MOLECULES FOR REFRIGERATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Zaragoza Province (NUTS ES243); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 121,000; EU co-financing EUR 60,500 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): RESULTS OF THE PROPOSAL’S RESEARCH TEAM AND OTHER GROUPS WITH LEADERSHIP IN THIS FIELD SHOW THAT MOLECULAR MAGNETIC MATERIALS ARE VERY ATTRACTIVE FOR RESEARCH IN QUANTUM INFORMATION (QI) AND MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION (MR). THE MIRT PROJECT IS DIVIDED INTO TWO MAIN LINES OF RESEARCH, WHICH ADDRESS SOME OF THE REMAINING CHALLENGES TO MAKE BOTH TECHNOLOGIES A REALITY. THE RESEARCH LINE IN QI IS ORIENTED TOWARDS THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALABLE COMPUTATION ARCHITECTURE BASED ON THE COUPLING OF MAGNETIC MOLECULES TO SUPERCONDUCTIVE RESONATORS. ITS SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES ARE THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTIC PROCESSORS OF UP TO 8 QUBITS OF ESPIN IN MAGNETIC MOLECULES, THE OPTIMISATION OF THE QUANTIC COHERENCE OF ESPIN OF THESE MOLECULES THE MANUFACTURE OF SUPERCONDUCTIVE RESONATORS COPLANAR WITH NANOSCOPIC CONSTRICTIONS, OPTIMISED TO ATTACH TO NANOSCOPIC SETS OF SPINS, THE CONTROLLED INTEGRATION OF MAGNETIC MOLECULES IN SUPERCONDUCTIVE CIRCUITS AND, FINALLY, THE REALISATION OF EXPERIMENTS OF ELECTRODINAMICA QUANTICA ON CRYSTALS AND SMALL MATRICES OF SPINS. MR’S RESEARCH LINE IS LOOKING FOR NEW REFRIGERANT MATERIALS, BASED ON NON-CRITICAL MATERIALS WITH RECORD EFFICIENCY, AS WELL AS NEW APPLICATIONS OF THESE. ITS OBJECTIVES ARE THE INCREASE IN THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, THE APPLICATION FOR COOLING TO ULTRA LOW TEMPERATURES, THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICRO-CHIP COOLERS, THE ACQUISITION AND OPTIMISATION OF AN ANISOTROPO MAGNETOCALORY EFFECT, THE REPLACEMENT OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS AND HELIUM-3, AS WELL AS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DIRECT DETERMINATION OF THE MAGNETOCALORIC EFFECT. BY COMBINING DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES AND COMPLEMENTARY EXPERIMENTAL TOOLS, THE PROJECT GOES CLEARLY BEYOND THE DESIGN AND CHARACTERISATION OF THIS CLASS OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS. THE FOCUS ON WELL-DEFINED OBJECTIVES ALLOWS MIRT TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES AT THE FRONTIER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project focuses on molecular magnetic materials for quantum information and magnetic refrigeration, co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 121,000. It ran from January 2016 to December 2018 in Zaragoza Province, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.