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We study the mechanism of dynamical nuclear spin polarization by hyperfine interaction in spin-blocked double quantum dot system. We calculate the hyperfine transition rates and solve the master equations for the nuclear spins.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Changxue Deng , Xuedong Hu

We propose a novel scheme to efficiently polarize and manipulate the electron spin in a quantum dot. This scheme is based on the spin-orbit interaction and it possesses following advantages: (1) The direction and the strength of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Repeated injection of spin polarized carriers in a quantum dot leads to the polarization of nuclear spins, a process known as dynamic nuclear spin polarization (DNP). Here, we report the first observation of p-shell carrier assisted DNP in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 C. F. Fong , Y. Ota , E. Harbord , S. Iwamoto , Y. Arakawa

We report on the immersion of a spin-qubit encoded in a single trapped ion into a spin-polarized neutral atom environment, which possesses both continuous (motional) and discrete (spin) degrees of freedom. The environment offers the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 L. Ratschbacher , C. Sias , L. Carcagni , J. M. Silver , C. Zipkes , M. Köhl

We study the time evolution of a single spin coupled inhomogeneously to a spin environment. Such a system is realized by a single electron spin bound in a semiconductor nanostructure and interacting with surrounding nuclear spins. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 John Schliemann , Alexander V. Khaetskii , Daniel Loss

We report manifestly nonlinear dependence of quantum dot nuclear spin polarization on applied magnetic fields. Resonant absorption and emission of circularly polarized radiation pumps the resident quantum dot electron spin, which in turn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Maletinsky , C. W. Lai , A. Badolato , A. Imamoglu

We observe mixing between two-electron singlet and triplet states in a double quantum dot, caused by interactions with nuclear spins in the host semiconductor. This mixing is suppressed by applying a small magnetic field, or by increasing…

Dynamic nuclear polarisation, which transfers the spin polarisation of electrons to nuclei, is routinely applied to enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance; it is also critical in spintronics, particularly when spin…

We propose a new method for dynamic nuclear polarisation in a quasi one-dimensional quantum wire utilising the spin-orbit interaction, the hyperfine interaction, and a finite source-drain potential difference. In contrast with current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-05 V. Tripathi , A. C. H. Cheung , N. R. Cooper

It is demonstrated that the now well-established `flip-flop' mechanism of spin exchange between electrons and nuclei in the quantum Hall effect can be reversed. We use a sample geometry which utilizes separately contacted edge states to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Würtz , T. Müller , A. Lorke , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

The time-dependent Schrodinger equation of a many particle spin system consisting of an electron in a quantum dot interacting with the spins of the nuclei (N) in the dot due to hyperfine interaction is solved exactly for a given arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Rajagopal

We develop a theoretical model for transverse dynamics of a single electron spin interacting with a nuclear spin bath. The approach allows a simple diagrammatic representation and analytical expressions of different nuclear spin excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 S. K. Saikin , Wang Yao , L. J. Sham

We investigate the dynamic nuclear polarization from the hyperfine interaction between nonequilibrium electronic spins and nuclear spins coupled to them in semiconductor nanostructures. We derive the time and position dependence of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ionel Tifrea , Michael E. Flatte

We have evaluated hyperfine-induced electron spin dynamics for two electrons confined to a double quantum dot. Our quantum solution accounts for decay of a singlet-triplet correlator even in the presence of a fully static nuclear spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Coish , Daniel Loss

The mesoscopic spin system formed by the 10E4-10E6 nuclear spins in a semiconductor quantum dot offers a unique setting for the study of many-body spin physics in the condensed matter. The dynamics of this system and its coupling to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 Bernhard Urbaszek , Xavier Marie , Thierry Amand , Olivier Krebs , Paul Voisin , Patrick Maletinsky , Alexander Hogele , Atac Imamoglu

Optical and electrical control of the nuclear spin system allows enhancing the sensitivity of NMR applications and spin-based information storage and processing. Dynamic nuclear polarization in semiconductors is commonly achieved in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 G. Sallen , S. Kunz , T. Amand , L. Bouet , T. Kuroda , T. Mano , D. Paget , O. Krebs , X. Marie , K. Sakoda , B. Urbaszek

Future communication and computation technologies that exploit quantum information require robust and well-isolated qubits. Electron spins in III-V semiconductor quantum dots, while promising candidates, see their dynamics limited by…

We consider, in the framework of the central spin $s=1/2$ model, driven dynamics of two electrons in a double quantum dot subject to hyperfine interaction with nuclear spins and spin-orbit coupling. The nuclear subsystem dynamically evolves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Arne Brataas , Emmanuel I. Rashba

We investigate the spin-dependent dynamical response of a quantum ring with a spin-orbit interaction upon the application of linearly polarized, picosecond, asymmetric electromagnetic pulses. The oscillations of the generated dipole moment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

We consider theoretically a magnetic impurity spin driven by polarized electrons tunneling through a double quantum dot system. Spin blockade effect and spin conservation in the system make the magnetic impurity sufficiently interact with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Wenxi Lai , Wen Yang