The structure , magnetism and EPR spectra of a (μ-thiophenolato)(μ-pyrazolato-N,N') double bridged dicopper(II) complex

A new binuclear copper(II) complex, namely [Cu2L(pz)(DMSO)], where L = 2,6-bis[(2-phenoxy)iminomethyl]-4-methylthiophenolate(3-) and pz = pyrazolate ligand, has been synthesized by a one-pot synthesis involving copper(II) acetate monohydrate, the S-protected ligand precursor 2-(N,Ndimethylthiocarbamato)-5-methylisophthalaldehyde di-2?-hydroxy anil, (I), and pyrazole, in which a metal-promoted S-deprotection reaction occurs during the formation of the complex. This was characterized by routine physicochemical studies, single crystal X-ray diffraction and electron paramagneticresonance (EPR) techniques. The structure analysis reveals that there are copper centres in two different environments, a slightly distorted square planar and a distorted square-pyramidal, arranged in binuclear units. The EPR study of these binuclear units performed at 9.4 GHz in the temperature range between 4 and 293 K shows an antiferromagnetic interaction between CuII ions, and allows evaluating g factors gx = 2.068(1), gy = 2.091(1) and gz = 2.165(1), with = 2.108(1), an exchange coupling parameter J0 = -26(1) cm−1 (defined as Hex = - J0 S1 S2), and a zero field splitting of the ground triplet state described by D = 86(2) × 10-4 cm-1 and E = -48(3) × 10-4 cm-1. These results are discussed and compared with the existing literature.Fil: Khadir, Narjes. Sharif University of Technology. Department of Chemistry; IránFil: Boghaei, Davar M.. Sharif University of Technology. Department of Chemistry; IránFil: Assoud, Abdeljalil. University of Waterloo. Department of Chemistry; CanadáFil: Nascimento, Otaciro R.. Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Física de São Carlos. Departamento de Física e Ciência Interdisciplinar. Grupo de Biofísica Molecular Sergio Mascarenhas; BrasilFil: Nicotina, Amanda. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Física; BrasilFil: Ghivelder, Luis. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Física; BrasilFil: Calvo, Rafael. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas. Departamento de Física; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Santa Fe. Instituto de Física del Litoral; Argentin

Optimizing NMR quantum information processing via generalized transitionless quantum driving

High-performance quantum information processing requires efficient control of undesired decohering effects, which are present in realistic quantum dynamics. To deal with this issue, a powerful strategy is to employ transitionless quantum driving (TQD), where additional fields are added to speed up the evolution of the quantum system, achieving a desired state in a short time in comparison with the natural decoherence time scales. In this paper, we provide an experimental investigation of the performance of a generalized approach for TQD to implement shortcuts to adiabaticity in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). As a first discussion, we consider a single nuclear spin-$1/2$ system in a time-dependent rotating magnetic field. While the adiabatic dynamics is violated at a resonance situation, the TQD Hamiltonian is shown to be robust against resonance, allowing us to mimic the adiabatic behavior in a fast evolution even under the resonant configurations of the original (adiabatic) Hamiltonian. Moreover, we show that the generalized TQD theory requires less energy resources, with the strength of the magnetic field less than that required by standard TQD. As a second discussion, we analyze the experimental implementation of shortcuts to single-qubit adiabatic gates. By adopting generalized TQD, we can provide feasible time-independent driving Hamiltonians, which are optimized in terms of the number of pulses used to implement the quantum dynamics. The robustness of adiabatic and generalized TQD evolutions against typical decoherence processes in NMR is also analyzed