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Long-range quantum communication for spin qubits is an important open problem. Here we study decoherence of an electron spin qubit that is being transported in a moving quantum dot. We focus on spin decoherence due to spin-orbit interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-12 Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

We consider a system of two strongly coupled electron spins in zero magnetic field, each of which is interacting with an individual bath of nuclear spins via the hyperfine interaction. Applying the long spin approximation (LSA) introduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 Bjoern Erbe , John Schliemann

We study the dynamics of an electron spin in a graphene quantum dot, which is interacting with a bath of less than ten nuclear spins via the anisotropic hyperfine interaction. Due to substantial progress in the fabrication of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 Moritz Fuchs , John Schliemann , Björn Trauzettel

Control of electron spin decoherence in contact with a mesoscopic bath of many interacting nuclear spins in an InAs quantum dot is studied by solving the coupled quantum dynamics. The nuclear spin bath, because of its bifurcated evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Ren-Bao Liu , Wang Yao , L. J. Sham

We give a theoretical treatment of the interaction of electronic excitations (excitons) in biomolecules and quantum dots with the surrounding polar solvent. Significant quantum decoherence occurs due to the interaction of the electric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Joel Gilmore , Ross H. McKenzie

We examine the logical qubit system of a pair of electron spins in double quantum dots. Each electron experiences a different hyperfine interaction with the local nuclei of the lattice, leading to a relative phase difference, and thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-18 David Drummond , Leonid P. Pryadko , Kirill Shtengel

Single electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are a versatile platform for quantum information processing, however controlling decoherence remains a considerable challenge. Recently, hole spins have emerged as a promising…

We study the decoherence of a single electron spin in an isolated quantum dot induced by hyperfine interaction with nuclei for times smaller than the nuclear spin relaxation time. The decay is caused by the spatial variation of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Alexander Khaetskii , Daniel Loss , Leonid Glazman

We review recent theoretical and experimental advances toward understanding the effects of nuclear spins in confined nanostructures. These systems, which include quantum dots, defect centers, and molecular magnets, are particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-15 W. A. Coish , J. Baugh

In terms of the exact quantum master equation solution for open electronic systems, the coherent dynamics of two charge states described by two parallel quantum dots with one fully polarized electron on either dot is investigated in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Jinshuang Jin , Wei-Min Zhang , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Nien-En Wang

The dynamics and decoherence of an electronic spin-1/2 qubit coupled to a bath of nuclear spins via hyperfine interactions in a quantum dot is studied. We show how exact results from the integrable solution can be used to understand the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-22 Michael Bortz , Sebastian Eggert , Christian Schneider , Robert Stubner , Joachim Stolze

We propose a scheme to manipulate the spin coherence in vertically coupled GaAs double quantum dots. Up to {\em ten} orders of magnitude variation of the spin relaxation and {\em two} orders of magnitude variation of the spin dephasing can…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-19 Y. Y. Wang , M. W. Wu

We investigate the performance of dynamical decoupling methods at suppressing electron spin decoherence from a low-temperature nuclear spin reservoir in a quantum dot. The controlled dynamics is studied through exact numerical simulation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wenxian Zhang , V. V. Dobrovitski , Lea F. Santos , Lorenza Viola , B. N. Harmon

We briefly review the physics of gate operations between quantum dot spin-qubits and analyze the dynamics of quantum entanglement in such processes. The indistinguishable character of the electrons whose spins realize the qubits gives rise…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

The main source of decoherence for an electron spin confined to a quantum dot is the hyperfine interaction with nuclear spins. To analyze this process theoretically we diagonalize the central spin Hamiltonian in the high magnetic B-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleksandr Tsyplyatyev , Daniel Loss

We theoretically consider coherence times for spins in two quantum computer architectures, where the qubit is the spin of an electron bound to a P donor impurity in Si or within a GaAs quantum dot. We show that low temperature decoherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rogerio de Sousa , S. Das Sarma

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Xuedong Hu

Interaction of solid state qubits with environmental degrees of freedom strongly affects the qubit dynamics, and leads to decoherence. In quantum information processing with solid state qubits, decoherence significantly limits the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Luca Chirolli , Guido Burkard

We study spin-orbit mediated relaxation and dephasing of electron spins in quantum dots. We show that higher order contributions provide a relaxation mechanism that dominates for low magnetic fields and is of geometrical origin. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pablo San-Jose , Gergely Zarand , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

We consider two qubits interacting by means of an optical cavity, where each qubit is represented by a single electron spin confined to a quantum dot. It is known that electron spins in III-V semiconductor quantum dots are affected by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Julia Hildmann , Guido Burkard