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Semiconductor spin qubits offer a unique opportunity for scalable quantum computation by leveraging classical transistor technology. Hole spin qubits benefit from fast all-electrical qubit control and sweet spots to counteract charge and…

We have studied the physical processes responsible for the spin -flip in GaAs quantum dots. We have calculated the rates for different mechanisms which are related to spin-orbit coupling and cause a spin-flip during the inelastic relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander V. Khaetskii , Yuli V. Nazarov

We use numerically exact diagonalization to calculate the spin-orbit and phonon-induced triplet-singlet relaxation rate in a two-electron quantum dot exposed to a tilted magnetic field. Our scheme includes a three-dimensional description of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-19 J. P. Hansen , S. A. Sørngård , M. Førre , E. Rasanen

We propose a setup for universal and electrically controlled quantum information processing with hole spins in Ge/Si core/shell nanowire quantum dots (NW QDs). Single-qubit gates can be driven through electric-dipole-induced spin resonance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Christoph Kloeffel , Mircea Trif , Peter Stano , Daniel Loss

We consider spin-lattice relaxation processes for electrons trapped in lateral Si quantum dots in a $[001]$ inversion layer. Such dots are characterized by strong confinement in the direction perpendicular to the surface and much weaker…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 B. A. Glavin , K. W. Kim

We investigate the effect of an applied magnetic field on resonant tunneling of electrons through the bound states of self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) embedded within an (AlGa)As tunnel barrier. At low temperatures (no more than 2 K),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Vdovin , Yu. N. Khanin , O. Makarovsky , A. Patane , L. Eaves , M. Henini , C. J. Mellor , K. A. Benedict , R. Airey

We investigate a spin-full double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to the leads in a pseudospin valve configuration. The interplay of interaction and interference produces in the stability diagram a rich variety of resonances, modulated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Christoph Rohrmeier , Andrea Donarini

In this work, we investigate hole spin-flip transitions in a single self-assembled InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot. We find the hole wave functions using the 8-band $kp$ model and calculate phonon-assisted spin relaxation rates for the ground-state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Mateusz Krzykowski , Krzysztof Gawarecki , Pawel Machnikowski

We present analytical and numerical investigation of spectral and transport properties of a quadruple quantum-dot (QQD) structure which is one of the popular low-dimensional systems in the context of fundamental quantum physics study,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 M. Yu. Kagan , V. V. Val'kov , S. V. Aksenov

g-factor tuning of electrons in quantum dots is studied as function of in-plane and perpendicular magnetic fields for different confinements. Rashba and Dresselhaus effects are considered, and comparison is made between wide- and narrow-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 C. F. Destefani , Sergio E. Ulloa

The coexistence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) in semiconductor quantum wells leads to an anisotropic effective field coupled to carriers' spins. We demonstrate a gate-controlled anisotropy in Aharonov-Casher (AC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Fumiya Nagasawa , Andres A. Reynoso , José Pablo Baltanás , Diego Frustaglia , Henri Saarikoski , Junsaku Nitta

Spin qubits hosted in silicon (Si) quantum dots (QD) are attractive due to their exceptionally long coherence times and compatibility with the silicon transistor platform. To achieve electrical control of spins for qubit scalability, recent…

We identify the presence of monoatomic steps at the Si/SiGe or Si/SiO$_2$ interface as a dominant source of variations in the dephasing time of Si quantum dot (QD) spin qubits. First, using atomistc tight-binding calculations we show that…

We describe the effect of geometric phases induced by either classical or quantum electric fields acting on single electron spins in quantum dots in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. On one hand, applied electric fields can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-09 Pablo San-Jose , Burkhard Scharfenberger , Gerd Schön , Alexander Shnirman , Gergely Zarand

Strain-induced gradients of local electric fields in semiconductor quantum dots can couple to the quadrupole moments of nuclear spins. We develop a theory describing the influence of this quadrupolar coupling (QC) on the spin correlators of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 N. A. Sinitsyn , Yan Li , S. A. Crooker , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

Spin-flip rates in GaAs quantum dots can be quite slow, thus opening up the possibilities to manipulate spin states in the dots. We present here estimations of inelastic spin-flip rates mediated by hyperfine interaction with nuclei. Under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Yuli V. Nazarov , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The spin relaxation time due to the electron-acoustic phonon scattering in GaAs quantum dots is studied after the exact diagonalization of the electron Hamiltonian with the spin-orbit coupling. Different effects such as the magnetic field,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-02 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu , C. Lü

Spin relaxation is investigated theoretically in two-dimensional systems. Various semiconductor structures of both n- and p-types are studied in detail. The most important spin relaxation mechanisms are considered. The spin relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. S. Averkiev , L. E. Golub , M. Willander

We study single-qubit gates performed via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) on a spin qubit implemented in a quantum dot system in the presence of phonons. We analyze the interplay of various kinds of errors resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Roszak , A. Grodecka , P. Machnikowski , T. Kuhn

Excitonic transitions offer a possible route to ultrafast optical spin manipulation in coupled nanostructures. We perform here a detailed study of the three principal exciton-mediated decoherence channels for optically-controlled electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Erik M. Gauger , Ahsan Nazir , Simon C. Benjamin , Thomas M. Stace , Brendon W. Lovett