Spintronics across individual atoms: an emerging quantum technology platform to encode information and harvest thermal energy

Despite its low-power and industrialization advantages, spintronics has so far not been featured among the many quantum technological platforms because embedding a quantum object with discrete electronic states within this class of solid-state device is challenging. I will present recent research into a quantum flavor of inorganic and molecular spintronics that utilizes the spin states of individual magnetic atoms to encode quantum information and autonomously harvest thermal energy within solid-state vertical pillar devices.