Campanella Anthony J, Üngör Ökten, Zadrozny Joseph M
Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Address: 200 W. Lake St, Campus Delivery 1872, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
Comments Mod Chem A Comments Inorg Chem. 2024;44(1):11-53. doi: 10.1080/02603594.2023.2173588. Epub 2023 Feb 13.
Quantum objects, such as atoms, spins, and subatomic particles, have important properties due to their unique physical properties that could be useful for many different applications, ranging from quantum information processing to magnetic resonance imaging. Molecular species also exhibit quantum properties, and these properties are fundamentally tunable by synthetic design, unlike ions isolated in a quadrupolar trap, for example. In this comment, we collect multiple, distinct, scientific efforts into an emergent field that is devoted to designing molecules that mimic the quantum properties of objects like trapped atoms or defects in solids. Mimicry is endemic in inorganic chemistry and featured heavily in the research interests of groups across the world. We describe a new field of using inorganic chemistry to design molecules that mimic the quantum properties (e.g. the lifetime of spin superpositions, or the resonant frequencies thereof) of other quantum objects, "quantum mimicry." In this comment, we describe the philosophical design strategies and recent exciting results from application of these strategies.
量子物体，如原子、自旋和亚原子粒子，由于其独特的物理性质而具有重要特性，这些特性可用于许多不同的应用，从量子信息处理到磁共振成像。分子物种也表现出量子特性，并且与例如在四极阱中孤立的离子不同，这些特性从根本上可通过合成设计进行调节。在本评论中，我们将多项不同的科学研究成果汇聚到一个新兴领域，该领域致力于设计能够模拟被困原子或固体缺陷等物体量子特性的分子。模仿在无机化学中很常见，并且在世界各地研究团队的研究兴趣中占据重要地位。我们描述了一个利用无机化学设计分子以模拟其他量子物体量子特性（例如自旋叠加寿命或其共振频率）的新领域，即“量子模仿”。在本评论中，我们描述了其哲学设计策略以及应用这些策略所取得的近期令人兴奋的成果。
