The centre for molecular quantum systems (molQ) is being funded by the Werner Siemens-Stiftung (WSS) for a 11-year period with 15 million Swiss francs.

The Werner Siemens Foundation provides generous seed funding to outstanding, innovative projects in technical fields and the natural sciences with the goal that, in a few years, the projects can be run independently or that the results find industrial application. 

The WSS centre for molecular quantum systems (molQ) aims to develop a technological platform for the realization of robust topological qubits based on supramolecular spin lattices coupled to superconducting devices. 

Our disruptive approach is based on organic molecules as host for single electron (spin) to form quantum systems in one- (1D) or two-dimensions (2D) on superconductors. Their characterizations will be performed using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). With the synthesis of nanoscale organic topological qubits, we wish to address essential prerequisites for technical scaling up and device integration at moderate temperatures (1-5 Kelvin). 

These novel quantum materials, whose electronic states can be controlled by an external gate voltage, are supposedly topologically protected which could enable long coherence times.