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We study electron-phonon interaction induced decoherence between two-electron singlet and triplet states in a semiconductor double quantum dot using a spin-boson model. We investigate the onset and time evolution of this dephasing, and…

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We study the relaxation of an electron spin qubit in a Si quantum dot due to electrical noise. In particular, we clarify how the presence of conduction-band valleys influences spin relaxation. In single-valley semiconductor quantum dots,…

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We describe the effect of geometric phases induced by either classical or quantum electric fields acting on single electron spins in quantum dots in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. On one hand, applied electric fields can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-09 Pablo San-Jose , Burkhard Scharfenberger , Gerd Schön , Alexander Shnirman , Gergely Zarand

We have studied theoretically the electron spin relaxation in semiconductor quantum dots via interaction with nuclear spins. The relaxation is shown to be determined by three processes: (i) -- the precession of the electron spin in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. A. Merkulov , Al. L. Efros , M. Rosen

We investigate the decoherence effect of a bosonic bath on the Berry phase of a spin-1/2 in a time-dependent magnetic field, without making the Markovian approximation. A two-cycle process resulting in a pure Berry phase is considered. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xin Li , Yu Shi

Unexpected fluctuating charge field near a semiconductor quantum dot has severely limited the coherence time of the localized spin qubit. It is the interplay between the spin-orbit coupling and the asymmetrical confining potential in a…

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The effect of fluctuations in the classical control parameters on the Berry phase of a spin 1/2 interacting with a adiabatically cyclically varying magnetic field is analyzed. It is explicitly shown that in the adiabatic limit dephasing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriele De Chiara , G. Massimo Palma

We report a measurement of the spin-echo decay of a single electron spin confined in a semiconductor quantum dot. When we tip the spin in the transverse plane via a magnetic field burst, it dephases in 37 ns due to the Larmor precession…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 F. H. L. Koppens , K. C. Nowack , L. M. K. Vandersypen

We study spin relaxation and decoherence caused by electron-lattice and spin-orbit interaction and predict striking effects induced by magnetic fields $B$. For particular values of $B$, destructive interference occurs resulting in ultralong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-04 Denis V. Bulaev , Bjoern Trauzettel , Daniel Loss

A physically transparent and mathematically simple semiclassical model is employed to examine dynamics in the central-spin problem. The results reproduce a number of previous findings obtained by various quantum approaches and, at the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Tomasz Dietl

Electron spin relaxation induced by phonon-mediated s-d exchange interaction in a II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum dot is investigated theoretically. The electron-acoustic phonon interaction due to piezoelectric coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , K. Chang

Understanding the spin dephasing mechanism is of fundamental importance in all potential applications of the spin qubit. Here we demonstrate a spin dephasing mechanism in semiconductor quantum dot due to the $1/f$ charge noise. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Rui Li

We have studied the physical processes responsible for the spin -flip in GaAs quantum dots. We have calculated the rates for different mechanisms which are related to spin-orbit coupling and cause a spin-flip during the inelastic relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander V. Khaetskii , Yuli V. Nazarov

We discuss the rate of relaxation of the total spin in the two-electron droplet in the vicinity of the magnetic field driven singlet-triplet transition. The total spin relaxation is attributed to spin-orbit and electron-phonon interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Dickmann , P. Hawrylak

The spin relaxation time $T_{1}$ in zinc blende GaN quantum dot is investigated for different magnetic field, well width and quantum dot diameter. The spin relaxation caused by the two most important spin relaxation mechanisms in zinc…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-11 M. Q. Weng , Y. Y. Wang , M. W. Wu

We investigate the spin dynamics of electrons in quantum wells where the Rashba type of spin-orbit coupling is present in the form of random nanosize domains. We study the effect of magnetic field on the spin relaxation in these systems and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

We present our study of decoherence in charge (spin) qubits due to evanescent-wave Johnson noise (EWJN) in a laterally coupled double quantum dot (single quantum dot). The high density of evanescent modes in the vicinity of metallic gates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Amrit Poudel , Luke Langsjoen , Maxim Vavilov , Robert Joynt

We derive the general formula giving the Berry phase for an arbitrary spin, having both magnetic-dipole and electric-quadrupole couplings with external time-dependent fields. We assume that the effective E and B fields remain orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Marie-Anne Bouchiat , Claude Bouchiat

Disorder in spin-orbit (SO) coupling is an important feature of real low-dimensional electron structures. We study spin relaxation due to such a disorder as well as resulting abilities of spin manipulation. The spin relaxation reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , V. I. Ivanov , J. Barnas

We consider relaxation of an electron spin in a nanotube quantum dot due to its coupling to flexural phonon modes, and identify a new spin-orbit mediated coupling between the nanotube deflection and the electron spin. This mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Mark S. Rudner , Emmanuel I. Rashba