Poggini, M. Mannini, M. Chiesa, C. Tomasini, F. Pineider, E. Salvadori, S. Carretta, R. Sessoli, Direct Detection of Spin Polarization in Photoinduced Charge Transfer through a Chiral Bridge, Chem. Sci. 13, 12208-12218 (2022).
S. Lockyer, A. Chiesa, A. Brookfield, G. Timco, G. Whitehead, E. McInness, S. Carretta, R. E. P. Winpenny, Five-spin supramolecule for simulating quantum decoherence of Bell states, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144, 16086 (2022).
V. Rollano, M. C. de Ory, C. D. Buch, M. Rubín-Osanz, D. Zueco, C. Sánchez-Azqueta, A. Chiesa, D. Granados, S. Carretta, A. Gomez, S. Piligkos, F. Luis, High cooperativity coupling to nuclear spins on a circuit QED architecture, Commun. Phys. 5, 246 (2022).
C. J. Rogers, D. Asthana, A. Brookfield, A. Chiesa, G. A. Timco, D. Collison, L. S. Natrajan, S. Carretta, R. E. P. Winpenny, A. Bowen, Modelling Conformational Flexibility in a Spectrally Addressable Molecular Multi-Qubit Model System, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 61, e202207947 (2022).
A. Chiesa, F. Petiziol, M. Chizzini, P. Santini and S. Carretta, Theoretical Design of Optimal Molecular Qudits for Quantum Error Correction, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 6468-6474 (2022).
S. Chicco, E. Garlatti, G. Allodi, A. Chiesa, M. Atzori, L. Sorace, R. Sessoli, S. Carretta, Coherent manipulation of molecular Qudits by broadband NMR, Nuovo Cimento 45 C 163 (2022).
M. Chizzini, L. Crippa, L. Zaccardi, E. Macaluso, S. Carretta, A. Chiesa, P. Santini, Quantum error correction with molecular spin qudits, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 24, 20030-20039 (2022).

2021

L. Crippa, F. Tacchino, M. Chizzini, A. Aita, M. Grossi, A. Chiesa, P. Santini, I. Tavernelli and S. Carretta, Simulating static and dynamic properties of magnetic molecules with prototype quantum computers, Magnetochemistry 7, 117 (2021).
E. Garlatti, A. Chiesa, P. Bonfà, E. Macaluso, I. J. Onurah, V. S. Parmar, Y.-S. Ding, Y.-Z. Zheng, M. Giansiracusa, D. Reta, E. Pavarini, T. Guidi, D. P. Mills, N. F. Chilton, R. E. P. Winpenny, P. Santini, S. Carretta, A cost-effective semi ab-initio approach to model relaxation in rare-earth single-molecule magnets, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12, 8826-8832 (2021).
F. Petiziol, M. Sameti, S. Carretta, S. Wimberger, F. Mintert, Quantum Simulation of Three-Body Interactions in Weakly Driven Quantum Systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 250504 (2021).
A. Chiesa, M. Chizzini, E. Garlatti, E. Salvadori, F. Tacchino, P. Santini, I. Tavernelli, R. Bittl, M. Chiesa, R. Sessoli, and S. Carretta, Assessing the nature of chiral-induced spin-selectivity by magnetic resonance, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12, 6341-6347 (2021).
S. Lockyer, A. Chiesa, G. A. Timco, E. J. L. McInnes, I. Victorica-Yrezabal, S. Carretta, R. E. P. Winpenny, Targeting Molecular Quantum Memory with Embedded Error Correction, Chem. Sci. 12, 9104 (2021).
S. Chicco, A. Chiesa, G. Allodi, E. Garlatti, M. Atzori, L. Sorace, R. De Renzi, R. Sessoli and S. Carretta, Controlled coherent dynamics of [VO(TPP)], a prototype molecular nuclear qudit with an electronic ancilla, Chem. Sci. 12, 12046 (2021).
M. Atzori, E. Garlatti, G. Allodi, S. Chicco, A. Chiesa, A. Albino, R. De Renzi, E. Salvadori, M. Chiesa, R. Sessoli, S. Carretta and L. Sorace, Radiofrequency to microwave Coherent Manipulation of an Organometallic Electronic Spin Qubit coupled to a Nuclear Qudit, Inorg. Chem. 60, 11273-11286 (2021).
F. Petiziol, A. Chiesa, S. Wimberger, P. Santini, S. Carretta, Counteracting dephasing in Molecular Nanomagnets by optimized qudit encodings, npj Quantum Information 7, 133 (2021).
S. Carretta, D. Zueco, A. Chiesa, A. Gomez-Leon, F. Luis, A perspective on scaling up quantum computation with molecular spins, Appl. Phys. Lett. 118, 240501 (2021).
F. Tacchino, A. Chiesa, R. Sessoli, I. Tavernelli, S. Carretta, Molecular spin qudit for simulation of light-matter interaction, J. Mater. Chem. C 9, 10266 (2021).
A. Chiesa, F. Petiziol, E. Macaluso, S. Wimberger, P. Santini, S. Carretta, Embedded quantum-error correction and controlled-phase gate for molecular spin qubits, AIP Advances 11, 025134 (2021).

2020

A. Chiesa*, E. Macaluso*, F. Petiziol*, S. Wimberger, P. Santini, S. Carretta, Molecular Nanomagnets as Qubits with Embedded Quantum-Error Correction, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 8610 (2020).
E. Macaluso, M. Rubìn, D. Aguilà, A. Chiesa, L. A. Barrios, J. I. Martinez, P. J. Alonso, O. Roubeau, F. Luis, G. Aromì, S. Carretta, A heterometallic [LnLn'Ln] lanthanide complex as a qubit with embedded quantum error correction, Chem. Sci. 11, 10337 (2020).
A. Chiesa, F. Cugini, R. Hussain, E. Macaluso, G. Allodi, E. Garlatti, M. Giansiracusa, C. A. P. Goodwin, F. Ortu, D. Reta, J. M. Skelton, T. Guidi, P. Santini, M. Solzi, R. De Renzi, D. P. Mills, N. F. Chilton, S. Carretta, Understanding magnetic relaxation in single-ion magnets with high blocking temperature, Phys. Rev. B 101, 174402 (2020).
M. Amoretti, S. Carretta, Entanglement Verification in Quantum Networks With Tampered Nodes, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 38, 3, 598-604 (2020).
A. J. Lewis, E. Garlatti, F. Cugini, M. Solzi, M. Zeller, S. Carretta, C. M. Zaleski, Slow Magnetic Relaxation of a 12-Metallacrown-4 Complex with a Manganese(III)–Copper(II) Heterometallic Ring Motif, Inorg. Chem. 59, 17, 11894–11900 (2020).
C. A. Collett, P. Santini, S. Carretta, J. R. Friedman, Constructing clock-transition-based two-qubit gates from dimers of molecular nanomagnets, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032037 (2020).
E. Garlatti, G. Allodi, S. Bordignon, L. Bordonali. G. A. Timco, R. E. P. Winpenny, A. Lascialfari, R. De Renzi, S. Carretta, Breaking the ring: 53Cr-NMR on the Cr8Cd molecular nanomagnet, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 32, 244003 (2020).
F. Tacchino, A. Chiesa, S. Carretta, D. Gerace, Quantum Computers as Universal Quantum Simulators: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives, Adv. Quantum Technol. 3, 3, 1900052 (2020).
E. Garlatti, L. Tesi, A. Lunghi, M. Atzori, D. J. Voneshen, P. Santini, S. Sanvito, T. Guidi, R. Sessoli, S. Carretta, Unveiling phonons in a molecular qubit with four-dimensional inelastic neutron scattering and density functional theory, Nat. Commun. 11, 1751 (2020).

2019

A. Chiesa, E. Macaluso, P. Santini, S. Carretta and E. Pavarini, First-principles many-body models for electron transport through molecular nanomagnets, Phys. Rev. B 99, 235145 (2019).
F. Tacchino, A. Chiesa, M. D. LaHaye, I. Tavernelli, S. Carretta, D. Gerace, Digital Quantum Simulations of Spin Models on Hybrid Platform and Near-Term Quantum Processors, Proceedings 12, 24 (2019).
A. Chiesa, F. Tacchino, M. Grossi, P. Santini, I. Tavernelli, D. Gerace and S. Carretta, Quantum hardware simulating four-dimensional inelastic neutron scattering, Nature Phys. 15, 455 (2019).
E. Garlatti, A. Chiesa, T. Guidi, G. Amoretti, P. Santini and S. Carretta, Unravelling the Spin Dynamics of Molecular Nanomagnets with Four-Dimensional Inelastic Neutron Scattering, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 8, 1106-1118 (2019).
M. Amoretti, M. Pizzoni, S. Carretta, Enhancing distributed functional monitoring with quantum protocols, Quantum Inf Process 18, 371 (2019).
E. Lucaccini, L. Sorace, F. Adelnia, S. Sanna, P. Arosio, M. Mariani, S. Carretta, Z. Salman, F. Borsa, A. Lascialfari, NMR and μ+SR detection of unconventional spin dynamics in Er(trensal) and Dy(trensal) molecular magnets, Phys. Rev. B. 100, 174416 (2019).
F. Tacchino, M. Grossi, D. Gerace, A. Chiesa, P. Santini, S. Carretta, I. Tavernelli, Efficient Quantum Simulation of Dynamic Correlations on Superconducting Quantum Computers, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (2019).
F. Petiziol, B. Dive, S. Carretta, R. Mannella, F. Mintert, S. Wimberger, Accelerating adiabatic protocols for entangling two qubits in circuit QED, Phys. Rev. A 99, 042315 (2019).

2018

S. Ansbro, E. Moreno-Pineda, W. Yu, J. Ollivier, H. Mutka, M. Ruben and A. Chiesa, Magnetic properties of Transition Metal Dimers probed by Inelastic Neutron Scattering, Dalton Trans. 47, 11953 (2018).
R. Hussain, G. Allodi, A. Chiesa, E. Garlatti, D. Mitcov, A. Konstantatos, K. S. Pedersen, R. De Renzi, S. Piligkos and S. Carretta, Coherent Manipulation of a Molecular Ln-based Nuclear Qudit Coupled to an Electron Qubit, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 9814 (2018).
M. Atzori, A. Chiesa, E. Morra, M. Chiesa, L. Sorace, S. Carretta and R. Sessoli, A Two-Qubit Molecular Architecture for Electron-mediated Nuclear Quantum Simulation, Chem. Sci. 9, 6183 (2018).
F. Tacchino, A. Chiesa, M. D. LaHaye, S. Carretta and D. Gerace, Electromechanical Quantum Simulators, Phys. Rev. B 97, 214302 (2018).
E. Garlatti, T. Guidi, A. Chiesa, S. Ansbro, M. L. Baker, J. Ollivier, H. Mutka, G. A. Timco, I. Vitorica-Yrezabal, E. Pavarini, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, R. E. P. Winpenny and S. Carretta, Anisotropy of CoII transferred to the Cr₇Co polymetallic cluster via strong exchange interactions, Chem. Sci. 9, 3555 (2018).
M. J. Giansiracusa, E. Moreno-Pineda, R. Hussain, R. Marx, M. M. Prada, P. Neugebauer, S. Al-Badran, D. Collison, F. Tuna, J. van Slageren, S. Carretta, T. Guidi, E. J. L. McInnes, R. E. P. Winpenny, N. F. Chilton, Measurement of Magnetic Exchange in Asymmetric Lanthanide Dimetallics: Toward a Transferable Theoretical Framework,

2017

A. Chiesa, T. Guidi, S. Carretta, S. Ansbro, G. A. Timco, I. Victorica-Yrezabal, E. Garlatti, G. Amoretti, R. E. P. Winpenny, and P. Santini, Magnetic exchange interactions in the molecular nanomagnet Mn₁₂, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217202 (2017).
M. Theisen, F. Petiziol, S. Carretta, P. Santini, S. Wimberger, Superadiabatic driving of a three-level quantum system, Phys. Rev. A 96, 013431 (2017).
E. Garlatti, T. Guidi, S. Ansbro, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, J. Ollivier, H. Mutka, G. Timco, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, G. F. S. Whitehead, R. E. P. Winpenny, S. Carretta, Portraying entanglement between molecular qubits with four-dimensional inelastic neutron scattering, Nat. Commun 8, 14543 (2017).

2016

A. Chiesa, S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, and E. Pavarini, Many-body ab initio study of antiferromagnetic Cr₇M molecular rings, Phys. Rev. B 90, 224422 (2016).
J. Ferrando-Soria, S. A. Magee, A. Chiesa, S. Carretta, P. Santini, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, F. Tuna, S. Sproules, K. M. Lancaster, A.-L. Barra, G. A. Timco, E. J. L. McInnes and R. E. P. Winpenny, Switchable Interaction in Molecular Double Qubits, Chem. 1, 727 (2016).
A. Chiesa, P. Santini and S. Carretta, Supramolecular Complexes for Quantum Simulation, Magnetochemistry 2, 37 (2016).
R. J. Woolfson, G. A. Timco, A. Chiesa, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, F. Tuna, T. Guidi, P. Santini, S. Carretta and R. E.P. Winpenny, [CrF(O2CtBu)2]9: Synthesis and Characterization of a Regular Homometallic Ring with an Odd Number of Metal Centers and Electrons, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 128, 9002 (2016).
E. Garlatti, S. Bordignon, S. Carretta, G. Allodi, G. Amoretti, R. De Renzi, A. Lascialfari, Y. Furukawa, G. A. Timco, R. Woolfson, R. E. P. Winpenny, P. Santini, Relaxation dynamics in the frustrated Cr9 antiferromagnetic ring probed by NMR, Phys. Rev. B 93, 024424 (2016).
A. Chiesa, P. Santini, D. Gerace and S. Carretta, Long-lasting hybrid quantum information processing in a cavity-protection regime, Phys. Rev. B 93, 094432 (2016).
J. Ferrando-Soria, E. Moreno-Pineda, A. Chiesa, A. Fernandez, S. Magee, S. Carretta, P. Santini, I. Vitorica-Yrzebal, F. Tuna, G. A. Timco, E. J. L. McInnes and R. E. P. Winpenny, A modular design of molecular qubits to implement universal quantum gates, Nat. Commun. 7, 11377 (2016).
G. Timco, S. Marocchi, E. Garlatti, C. Barker, M. Albring, V. Bellini, F. Manghi, E. J. L. McInnes, R. G. Pritchard, F. Tuna, W. Wernsdorfer, G. Lorusso, G. Amoretti, S. Carretta, M. Affronte, R. E. P. Winpenny, Heterodimers of heterometallic rings, Dalton Trans. 45, 16610-16615 (2016).
M. L. Baker, T. Lancaster, A. Chiesa, G. Amoretti, P. J. Baker, C. Barker, S. J. Blundell, S. Carretta, D. Collison, H. U. Gudel, T. Guidi, E. J. L. McInnes, J. S. M¨oller, H. Mutka, J. Ollivier, F. L. Pratt, P. Santini, F. Tuna, P. L. W. Tregenna-Piggott, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, G. A. Timco and R. E. P. Winpenny, Studies of a Large Odd-Numbered Odd-Electron Metal Ring: Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Muon Spin Relaxation Spectroscopy of Cr₈Mn, Chem. Eur. J. 22, 1779 (2016).