Spin Decoherence from Hamiltonian dynamics in Quantum Dots
Abstract
The dynamics of a spin-1/2 particle coupled to a nuclear spin bath through an isotropic Heisenberg interaction is studied, as a model for the spin decoherence in quantum dots. The time-dependent polarization of the central spin is calculated as a function of the bath-spin distribution and the polarizations of the initial bath state. For short times, the polarization of the central spin shows a gaussian decay, and at later times it revives displaying nonmonotonic time dependence. The decoherence time scale dep ends on moments of the bath-spin distribuition, and also on the polarization strengths in various bath-spin channels. The bath polarizations have a tendency to increase the decoherence time scale. The effective dynamics of the central spin polarization is shown to be describ ed by a master equation with non-markovian features.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0602027,
title = {Spin Decoherence from Hamiltonian dynamics in Quantum Dots},
author = {D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao and V. Ravishankar and V. Subrahmanyam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0602027},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 figures Accepted for publication in Phys.Rev A