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Answering the most puzzling questions in fundamental physis drives a continuous quest for the development of new detection techniques which may allow to go beyond the limits of traditional measurement approaches. On this purpose, an increasing R&D activity investigating new detection strategies based on exploiting the extreme sensitivity of quantum systems is currently ongoing, aiming at introducing innovative sensors with frontier performances.
Among the quantum systems under study, Single Molecule Magnets (SMMs, molecular crystals where each molecule substantially behaves as a tiny, isolated magnet) are considered to have promising potential for development in the context of spin-based devices. After an introduction to this rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field and to these relatively new materials, we present the INFN R&D project NAMASSTE and its results, which give strong evidence for the potential application of quantum sensing based on SMMs to particle detection.