Biography
[Biography, english version]
Subjects taught and teaching methods
Academic training
- Licenciado en Química. Universitat de València. 23/08/1999 (Diploma / Degree / Activities).
- Doctor en Química. Universitat de València. 27/07/2004 (Ph.D.).
Journal Publications
- Salvador Cardona-Serra; Lorena E. Rosaleny; Silvia Giménez-Santamarina; Luis Martínez-Gil; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2021) Towards peptide-based tunable multistate memristive materials. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. ISSN: 1463-9076
- Luis Escalera-Moreno; José J Baldoví; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado (2020) Design of high-temperature f-block molecular nanomagnets through the control of vibration-induced spin relaxation. Chemical Science, 11, pp. 1593 - 1598 . ISSN: 2041-6520
- S. M. Giménez-Santamarina; S. Cardona-Serra; J. M. Clemente-Juan; A. Gaita-Ariño; E. Coronado (2020) Exploiting clock transitions for the chemical design of resilient molecular spin qubits. Chemical Science, 11(39), pp. 10718 - 10728 . ISSN: 2041-6520
- Ramón Torres-Cavanillas; Garin Escorcia-Ariza; Isaac Brotons-Alcázar; Roger Sanchis-Gual; Prakash Chandra Mondal; Lorena E. Rosaleny; Silvia Giménez-Santamarina; Michele Sessolo; Marta Galbiati; Sergio Tatay; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Alicia Forment-Aliaga; Salvador Cardona-Serra (2020) Reinforced room-temperature spin filtering in chiral paramagnetic metallopeptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(41), pp. 17572 - 17580 . ISSN: 0002-7863
- A. Gaita-Ariño; F. Luis; S. Hill; E. Coronado (2019) Molecular spins for quantum computation. Nature Chemistry, 11, pp. 301 - 309 . ISSN: 1755-4330
- Lorena E Rosaleny; Kirill Zinovjev; Iñaki Tuñón; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2019) A first peek into sub-picosecond dynamics of spin energy levels in magnetic biomolecules. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21, pp. 10908 - 10913 . ISSN: 1463-9076
- Qing Zhang; Michael L. Baker; Shiqi Li; Myriam P. Sarachik; José J. Baldoví; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado; Dimitris I. Alexandropoulos; Theocharis C. Stamatatos (2019) Experimental determination of single molecule toroic behaviour in a Dy8 single molecule magnet. Nanoscale, 11, pp. 15131 - 15138 . ISSN: 2040-3364
- Luis Escalera-Moreno; José J. Baldoví; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado (2019) Exploring the High-Temperature Frontier in Molecular Nanomagnets: From Lanthanides to Actinides. Inorganic Chemistry, 58, pp. 11883 - 11892 . ISSN: 0020-1669
- Luis Escalera-Moreno; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado (2019) Decoherence from dipolar interspin interactions in molecular spin qubits. Physical Review B, 100, pp. 064405-1 - 064405-9 . ISSN: 1098-0121
- Silvia Giménez-Santamarina; Salvador Cardona-Serra; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2019) Theoretical insights on the importance of anchoring vs molecular geometry in magnetic molecules acting as junctions. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. ISSN: 0304-8853
- A. Ullah; J. Cerdá; J. J. Baldoví; S. A. Varganov; J. Aragó; A. Gaita-Ariño (2019) In silico molecular engineering of dysprosocenium-based complexes to decouple spin energy levels from molecular vibrations. Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, pp. 7678 - 7683 . ISSN: 1948-7185
- L. Escalera-Moreno; J. J. Baldoví; A. Gaita-Ariño; E. Coronado (2018) Spin states, vibrations and spin relaxation in molecular nanomagnets and spin qubits: a critical perspective. Chemical Science, 9, pp. 3265 - 3275 . ISSN: 2041-6520
- S. Cardona-Serra, A. Gaita-Ariño, E. Navarro-Moratalla, S. Sanvito (2018) Proposal for a Dual Spin Filter Based on [VO(C3S4O)2]2-. Journal of physical chemistry. C.. ISSN: 1932-7447
- J. A. Carrasco; S. Cardona-Serra; J. M. Clemente-Juan; A. Gaita-Ariño; G. Abellán; E. Coronado (2018) Deciphering the Role of Dipolar Interactions in Magnetic Layered Double Hydroxides. Inorganic Chemistry, 57, pp. 2013 - 2022 . ISSN: 0020-1669
- S. G. Miralles; A. Bedoya-Pinto; J. J. Baldoví; W. Cañón Mancisidor; Y. Prado; H. Prima Garcia; A. Gaita-Ariño; G. Mínguez Espallargas; L. E. Hueso; E. Coronado (2018) Sublimable chloroquinolinate lanthanoid single-ion magnets deposited on ferromagnetic electrodes. Chemical Science, 9, pp. 199 - 208 . ISSN: 2041-6520
- Salvador Cardona-Serra ; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2018) Vanadyl dithiolate single molecule transistors: the next spintronic frontier?. Dalton Transactions, 47, pp. 5533 - 5537 . ISSN: 1477-9226
- Lorena E Rosaleny; Salvador Cardona-Serra; Luis Escalera-Moreno; José J Baldoví; Violetta Gołȩbiewska; Karolina Wlazło; Patricia Casino; Helena Prima-Garcia; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado (2018) Peptides as Versatile Platforms for Quantum Computing. Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9(16), pp. 4522 - 4526 . ISSN: 1948-7185
- W. Cañon-Mancisidor; S. G. Miralles; J.J. Baldoví; G. Mínguez Espallargas; A. Gaita-Ariño; Coronado Miralles, Eugenio (2018) Sublimable Single Ion Magnets Based on Lanthanoid Quinolinate Complexes: The Role of Intermolecular Interactions on Their Thermal Stability. Inorganic Chemistry, 57, pp. 14170 - 14177 . ISSN: 0020-1669
- Kwang Soo Lim; José J. Baldoví; ShangDa Jiang; Bong Ho Koo; Dong Won Kang; Woo Ram Lee; Eui Kwan Koh; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado; Michael Slota; Lapo Bogani; Chang Seop Hong (2017) Custom Coordination Environments for Lanthanoids: Tripodal Ligands Achieve Near-Perfect Octahedral Coordination for Two Dysprosium-Based Molecular Nanomagnets. Inorganic Chemistry. ISSN: 0020-1669
- M. D. Jenkins; Y. Duan; B. Diosdado; J. J: García-Ripoll; A. Gaita-Ariño; C. Giménez-Saiz; P. J. Alonso; E. Coronado; F. Luis (2017) Coherent manipulation of three-qubit states in a molecular single-ion magnet. Physical Review B, 95, pp. 064423-1 - 064423-8 . ISSN: 2469-9950
- L. Escalera-Moreno; N. Suaud; A. Gaita-Ariño; E. Coronado (2017) Determining Key Local Vibrations in the Relaxation of Molecular Spin Qubits and Single-Molecule Magnets. Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8, pp. 1695 - 1700 . ISSN: 1948-7185
- S. Cardona-Serra; A. Gaita-Ariño, M. Stamenova, S. Sanvito (2017) Theoretical evaluation of [VIV(α-C3S5)(3)](2-) as Nuclear-Spin-Sensitive Single-Molecule Spin Transistor. Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(13), pp. 3056 - 3060 . ISSN: 1948-7185
- A. Palii; S. Aldoshin; B. Tsukerblat; J. M. Clemente-Juan; A. Gaita-Ariño; E. Coronado (2017) Electric field controllable magnetic coupling of localized spins mediated by itinerant electrons: a toy model. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(38), pp. 26098 - 26106 . ISSN: 1463-9076
- Lorena E. Rosaleny; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2016) Theoretical evaluation of lanthanide binding tags as biomolecular handles for the organization of single ion magnets and spin qubits. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 3, pp. 61 - 66 . ISSN: 2052-1545
- Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Helena Prima-García; Salvador Cardona-Serra; Luis Escalera-Moreno; Lorena E. Rosaleny; José J. Baldoví (2016) Coherence and organisation in lanthanoid complexes: from single ion magnets to spin qubits. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 3(5), pp. 568 - 577 . ISSN: 2052-1545
- S. Cardona-Serra; L. Escalera-Moreno; J.J. Baldoví; A. Gaita-Ariño; J.M. Clemente-Juan; E. Coronado (2016) SIMPRE1. 2: Considering the hyperfine and quadrupolar couplings and the nuclear spin bath decoherence. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 37, pp. 1238 - 1244 . ISSN: 0192-8651
- M. Shiddiq, D. Komijani, Y. Duan, A. Gaita-Ariño, E. Coronado, S. Hill (2016) Enhancing coherence in molecular spin qubits via atomic clock transitions. Nature, 531, pp. 348 - 351 . ISSN: 0028-0836
- K. Soo Lim; J.J. Baldoví; W. Ram Lee; J. Hwa Song; S. Won Yoon; B. Jin Suh; E. Coronado; A. Gaita-Ariño; C. Seop Hong (2016) Switching of Slow Magnetic Relaxation Dynamics in Mononuclear Dysprosium (III) Compound with Charge Density. Inorganic Chemistry, 55, pp. 5398 - 5404 . ISSN: 0020-1669
- José J. Baldoví; Yan Duan; Carlos Bustos; Salvador Cardona-Serra; Pierre Gouzerh; Richard Villanneau; Geoffrey Gontard; Juan M. Clemente Juan; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Carlos Giménez-Saiz; Anna Proust; Eugenio Coronado (2016) Single ion magnets based on lanthanoid Polyoxomolybdate complexes. Dalton Transactions, 45(42), pp. 16653 - 16660 . ISSN: 1477-9226
- José J Baldoví; Yan Duan; Roser Morales; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eliseo Ruiz; Eugenio Coronado (2016) Rational Design of Lanthanoid Single-Ion Magnets: Predictive Power of the Theoretical Models. Chemistry-A European Journal, 22(38), pp. 13532 - 13539 . ISSN: 0947-6539
- MD Jenkins; Y Duan; B Diosdado; JJ García-Ripoll; A Gaita-Ariño; C Giménez-Saiz; PJ Alonso; E Coronado; F Luis (2017) Coherent manipulation of three-qubit states in a molecular single-ion magnet. Physical Review B, 95(6), p. 064423 . ISSN: 2469-9950
- J. López-Cabrelles; L. Escalera-Moreno; Z. Hu; H. Prima-García; G. Mínguez Espallargas; A. Gaita-Ariño; E. Coronado (2021) Near Isotropic D4d Spin Qubits as Nodes of a Gd(III)-Based Metal-Organic Framework. Inorganic Chemistry, 60(12), pp. 8575 - 8580 . ISSN: 0020-1669
- L Escalera-Moreno; N Suaud; A Gaita-Ariño; E Coronado (2017) Determining Key Local Vibrations in the Relaxation of Molecular Spin Qubits and Single Molecule Magnets. Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(7), pp. 1695 - 1700 . ISSN: 1948-7185
- Aman Ullah; José J. Baldoví; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado (2021) Insights on the coupling between vibronically active molecular vibrations and lattice phonons in molecular nanomagnets. Dalton Transactions, 50, pp. 11071 - 11076 . ISSN: 1477-9226
- Ziqui Hu, Aman Ullah, Helena Prima-Garcia, Sang-Hyun Chin, Yuanyuan Wang, Juan Aragó, Zujin Shi, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Eugenio Coronado (2021) Binding Sites, Vibrations and Spin-Lattice Relaxation Times in Europium(II)-Based Metallofullerene Spin Qubits. Chemistry-A European Journal, 27(52), pp. 13242 - 13248 . ISSN: 0947-6539
- Avery L. Blockmon; Aman Ullah; Kendall D. Hughey; Yan Duan; Kenneth R. O'Neal; Mykhaylo Ozerov; José J. Baldoví; Juan Aragó; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado; Janice L. Musfeldt (2021) Spectroscopic analysis of vibronic relaxation pathways in molecular spin qubit [Ho(W5O18)2]9−: sparse spectra are key. Inorganic Chemistry, 60(18), pp. 14096 - 14104 . ISSN: 0020-1669
- J. Liu; J. Mrozek; A. Ullah; Y. Duan; J. J. Baldoví; E. Coronado; A. Gaita-Ariño; A. Ardavan (2021) Quantum coherent spin-electric control in a molecular nanomagnet at clock transitions. Nature Physics(17), pp. 1205 - 1209 . ISSN: 1745-2473
- J. L. Musfeldt; Z. Liu; D. López-Alcalá; Y. Duan; A. Gaita-Ariño; J. J. Baldoví; E. Coronado (2023) Vibronic relaxation pathways in molecular spin qubit Na9[Ho(W5O18)2]·35H2O under pressure. Magnetochemistry, 9(2), p. 53 . ISSN: 2312-7481
- Javier López-Cabrelles; Luis Escalera-Moreno; Ziqi Hu; Helena Prima-García; Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado (2021) Near Isotropic D4d Spin Qubits as Nodes of a Gd(III)-Based Metal-Organic Framework. Inorganic Chemistry, 60(12), pp. 8575 - 8580 . ISSN: 0020-1669
- Alicia Forment-Aliaga ; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2022) Chiral, magnetic, molecule-based materials: A chemical path toward spintronics and quantum nanodevices. Journal of Applied Physics, 132(18), pp. 180901-1 - 180901-13 . ISSN: 0021-8979
- Aman Ullah; Ziqi Hu; Jesús Cerdá; Juan Aragó; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2022) Electrical two-qubit gates within a pair of clock-qubit magnetic molecules. Npj Quantum Information(8) . ISSN: 2056-6387
- Duan, Yan; Rosaleny, Lorena E.; Coutinho, Joana T.; Giménez-Santamarina, Silvia; Scheie, Allen; Baldoví, José J.; Cardona-Serra, Salvador; Gaita-Ariño, Alejandro (2022) Data-driven design of molecular nanomagnets. Nature Communications, 13(1), p. 7626 . ISSN: 2041-1723
- Tian Pei; James O. Thomas; Simen Sopp; Ming-Yee Tsang; Nicola Dotti; Jonathan Baugh; Nicholas F. Chilton; Salvador Cardona-Serra; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Harry L. Anderson; Lapo Bogani (2022) Exchange-induced spin polarization in a single magnetic molecule junction. Nature Communications, 13, p. 4506 . ISSN: 2041-1723
- Krishnendu Kundu; Jia Chen; Silas Hoffman; Jonathan Marbey; Dorsa Komijani; Yan Duan; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; John Stanton; Xiaoguang Zhang; Hai-Ping Cheng; Stephen Hill (2023) Electron-nuclear decoupling at a spin clock transition. Communications Physics, 6, p. 38 . ISSN: 2399-3650
- I. Gimeno; V. Rollano; D. Zueco; Y. Duan; M. C. de Ory; A. Gomez; A. Gaita-Ariño; C. Sánchez-Azqueta; T. Astner; D. Granados; S. Hill; J. Majer; E. Coronado; F. Luis (2023) Optimal coupling of HoW10 molecular magnets to superconducting circuits near spin clock transitions. Physical Review Applied, 20(4) . ISSN: 2331-7019
- Gerliz M. Gutiérrez-Finol; Silvia Giménez-Santamarina; Ziqi Hu; Lorena E. Rosaleny; Salvador Cardona-Serra; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2023) Lanthanide molecular nanomagnets as probabilistic bits. Npj Computational Materials, 9, p. 196 . ISSN: 2057-3960
- Ziqi Hu; Yuanyuan Wang; Aman Ullah; Gerliz M Gutiérrez-Finol; Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto; Pierluigi Gargiani; Dier Shi; Shangfeng Yang; Zujin Shi; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Eugenio Coronado (2023) High-temperature magnetic blocking in a monometallic dysprosium azafullerene single-molecule magnet. Chem, 9(12), pp. 3613 - 3622 . ISSN: 2451-9294
- Vsevolod D Dergachev; Daria D Nakritskaia; Yuri Alexeev; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Sergey A Varganov (2023) Analytical nonadiabatic coupling and state-specific energy gradient for the crystal field Hamiltonian describing lanthanide single-ion magnets. Journal of Chemical Physics, 159, p. 184111 . ISSN: 0021-9606
- Gerliz M. Gutiérrez-Finol; Aman Ullah; María González-Béjar; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2025) A call for frugal modelling: two case studies involving molecular spin dynamics. Green Chemistry, 27, pp. 3167 - 3177 . ISSN: 1463-9262
- Walter Cañón-Mancisidor; Christopher González Ponce; Lorena E. Rosaleny; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2025) SIMDAVIS 1.2: phosphonates are outstanding SIM ligands. Crown ethers are not. Dalton Transactions, 54, pp. 10873 - 10882 . ISSN: 1477-9226
- Corina Rodríguez-Esteban; Estibaliz Ruiz-Bilbao; Janire Bustamante-Fernández; Floriana Tuna; Luis Lezama; Aaron Mailman; Aman Ullah; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Beñat Artetxe; Mathieu Gonidec; Itziar Oyarzabal (2025) Coherent Spin Manipulation in Mononuclear Gadolinium-Substituted Polyoxometalate-Organic Hybrids. Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters. ISSN: 1948-7185
- Xinyi Han, Zhanxin Jiang; Ziqi Hu; Yang-Rong Yao; Aman Ullah; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño; Wensheng Yan; Yalin Lu; Shangfeng Yang (2025) Anomalous Magnetic Hysteresis up to 20 K in a Non-Kramers Light-Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnet. Angewandte Chemie. ISSN: 1433-7851
Other Tasks
- Reviewer for: Nature Communications - - - Journal of the American Chemical Society - - - Chemical Science - - - ACS Nano - - - Advanced Functional Materials - - - Chemistry - A European Journal - - - Inorganic Chemistry - - - Chemical Communications - - - The Journal of Physical Chemistry - - - Dalton Transactions - - - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials - - - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics - - -Scientific Reports - - - iScience - - - Results in Physics - - - Annalen der Physik - - - Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry - - - New Journal of Chemistry - - - Chemical Physics Letters - - - Inorganica Chimica Acta. ().
- Positive evaluation of 3 · 6-year blocks of research activity (2000-2005, 2006-2011, 2012-2017). ().
- Master in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 3 years (2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021), 30h/course: 'Introduction to the Master on Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Basic concepts'. ().
- 20h of laboratory module 'Operaciones Básicas de Laboratorio'. ().
- 16h of laboratory module 'Química Inorgánica Avanzada'. ().
- Awarded the 'Premio al Mejor Artículo Divulgativo en las Publicaciones de la RSEF' by the Real Sociedad Española de Física. ().
- l published the following teaching materials oriented towards laboratories in high school and first year Chemistry degree, in the section 'Enseñanza de la Química' of 'Anales de química': 'La aproximación crítica a las pseudociencias como ejercicio didáctico: homeopatía y diluciones sucesivas' (Gonzalo Abelán, Lorena E. Rosaleny, Jesús Carnicer, José J. Baldoví y Alejandro Gaita-Ariño) An. Quím. 110 (3), 2014, 211-217. ().
- Collaboration with the Cátedra de Cultura Científica of the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU): publication of three scientist profiles in 'Mujeres con Ciencia': https://mujeresconciencia.com/2017/01/31/las-moleculas-magneticas-de-roberta-sessoli/ https://mujeresconciencia.com/2018/01/31/danna-freedman-como-usar-moleculas-para-proteger-la-informacion-cuantica/ https://mujeresconciencia.com/2019/02/19/rosario-domingo-sebastian-una-generacion-mas-de-pioneras-en-nuestras-universidades/. ().
- Publication of an scientific outreach article in the (paper) magazine 'Diagonal': Alejandro Gaita Ariño, Charlatanes que llaman cuántica a lo que no lo es, nº 171, p. 24 (2012). ().
Other publications
- JJ Baldoví; S Cardona-Serra; A Gaita-Ariño; E Coronado (2017). Chapter Eight-Design of Magnetic Polyoxometalates for Molecular Spintronics and as Spin Qubits Advances in Inorganic Chemistry . Volume. 69 . (pp. 213 - 249) .
Previous Tasks
- Collaboration grant. Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry / UVEG. 01/09/1999 - 31/08/2000.
- Predoctoral grant. Dept. of Inorg. Chem. & ICMol / UVEG. 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2003.
- Non-doctor researcher. Institute for Molecular Science (ICMol,UVEG). 01/01/2004 - 30/06/2004.
- Researcher Doctor. ICMol / UVEG. 01/08/2004 - 30/06/2007.
- Postdoctoral Fellow contract, paid by the Generalitat Valenciana. Instituto de Ciencia Molecular / UVEG. 01/07/2007 - 31/08/2007.
- Postdoctoral Fellow contract, paid by the Ministerio de Innovacion y cultura. Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics; U. of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). 01/09/2007 - 31/08/2008.
- IOF Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics; U. of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). 01/09/2008 - 31/08/2010.
- IOF Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Valencia. 01/09/2010 - 31/08/2011.
- Researcher Doctor. Institute for Molecular Science / UVEG. 01/09/2011 - 30/11/2013.
- Senior postdoc paid by the Spanish 'Ramón y Cajal' program. ICMol / UVEG. 01/12/2014 - 30/11/2019.
Other Achievements
- Artículo de divulgación en 'Diagonal': Alejandro Gaita Ariño, Charlatanes que llaman cuántica a lo que no lo es, nº 171, p. 24 (2012). (Other Merits).
Activity interests
- Cálculos espectroscópicos ab initio sobre polioxometalatos de valencia mixta. Instituto de Ciencia Molecular Univ. Valencia + Institut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Atomiques et Moléculaires Complexes Univ. Paul Sabatier + Condensed Matter Theory, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. Basel. . (01/01/2001).
- Aproximaciones moleculares a la computación cuántica. Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (Valencia) Institut für Physik (Basel) Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics (Vancouver). . (01/11/2005).
- Universalidad en las propiedades térmicas en compuestos con desorden. Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (Valencia) / Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics (Vancouver). . (01/12/2008).
Participations in Conferences
- Asambleas de qubits: organizando la Nanoescala. (Festival 'diez a la menos nueve'), 20/04/2018. SPAIN.
Participations in Conferences
- A. Gaita-Ariño (2016). Short-term highly coherent quantum storage in [GdW30P5O110]12-. (Paper). ECMolS . Bolonia . ITALY
- Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2016). Coherence and Organisation in Lanthanoid Spin Qubits. (Invited paper). ICMM 2016 (15th International Conference on Molecule-Based Magnets) . JAPAN
- Alejandro Gaita Ariño (2017). Decoherence in molecular solid-state systems. (Paper). Información Cuántica en España - 4a edición . SPAIN
- Alejandro Gaita Ariño (2017). Recent results on magnetic polyoxometalates as spin qubits. (Paper). Frontiers in Metal Oxide Cluster Science - V . CHINA
- Alejandro Gaita Ariño (2018). De las moléculas imán a las moléculas para tecnologías cuánticas. (Invited paper). XVII Escuela Nacional de Materiales Moleculares . SPAIN
- Alejandro Gaita Ariño, Luis Escalera-Moreno, Lorena E. Rosaleny (2018). From molecular dynamics and towards spin dynamics in molecular nanomagnets and spin qubits. (Paper). ECMolS 2018 . SPAIN
- Alejandro Gaita Ariño (2020). Quantum coherent spin-electric control in molecular nanomagnets. (Paper). Q-Turn workshop 2020 . AUSTRIA
- Alejandro Gaita-Ariño (2020). Quantum coherent spin-electric control in molecular nanomagnets. (Invited paper). First International LOEWE - Scalable Molecular Spin Quantum Bits (SMolBits) Workshop . GERMANY
Projects
- DECRESIM: A Chemical Approach to Molecular Spin Qubits: Decoherence and Organisation of Rare Earth Single Ion Magnets (ALFA). 2015 - 2021. European Comission. . PI: Alejandro Gaita Ariño.
- MOFs y moléculas magnéticas para electrónica y tecnología cuántica (Proyectos de Investigación del Plan Nacional de I+D+I). 2018 - 2020. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. . PI: Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas; Alejandro Gaita-Ariño.
- MOLECULAS MAGNETICAS DE INTERES EN COMPUTACION Y ESPINTRONICA CUANTICAS (Proyectos de Investigación del Plan Nacional de I+D+I). 2015 - 2017. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. . PI: Juan Modesto Clemente Juan.
- Dynamic studies of breathing MOFs and molecular quits (). 2019 - 2021. Generalitat Valenciana. . PI: Guillermo Minguez Espallargas, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Victor Lorenz.
- Scaling Up quantum computation with MOlecular spins (SUMO) (). 2018. QUANTERA. . PI: F. Luis.
- FAult Tolerant MOLecular Spin processor (FATMOLS) (). 2020 - 2023. European Comission. . PI: F. Luis.
Thesis, minor thesis and research reports
- Jose Jaime Baldovi Jachan, (2016). 'Rational design and modelling of f-block molecular nanomagnets'. (Doctoral Thesis with International Mention). University of Valencia..
- Luis Escalera Moreno, (2020). Spin relaxation and Coherence in Molecular Nanomagnets and Molecular Spin Qubits. (Doctoral Thesis with International Mention). University of Valencia..
- Aman Ullah, (2023). Quantum coherent manipulation of spin information in molecular nanomagnets. (Doctoral Thesis). University of Valencia..
Currricul@'s texts
- . International research stays, awards and other relevant actions As postdoc, I spent 3 years in the Univ. British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), 7 months at the Univ. Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) and 3 months at the Univ. Basel (Switzerland). For postdoctoral work abroad and in Spain I obtained funding by competitive postdoctoral programs of the Generalitat Valenciana, Spain and the European Union (Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship). In this training experience I interacted with the most relevant theoretical physicists working in quantum materials and technologies. This allowed me to bring this background to the community of Molecular Magnetism in which I have been since then at the forefront of most of the theoretical developments. In Basel I produced my first scientific breakthrough on the topic of the electric control of magnetic molecules as quantum bits (Nature Nano. 2007, >300 citations). In my postdoc in Vancouver I produced a germinal theoretical work on the design of lanthanoid single-ion magnets based on polyoxometalates. This constituted my first achievement as group leader (JACS 2008, ~700 cits.) Participation in projects or research groups at the national or international level, contracts, patents or equivalent merits Since 2013, I have worked as a Ramon y Cajal grantee at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol), the only institute at the Valencian Community recognized as a 'Maria de Maeztu' excellence unit (on 2016-2019, and again on 2020-2023). Note that I am one of the six 'investigadores garantes' involved in this project. I have been PI of an ERC Consolidator Grant, 'A Chemical Approach to Molecular Spin Qubits: Decoherence and Organisation of Rare Earth Single Ion Magnets' (DECRESIM), which is ending on January 31, and co-PI of two national projects and a Generalitat Valenciana PROMETEO project. Furthermore, I have participated in >25 R+D+I research projects. My current research interests lie in the area of spin science and technology, more concretely in the theoretical modelling of molecular spin architectures for quantum computing. My group is strongly involved in the two European initiatives dealing with molecular spins for quantum computing: the QuantERA project SUMO (Scaling Up quantum computation with MOlecular spins) and the FET-OPEN project 'FAult Tolerant MOLecular Spin processor' (FATMOLS, 3 207 081 EUR: CSIC - Oxford - Valencia - Vienna - Keysight Technologies - Firenze - Stuttgart - Parma - Barcelona - IBM - Manchester)..
- . Scientific publications and participation in outreach activities Author of ~80 scientific publications in high-impact peer-reviewed international journals, including Nature, Nature Chemistry, Nature Nanotechnology, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc. (4), Chem. Sci. (6) and Phys. Rev. Lett. (2). My H-index is 31 with >50 citations per article on average and with 12 of them having >100 citations (according to Web of Science). I have made ~40 contributions to national and international conferences, including ~10 invited talks. 5 recent highlighted contributions: * Muhandis Shiddiq, Dorsa Komijani, Yan Duan, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Eugenio Coronado, Stephen Hill*, Enhancing coherence in molecular spin qubits via atomic clock transitions, Nature 2016, 531, 348-351, cites: 248 * Luis Escalera-Moreno, Nicolas Suaud, Alejandro Gaita-Arino*, Eugenio Coronado, Determining Key Local Vibrations in the Relaxation of Molecular Spin Qubits and Single-Molecule Magnets, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 7, 1695-1700, cites: 68 * Luis Escalera-Moreno, José J Baldoví, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño*, Eugenio Coronado*, Spin states, vibrations and spin relaxation in molecular nanomagnets and spin qubits: a critical perspective, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 3265-3275, cites: 97 * Alejandro Gaita-Ariño*, Fernando Luis*, Stephen Hill*, Eugenio Coronado*, Molecular spins for quantum computation, Nature Chemistry 2019, 11, 301-309, cites: 111 * Ramón Torres-Cavanillas, Garin Escorcia-Ariza, Isaac Brotons-Alcázar, Roger Sanchis-Gual, Prakash Chandra Mondal, Lorena E Rosaleny, Silvia Giménez-Santamarina, Michele Sessolo, Marta Galbiati, Sergio Tatay, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño,* Alicia Forment-Aliaga*, Salvador Cardona-Serra*, Reinforced Room-Temperature Spin Filtering in Chiral Paramagnetic Metallopeptides, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 41, 17572-17580, cites: 1 I am involved in numerous outreach activities, including online publications and outreach conferences. I have also published outreach articles in the Revista Española de Física (2), in the Anales de la Real Sociedad Española de Química (1) and in Quantum Views (1) by participating in the pilot outreach project 'Quantum Leaps'. In 2017 the Real Sociedad Española de Física awarded me the 'Premio al Mejor Artículo Divulgativo en las Publicaciones de la RSEF'. Ability to lead projects and supervise PhDs Five Early Career Reasearchers (predocs) have worked directly with me and benefited from my thesis supervision and mentorship: M. A. AlDamen (2008), S. Cardona-Serra (2013), J. J. Baldoví (2016), L. Escalera (2020) and A. Ullah (ongoing). M.A.A. is now Full Professor in the Jordan Univ., S.C.S obtained after his postdoc a Juan de la Cierva contract and in 2020 successfully passed phase 1 of the ERC Starting (StG) grant. J.J.B. obtained a Marie Curie postdoc and a CDEIGENT contract and is also applying now for an ERC StG. During these years these predocs have been critically involved in all of my major theoretical breakthroughs: M.A.A and then S.C.S kick-started the work on Single-Ion Magnets based on lanthanides, while the highly influencial theoretical work of J.J.B. enabling an inexpensive simulation of the ligand field in these nanomagnets. These achievements put me in a position to obtain an ERC Consolidator Grant in which L.E has played a key role thanks to his work on spin dynamics and coupling of spin states to lattice and molecular vibrations. This approach is now continued and expanded by A.U...
- . Software for materials modelling · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Coauthored an inexpensive discrete atomistic model technique for studying excitations on infinite disordered media (International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2015, 103 (7), 535-546)), a technique for modeling excitations in non-crystalline materials, a problem of practical interest but computationally very expensive in general. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·Coauthored SIMPRE: a software package to calculate crystal field parameters, energy levels, and magnetic properties on mononuclear lanthanoid complexes based on charge distributions (J. J. Baldoví et al, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2013, 34, 1961-1967; J. J. Baldoví et al, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2014, 35, 1930-1934; S. Cardona-Serra et al, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2016, 37, 1238-1244), and updates extending its capabilities. SIMPRE is mainly used to efficiently estimate magnetic properties in lanthanide compounds and has been shown to produce reliable results with a computational cost that is several orders of magnitude cheaper than competing programs. SIMPRE has been requested by (and shared with) researchers in >50 research centers all over the world.
- . 10 highlighted contributions: * Jörg Lehmann, Alejandro Gaita-Arin̄o, Eugenio Coronado & Daniel Loss*, Spin qubits with electrically gated polyoxometalate molecules, Nature Nanotechnology 2007, 2, 312-317 cites:334 * Murad A. AlDamen, Juan M. Clemente-Juan, Eugenio Coronado,*¿ Carlos Martí-Gastaldo, and Alejandro Gaita-Ariño*, Mononuclear lanthanide single-molecule magnets based on polyoxometalates, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 28, 8874-8875, cites: 679 * Murad A AlDamen, Salvador Cardona-Serra, Juan M Clemente-Juan, Eugenio Coronado*, Alejandro Gaita-Arino, Carlos Marti-Gastaldo, Fernando Luis, Oscar Montero, Mononuclear Lanthanide Single Molecule Magnets Based on the Polyoxometalates [Ln(W5O18)(2)](9-) and [Ln(beta(2)-SiW11O39)(2)](13-) (Ln(III) = Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb), Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 8, 3467-3479, cites:372 * Juan M. Clemente-Juan , Eugenio Coronado * and Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Magnetic polyoxometalates: from molecular magnetism to molecular spintronics and quantum computing, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 7464-7478, cites: 478 * José J. Baldoví, Salvador Cardona-Serra, Juan M. Clemente-Juan, Eugenio Coronado*, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño*, and Andrew Palii, Rational Design of Single-Ion Magnets and Spin Qubits Based on Mononuclear Lanthanoid Complexes, Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 22, 12565-12574, cites: 161 * Muhandis Shiddiq, Dorsa Komijani, Yan Duan, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Eugenio Coronado, Stephen Hill*, Enhancing coherence in molecular spin qubits via atomic clock transitions, Nature 2016, 531, 348-351, cites: 248 * Luis Escalera-Moreno, Nicolas Suaud, Alejandro Gaita-Arino*, Eugenio Coronado, Determining Key Local Vibrations in the Relaxation of Molecular Spin Qubits and Single-Molecule Magnets, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 7, 1695-1700, cites: 68 * Luis Escalera-Moreno, José J Baldoví, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño*, Eugenio Coronado*, Spin states, vibrations and spin relaxation in molecular nanomagnets and spin qubits: a critical perspective, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 3265-3275, cites: 96 * Alejandro Gaita-Ariño*, Fernando Luis*, Stephen Hill*, Eugenio Coronado*, Molecular spins for quantum computation, Nature Chemistry 2019, 11, 301-309, cites: 110 * Ramón Torres-Cavanillas, Garin Escorcia-Ariza, Isaac Brotons-Alcázar, Roger Sanchis-Gual, Prakash Chandra Mondal, Lorena E Rosaleny, Silvia Giménez-Santamarina, Michele Sessolo, Marta Galbiati, Sergio Tatay, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño,* Alicia Forment-Aliaga*, Salvador Cardona-Serra*, Reinforced Room-Temperature Spin Filtering in Chiral Paramagnetic Metallopeptides, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 41, 17572-17580, cites: 1.
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