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We present an experimental study of the dynamics underlying the buildup and decay of dynamical nuclear spin polarization in a single semiconductor quantum dot. Our experiment shows that the nuclei can be polarized on a time scale of a few…

Optics · Physics 2007-08-02 P. Maletinsky , A. Badolato , A. Imamoglu

Coherent two-level systems, or qubits, based on electron spins in GaAs quantum dots are strongly coupled to the nuclear spins of the host lattice via the hyperfine interaction. Realizing nuclear spin control would likely improve electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 D. J. Reilly , J. M. Taylor , J. R. Petta , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

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

A quasi-classical theoretical description of polarization and relaxation of nuclear spins in a quantum dot with one resident electron is developed for arbitrary mechanisms of electron spin polarization. The dependence of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 I. A. Merkulov , G. Alvarez , D. R. Yakovlev , T. C. Schulthess

We study nuclear spin dynamics in a quantum dot close to the conditions of electron spin resonance. We show that at small frequency mismatch the nuclear field detunes the resonance. Remarkably, at larger frequency mismatch its effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeroen Danon , Yuli V. Nazarov

Isolated electron spins in semiconductor nanostructures are promising qubit candidates for a solid state quantum computer, There have seen truly impressive experimental progresses in the study of single spins in the past two years. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Changxue Deng , Xuedong Hu

We demonstrate bias control of the hyperfine coupling between a single electron in an InAs quantum dot and the surrounding nuclear spins monitored through the positively charged exciton X+ emission. In applied longitudinal magnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 J. Nilsson , L. Bouet , A. J. Bennett , T. Amand , R. M. Stevenson , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , S. Kunz , X. Marie , A. J. Shields , B. Urbaszek

We have performed a systematic calculation for the non-Markovian dynamics of a localized electron spin interacting with an environment of nuclear spins via the Fermi contact hyperfine interaction. This work applies to an electron in the s…

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

We analyze electron spin relaxation in electronic transport through coherently coupled double quantum dots in the spin blockade regime. In particular, we focus on hyperfine interaction as the spin relaxation mechanism. We pay special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Carlos López-Monís , Jesús Iñarrea , Gloria Platero

We present a quantum mechanical theory of optically induced dynamic nuclear polarization applicable to quantum dots and other interacting spin systems. The exact steady state of the optically driven coupled electron-nuclear system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Thomas Nutz , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

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

In this article, we study control of electron-nuclear spin dynamics at magnetic field strengths where the Larmor frequency of the nucleus is comparable to the hyperfine coupling strength. The quantization axis for the nuclear spin differs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Navin Khaneja

We investigate quantum dynamics in the electron-nuclei coupled spin system in quantum dots and clarify the fundamental features of quantum correlation induced via successive electron spin measurements. This quantum correlation leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ozgur Cakir , Toshihide Takagahara

The dominant source of decoherence for an electron spin in a quantum dot is the hyperfine interaction with the surrounding bath of nuclear spins. The decoherence process may be slowed down by subjecting the electron spin to suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Wenxian Zhang , V. V. Dobrovitski , Lea F. Santos , Lorenza Viola , B. N. Harmon

We present a microscopic theory of the nonequilibrium nuclear spin dynamics driven by the electron and/or hole under continuous wave pumping in a quantum dot. We show the correlated dynamics of the nuclear spin ensemble and the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Wen Yang , L. J. Sham

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 investigate the inelastic spin-flip rate for electrons in a quantum dot due to their contact hyperfine interaction with lattice nuclei. In contrast to other works, we obtain a spin-phonon coupling term from this interaction by taking…

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

Spin dynamics is considered in ferromagnets consisting of electron and nuclear subsystems interacting with each other through hyperfine forces. In addition, the ferromagnetic sample is coupled with a resonance electric circuit. Under these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Yukalov , M. G. Cottam , M. R. Singh

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