Emergent quantum matter in multinuclear coupled coordination clusters

该项目旨在了解拓扑自旋液体等新型量子态如何出现以及如何控制这些新出现的性质。涌现是一种观察，即物体的集合可以显示出与单个物体非常不同的属性：水分子不是湿的;神经元没有意识。理解和控制材料的涌现特性具有巨大的潜在应用，从电力的无损传输到下一代计算机。要研究的磁系统是一些最简单的系统，显示涌现量子行为。除了这些问题的内在科学价值之外，该项目试图设计的奇异状态在量子计算机中有潜在的应用。

This project aims to understand how novel quantum states, such as topological spin liquids, emerge and how to control these emergent properties. Emergence is the observation that collections of objects can display very different properties from the individual objects: a water molecule is not wet; a neuron is not conscious. Understanding and controlling the emergent properties of materials has enormous potential applications from the lossless transport of electricity to next-generation computers. The magnetic systems to be studied are some of the simplest systems that show emergent quantum behaviours. Beyond the intrinsic scientific value of the questions, the exotic states the project seeks to engineer have potential applications in quantum computers.