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A novel spin orientation mechanism - dynamic electron spin polarization has been recently suggested in Phys. Rev. Lett. $\mathbf{125}$, 156801 (2020). It takes place for unpolarized optical excitation in weak magnetic fields of the order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. S. Shamirzaev , A. V. Shumilin , D. S. Smirnov , J. Rautert , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

We utilize simulations of spin-polarized electron scattering by a chain of localized quantum spins to show that energy and linear momentum conservation laws impose strong constraints on the properties of magnetic excitations induced by spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Alexander Mitrofanov , Sergei Urazhdin

We study coherent dynamics of tight-binding systems interacting with static and oscillating external fields. We consider Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark localization caused by dc fields, and compare these effects to dynamic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Martin Holthaus , Daniel W. Hone

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 transport measurements on a lateral double dot produced by combining local anodic oxidation and electron beam lithography. We investigate the tunability of our device and demonstrate, that we can switch between capacitive and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Rogge , C. Fuhner , U. F. Keyser , R. J. Haug

Addressing the feasibilty of quantum communication with electrons we consider entangled spin states of electrons in a double-dot which is weakly coupled to in--and outgoing leads. We show that the entanglement of two electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Loss , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

An alternating electric field, applied to a quantum dot, couples to the electron spin via the spin-orbit interaction. We analyze different types of spin-orbit coupling known in the literature and find two efficient mechanisms of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vitaly N. Golovach , Massoud Borhani , Daniel Loss

We study the nonlinear classical dynamics of an electron confined in a double dot potential and subjected to a spin-orbit coupling and a constant external magnetic field. It is shown that due to the spin orbit coupling, the energy can be…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , A. Komnik , J. Berakdar

We present a theoretical approach to study the effects of an ac-field applied to quantum dots with semi-spherical symmetry. Using the Floquet formalism for this periodically driven system, the time-dependent Hamiltonian in the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Arezky H. Rodríguez , L. Meza-Montes , C. Trallero-Giner , S. E. Ulloa

We develop a theory for spin transport and magnetization dynamics in a quantum-dot spin valve, i.e., two magnetic reservoirs coupled to a quantum dot. Our theory is able to take into account effects of strong correlations. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 N. M. Gergs , S. A. Bender , R. A. Duine , D. Schuricht

Spin-orbit coupling is studied using the quantum interference corrections to conductance in AlGaN/AlN/GaN two-dimensional electron systems where the carrier density is controlled by the persistent photoconductivity effect. All the samples…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Kurdak , N. Biyikli , U. Ozgur , H. Morkoc , V. I. Litvinov

Magnetic noise from randomly fluctuating nuclear spin ensembles is the dominating source of decoherence for many multi-quantum-dot multielectron spin qubits. Here we investigate in detail the effect of a DC electric current on the coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Jørgen Holme Qvist , Jeroen Danon

The spin of an electron trapped in a quantum dot is a promising candidate implementation of a qubit for quantum information processing. We study the central spin problem of the effect of the hyperfine interaction between such an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-29 Gang Chen , Doron L. Bergman , Leon Balents

Recently it has been shown that ac-driven double quantum dots can act as spin pumps and spin filters. By calculating the current through the system for each spin polarization, by means of the time evolution of the reduced density matrix in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael Sánchez , Ernesto Cota , Ramón Aguado , Gloria Platero

Few-electron systems confined in a quantum dot laterally coupled to a surrounding quantum ring in the presence of an external magnetic field are studied by exact diagonalization. The distribution of electrons between the dot and the ring is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , S. Bednarek

For a double quantum dot system in a parallel geometry, we demonstrate that by combining the effects of a flux and driving an electrical current through the structure, the spin correlations between electrons localized in the dots can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 C. A. Büsser , F. Heidrich-Meisner

We exploit the non-dissipative dynamics of a pair of electrons in a large square quantum dot to perform singlet-triplet spin measurement through a single charge detection and show how this may be used for entanglement swapping and…

We investigate current fluctuations in a three-terminal quantum dot in the sequential tunneling regime. Dynamical spin blockade can be induced when the spin-degeneracy of the dot states is lifted by a magnetic field. This results in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Cottet , W. Belzig

Spin-dependent transport measurements through a double quantum dot are a valuable tool for detecting both the coherent evolution of the spin state of a single electron as well as the hybridization of two-electron spin states. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. H. L. Koppens , C. Buizert , I. T. Vink , K. C. Nowack , T. Meunier , L. P. Kouwenhoven , L. M. K. Vandersypen

Using the recently reported mode locking effect we demonstrate a highly robust control of electron spin coherence in an ensemble of (In,Ga)As quantum dots during the single spin coherence time. The spin precession in a transverse magnetic…