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We consider a double quantum dot whose energy detuning is controlled by an ac electric field. We demonstrate an energy configuration for which the ac-induced current flowing through the double dot directly probes the spin-orbit anticrossing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 G. Giavaras , Yasuhiro Tokura

We study electron transport through a multi-level quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of local Coulomb repulsion. Motivated by recent experiments, we compute the level splitting induced by the spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-29 S. Grap , V. Meden , S. Andergassen

We investigate a silicon single-electron transistor (SET) in a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structure by applying a magnetic field perpendicular to the sample surface. The quantum dot is defined electrostatically in a point contact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Binhui Hu , C. H. Yang

We estimate the triplet-singlet relaxation rate due to spin-orbit coupling assisted by phonon emission in weakly-confined quantum dots. Our results for two and four electrons show that the different triplet-singlet relaxation trends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan I. Climente , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Massimo Rontani , Elisa Molinari

We investigate the singlet-triplet relaxation due to the spin-orbit coupling together with the electron-phonon scattering in two-electron multivalley silicon single quantum dots, using the exact diagonalization method and the Fermi golden…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-30 L. Wang , K. Shen , B. Y. Sun , M. W. Wu

We study the magnetic field induced singlet/triplet transition for two electrons in vertically coupled quantum dots by exact diagonalization of the Coulomb interaction. We identify the different mechanisms occurring in the transition,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Devis Bellucci , Massimo Rontani , Filippo Troiani , Guido Goldoni , Elisa Molinari

We study two-electron states confined in two coupled quantum dots formed by a short-range potential in a two-dimensional topological insulator. It is shown that there is a fairly wide range of the system parameters, where the ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

The influence of hyperfine coupling to nuclear spins and of their quadrupolar splitting on the induced moment order in singlet ground state magnets is investigated. The latter are found among non-Kramers f electron compounds. Without…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-19 Peter Thalmeier

Serial double quantum dots created in semiconductor nanostructures provide a versatile platform for investigating two-electron spin quantum states, which can be tuned by electrostatic gating and an external magnetic field. In this work, we…

We consider the sub-gap physics of a hybrid double-quantum dot Cooper-pair splitter with large single-level spacings, in the presence of tunnelling between the dots and finite Coulomb intra- and inter-dot Coulomb repulsion. In the limit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Robert Hussein , Lina Jaurigue , Michele Governale , Alessandro Braggio

We investigate the transport properties of a quantum dot coupled to leads interacting with a multi-spin system using the generalized master equation within the Coulomb blockade regime. We find that if two states for each scattering region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Eric D. Switzer , Xiao-Guang Zhang , Volodymyr Turkowski , Talat S. Rahman

We theoretically study the nuclear spin dynamics driven by electron transport and hyperfine interaction in an electrically-defined double quantum dot (DQD) in the Pauli-blockade regime. We derive a master-equation-based framework and show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Martin J. A. Schuetz , Eric M. Kessler , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , J. Ignacio Cirac , Geza Giedke

The spin dynamics in two electron double quantum dots embedded in two dimensional electron gas at the interface between SrTiO$_3$ and LaAlO$_3$ is studied by an exact numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 B. Szafran , M. Zegrodnik , M. P. Nowak , R. Citro , P. Wojcik

We study three-electron energy spectra in Si/SiGe single and vertically coupled double quantum dots where all the relevant effects, such as, the Zeeman splitting, spin-orbit coupling, valley coupling and electron-electron Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Z. Liu , L. Wang , K. Shen

We study spectral and transport properties of interacting quantum dots with spin. Two particular model systems are investigated: Lateral multilevel and two parallel quantum dots. In both cases different paths through the system can give…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Boese , W. Hofstetter , H. Schoeller

Spin-flips are one of the limiting factors for spin-based information processing. We demonstrate a transport approach for determining the spin-flip rates of a self-assembled InAs double quantum dot occupied by a single electron. In such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Olfa Dani , Robert Hussein , Johannes C. Bayer , Klaus Pierz , Sigmund Kohler , Rolf J. Haug

The exchange interaction in a singlet-triplet qubit defined by two-electron states in the double-quantum-dot system ("two-electron singlet-triplet qubit") typically varies monotonically with the exchange interaction and thus carries no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Guo Xuan Chan , Xin Wang

We implement a technique for measuring the singlet-triplet energy splitting responsible for spin-to-charge conversion in semiconductor quantum dots. This method, which requires fast, single-shot charge measurement, reliably extracts an…

Controlling electron spins in double quantum dots allows individual electrons to be trapped and manipulated for next-generation solid-state qubit devices. In this paper, the study analyzes spin relaxation due to deformation potentials of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Sanjay Prabhakar

Orbital modeling of two electron spins confined in a double quantum dot is revisited. We develop an extended Hund Mulliken approach that includes excited orbitals, allowing for a triplet configuration with both electrons residing in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Zack White , Guy Ramon