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Reply to the comment on "Do intradot electron-electron interactions induce dephasing?"

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

In the comment by Konig, Gefen, and Silva, their main point is to question the approximation we used in solving the Green's function. They believe that this approximative method is inappropriate to describe spin-flip-related dephasing processes caused by intradot interaction, so they believe that our conclusions are ill-founded because of that. We agree that we indeed used an approximation in calculating the Green's function. However, we believe our approximation to be reasonable and the main conclusion, namely, an intradot electron-electron interaction can not induce dephasing, should hold. In particular, we emphasize that we have taken the higher-order terms in solving the Green's function than appeared in their previous publications. We will compare the approximation used their papers with that in our work.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409339,
  title  = {Reply to the comment on "Do intradot electron-electron interactions induce dephasing?"},
  author = {Zhao-tan Jiang and Qing-feng Sun and X. C. Xie and Yupeng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409339},
  year   = {2009}
}

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