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We investigate the electron spin relaxation of $n$-type InAs quantum wires by numerically solving the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equations with the relevant scattering explicitly included. We find that the quantum-wire size and…

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We calculate the spin relaxation rates in a parabolic InSb quantum dots due to the spin interaction with acoustical phonons. We considered the deformation potential mechanism as the dominant electron-phonon coupling in the Pavlov-Firsov…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. L. Romano , G. E. Marques , L. Sanz , A. M. Alcalde

We study the relaxation of the exciton spin (longitudinal relaxation time $T_{1}$) in single asymmetrical quantum dots due to an interplay of the short--range exchange interaction and acoustic phonon deformation. The calculated relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Tsitsishvili , R. v. Baltz , H. Kalt

We investigate heavy-hole spin relaxation and decoherence in quantum dots in perpendicular magnetic fields. We show that at low temperatures the spin decoherence time is two times longer than the spin relaxation time. We find that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis V. Bulaev , Daniel Loss

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 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,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

The spin of a confined electron, when oriented originally in some direction, will lose memory of that orientation after some time. Physical mechanisms leading to this relaxation of spin memory typically involve either coupling of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 A. C. Johnson , J. R. Petta , J. M. Taylor , A. Yacoby , M. D. Lukin , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We calculate electron and nuclear spin relaxation rates in a quantum dot due to the combined action of Nyquist noise and electron-nuclei hyperfine or spin-orbit interactions. The relaxation rate is linear in the resistance of the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Florian Marquardt , Veniamin A. Abalmassov

We investigate the longitudinal spin relaxation arising due to spin-flip transitions accompanied by phonon emission in quantum dots where the strength of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a random function of the lateral (in-plane)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Ya. Sherman , D. J. Lockwood

Electron spin decoherence caused by elastic spin-phonon processes is investigated comprehensively in a zero-dimensional environment. Specifically, a theoretical treatment is developed for the processes associated with the fluctuations in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim

Spin relaxation in a quantum Hall ferromagnet, where filling is $\nu=1, 1/3, 1/5,...$, can be considered in terms of spin wave annihilation/creation processes. Hyperfine coupling with the nuclei of the GaAs matrix provides spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-30 S. Dickmann , T. Ziman

A global quantitative picture of the phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in GaAs double quantum dots is presented using highly accurate numerical calculations. Wide regimes of interdot coupling, magnetic field magnitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Fabio Baruffa , Jaroslav Fabian

We study decoherence of an electron spin qubit in a quantum dot due to charge noise. We find that at the lowest order, the pure dephasing channel is suppressed for both $1/f$ charge noise and Johnson noise, so that charge noise leads to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

Hole spin relaxation time due to the hole-acoustic phonon scattering in GaAs quantum dots confined in quantum wells along (001) and (111) directions is studied after the exact diagonalization of Luttinger Hamiltonian. Different effects such…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Lü , J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu

Hole spins in semiconductors are a potential qubit alternative to electron spins. In nuclear-spin-rich host crystals like GaAs, the hyperfine interaction of hole spins with nuclei is considerably weaker than that for electrons, leading to…

We calculate the spin relaxation rates in a parabolic InSb quantum dots due to the spin interaction with acoustical phonons. We considered the deformation potential mechanism as the dominant electron-phonon coupling in the Pavlov-Firsov…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-15 A. M. Alcalde , C. L. Romano , L. Sanz , G. E. Marques

A recently discovered mechanism of electric dipole spin resonance, mediated by the hyperfine interaction, is investigated experimentally and theoretically. The effect is studied using a spin-selective transition in a GaAs double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. A. Laird , C. Barthel , E. I. Rashba , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We study the effect of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction on the electronic states and spin relaxation rates of cylindrical quantum dots defined on quantum wires having wurtzite lattice structure. The linear and cubic contributions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Guido A. Intronati , Pablo I. Tamborenea , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

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