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We consider the relaxation of a spin qubit in a quantum dot propagating as a whole in a one-dimensional semiconductor with hyperfine coupling. We show that this motion leads to qualitatively new features in this process compared to static…

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Magnetic noise of atomic nuclear spins is a major problem for solid state spin qubits. Highly-polarized nuclei would not only overcome this obstacle, but also make nuclear spins a useful quantum information resource. However, achieving…

We study theoretically spin decoherence and intrinsic spin noise in semiconductor quantum wires caused by an interplay of electron hopping between the localized states and the hyperfine interaction of electron and nuclear spins. At a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 A. V. Shumilin , E. Ya. Sherman , M. M. Glazov

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

We investigate the low-temperature magneto-transport properties of individual Ge/Si core/shell nanowires. Negative magneto-conductance was observed, which is a signature of one-dimensional weak antilocalization of holes in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-12 Xiao-Jie Hao , Tao Tu , Gang Cao , Cheng Zhou , Hai-Ou Li , Guang-Can Guo , Wayne Y. Fung , Zhongqing Ji , Guo-Ping Guo , Wei Lu

We demonstrate that the magnetization in magnetic semiconductors exhibits nutational motion when subjected to an external magnetic field. This behavior originates from the splitting of the conduction-electron band which induces anisotropic,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-09 H. Kachkachi

The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in semiconductors is strongly influenced by structural asymmetries, as prominently observed in bulk crystal structures that lack inversion symmetry. Here, we study an additional effect on the SOC: the asymmetry…

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Chwiej

We investigate quantum coherence of electron spin transported through a semiconductor spintronic device, where spins are envisaged to be controlled by electrical means via spin-orbit interactions. To quantify the degree of spin coherence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma

We investigate a celebrated problem of one dimensional tight binding model in the presence of disorder leading to Anderson localization from a novel perspective. A binary disorder is assumed to be created by immobile heavy particles for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-11 Arkadiusz Kosior , Jan Major , Marcin Płodzień , Jakub Zakrzewski

The magnetic properties of the diluted magnetic semiconductor Ga_{1-x}Mn_{x}As are studied within the dynamical cluster approximation. We use the k-dot-p Hamiltonian to describe the electronic structure of GaAs with spin-orbit coupling and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Unjong Yu , Abdol-Madjid Nili , Karlis Mikelsons , Brian Moritz , Juana Moreno , Mark Jarrell

Electronic transport with a line (or a few lines) of Anderson type disorder in a zigzag graphene nanoribbon is investigated in presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Such line disorders give rise to peculiar behavior in both charge as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu , Santanu K. Maiti

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

Torsional oscillations of a free-standing semiconductor beam are shown to cause spin-dependent oscillating potentials that spin-polarize an applied charge current in the presence of intentional or disorder scattering potentials. We propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-29 Alexey A. Kovalev , Liviu P. Zârbo , Y. Tserkovnyak , G. E. W. Bauer , Jairo Sinova

We analyze the fate of spiral order in a one-dimensional system of localized magnetic moments coupled to itinerant electrons under a voltage bias. Within an adiabatic approximation for the dynamics of the localized spins, and in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Xiaohu Han , Pedro Ribeiro , Stefano Chesi

We show that the tails of the asymptotic density distribution of a quantum wave packet that localizes in the the presence of random or quasiperiodic disorder can be described by the diagonal term of the projection over the eingenstates of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-01-28 Marco Moratti , Michele Modugno

We investigate static charge and spin density modulation patterns along a ferromagnet/semiconductor single junction quantum wire in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Coherent scattering theory is used to calculate the charge and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Minchul Lee , Christoph Bruder

Prospect of building spintronic devices in which electron spins store and transport information has attracted strong attention in recent years. Here we present some of our representative theoretical results on three fundamental aspects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

We study theoretically the spin-orbit interaction of electrons confined in a tubular semiconductor nanowire, between an inner semiconductor core and an outer metallic extra shell. A band off-offset potential is present at the inner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Tudor-Gabriel Dumitru , Anna Sitek , Gunnar Thorgilsson , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Andrei Manolescu

A theory of spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructures, based on a unified semiclassical description of ballistic and diffusive transport in semiconductors, is outlined. The aim is to provide a framework…

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