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We review and summarize recent theoretical and experimental work on electron spin dynamics in quantum dots and related nanostructures due to hyperfine interaction with surrounding nuclear spins. This topic is of particular interest with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 John Schliemann , Alexander Khaetskii , Daniel Loss

The electron spin transport in condensed matter, Spintronics, is a subject of rapidly growing interest both scientifically and from the point of view of applications to modern and future electronics. In many cases the electron spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Israel D. Vagner

The loss of information about the relative phase between two quantum states, known as decoherence, strongly limits resolution in electron paramagnetic spectroscopy and hampers the use of molecules for quantum information processing. At low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Conor Ryan , Valerio Briganti , Cathal Hogan , Mark O'Neill , Alessandro Lunghi

We review recent studies on spin decoherence of electrons and holes in quasi-two-dimensional quantum dots, as well as electron-spin relaxation in nanowire quantum dots. The spins of confined electrons and holes are considered major…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 Jan Fischer , Mircea Trif , W. A. Coish , Daniel Loss

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre, as a promising candidate solid state system of quantum information processing, its electron spin coherence is influenced by the magnetic field fluctuations due to the local environment. In pure diamonds,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Nan Zhao , Jian-Liang Hu , Sai-Wah Ho , Tsz-Kai Wen , R. B. Liu

Spatially nonhomogeneously spin polarized nuclei are proposed as a new mechanism to monitor electron states in a nanostructure, or as a means to createn and, if necessary, reshape such nanostructures in the course of the experiment. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. Fleurov , V. A. Ivanov , F. M. Peeters , I. D. Vagner

The nuclear spin, being much more isolated from the environment than its electronic counterpart, enables quantum experiments with prolonged coherence times and presents a gateway towards uncovering the intricate dynamics within an atom.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Lukas M. Veldman , Evert W. Stolte , Mark P. Canavan , Rik Broekhoven , Philip Willke , Laëtitia Farinacci , Sander Otte

This mini-review presents a simple and accessible summary on the fascinating physics of quantum nanomagnets coupled to a nuclear spin bath. These chemically synthesized systems are an ideal test ground for the theories of decoherence in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrea Morello

Nuclear spins in certain solids couple weakly to their environment, making them attractive candidates for quantum information processing and inertial sensing. When coupled to the spin of an optically-active electron, nuclear spins can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Alexander A. Wood , Russell M. Goldblatt , Robert E. Scholten , Andy M. Martin

Decoherence of electron spins in nanoscale systems is important to quantum technologies such as quantum information processing and magnetometry. It is also an ideal model problem for studying the crossover between quantum and classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Wen Yang , Wen-Long Ma , Ren-Bao Liu

Hybrid qubit systems combining electronic spins with nearby ("proximate") nuclear spin registers offer a promising avenue towards quantum information processing, with even multi-spin error correction protocols recently demonstrated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Guichard , S. J. Balian , G. Wolfowicz , P. A. Mortemousque , T. S. Monteiro

The effect of electron-nuclear spin interactions on qubit operations is investigated for a qubit represented by the spin of an electron localized in a self-assembled quantum dot. The localized electron wave function is evaluated within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Seungwon Lee , Paul von Allmen , Fabiano Oyafuso , Gerhard Klimeck , K. Birgitta Whaley

We investigate in detail, using both analytical and numerical tools, the decoherence of electron spins in quantum dots (QDs) coupled to a bath of nuclear spins in magnetic fields or with various initial bath polarizations, focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wenxian Zhang , V. V. Dobrovitski , K. A. Al-Hassanieh , E. Dagotto , B. N. Harmon

Recently an ensemble of nuclear spins in a quantum dot have been proposed as a long-lived quantum memory. A quantum state of an electron spin in the dot can be faithfully transfered into nuclear spins through controlled hyperfine coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Changxue Deng , Xuedong Hu

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

Molecular spins offer promise in emerging quantum technologies such as quantum sensing and computing. At low temperatures, nuclear spin-spin interactions affect electron spin coherence lifetimes through pure dephasing. Nuclear-spin noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Timothy J. Krogmeier , James Bradley , Anthony W. Schlimgen , Kade Head-Marsden

Techniques for coherent control of electron spin-nuclear spin interactions in quantum dots can be directly applied in spintronics and in quantum information processing. In this work we study numerically the interaction of electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Dobrovitski , J. M. Taylor , M. D. Lukin

We present a quantum solution to the electron spin decoherence by a nuclear pair-correlation method for the electron-nuclear spin dynamics under a strong magnetic field and a temperature high for the nuclear spins but low for the electron.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wang Yao , Ren-Bao Liu , L. J. Sham

We theoretically study the decoherence and the dynamical decoupling control of nitrogen-vacancy center electron spins in high-purity diamond, where the hyperfine interaction with $^{13}$C nuclear spins is the dominating decoherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Nan Zhao , Sai-Wah Ho , Ren-Bao Liu

Physical systems must fulfill a number of conditions to qualify as useful quantum bits (qubits) for quantum information processing, including ease of manipulation, long decoherence times, and high fidelity readout operations. Since these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Feng , Y. Y. Xu , F. Zhou , D. Suter
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