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Many complex systems can spontaneously oscillate under non-periodic forcing. Such self-oscillators are commonplace in biological and technological assemblies where temporal periodicity is needed, such as the beating of a human heart or the…

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

Spontaneous nuclear polarization is predicted in double quantum dots in the spin-blocked electron transport regime. The polarization results from an instability of the zero-polarization state when singlet and triplet electron energy levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 M. S. Rudner , L. S. Levitov

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

We investigate the persistent current influenced by the spin fluctuations in a mesoscopic ring weakly coupled to a quantum dot. It is shown that the Kondo effect gives rise to some unusual features of the persistent current in the limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sam Young Cho , Kicheon Kang , Chul Koo Kim , Chang-Mo Ryu

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

Theoretical conditions to excite self-oscillation in a spin torque oscillator consisting of a perpendicularly magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer are investigated by analytically solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Takahiro Ito , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Sumito Tsunegi , Hitoshi Kubota

A persistent current qubit has two quantum states with opposite currents flowing in a superconducting loop. Their magnetic field couple to nuclear spins. The qubit state is not only perturbed by the spins but it also gets entangled with the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek Dziarmaga

Self-oscillations of the magnetization due to self-induced torque (SIT) in a magnetic double tunnel junction that consists of perpendicularly polarized, pinned and free layers is investigated along with the field-like torque (FLT). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 R. Arun , R. Gopal , V. K. Chandrasekar , M. Lakshmanan

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 critical current of the self-oscillation of spin torque oscillator (STO) consisting of a perpendicularly magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer was studied by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Shingo Tamaru , Hiroko Arai , Sumito Tsunegi , Hitoshi Kubota , Hiroshi Imamura

We investigated the time dependence of two-electron spin states in a double quantum dot fabricated in an InAs nanowire. In this system, spin-orbit interaction has substantial influence on the spin states of confined electrons. Pumping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-30 A. Pfund , I. Shorubalko , K. Ensslin , R. Leturcq

We examine electronic transport in a spin-blockaded double quantum dot. We show that by tuning the strength of the spin-orbit interaction the current flowing through the double dot exhibits a dip at zero magnetic field or a peak at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Giavaras , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori

The paper proposes the method to analyze the internal dynamics of nanoscopic systems by periodic modulation of the electrochemical potentials of the attached leads and measuring the time-averaged current. The idea is presented using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

Persistent, oscillatory charge and spin currents are shown to be driven by a two-component terahertz laser pulse in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin orbit interactions (SOI) linear in the electron momentum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Marian Nita , Bogdan Ostahie , D. C. Marinescu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We consider the dynamic nuclear spin polarization (DNP) using two electrons in a double quantum dot in presence of external magnetic field and spin-orbit interaction, in various schemes of periodically repeated sweeps through the S-T+…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Izhar Neder , Mark S. Rudner , Bertrand I. Halperin

An alternative explanation to the mechanism behind self-sustained oscillations of ions in direct current (DC) glow discharges is provided. Such description is distinguished from the one provided by the fluid models, where oscillations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Sung Nae Cho

Double quantum dot systems in the spin blockade regime exhibit leakage currents that have been attributed to the Hyperfine interaction. We model weakly coupled double-dot transport using a rate equation approach which accounts for Hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Inarrea , C. Lopez-Monis , A. H. MacDonald , G. Platero

Spin qubits based on interacting spins in double quantum dots have been successfully demonstrated. Readout of the qubit state involves a conversion of spin to charge information, universally achieved by taking advantage of a spin blockade…

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