Quantum spin holography with surface state electrons

In a recent paper, Moon et al. [Nat. Nanotechnol. 4, 167 (2009)] have shown that the single-atom limit for information storage density can be overcome by using the coherence of electrons in a two-dimensional electron gas to produce quantum holograms comprised of individually manipulated molecules projecting an electronic pattern onto a portion of a surface. We propose to further extend the concept by introducing quantum spin holography—a version of quantum holographic encoding allowing to store the information in two spin channels independently.