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We propose a novel scheme to efficiently polarize and manipulate the electron spin in a quantum dot. This scheme is based on the spin-orbit interaction and it possesses following advantages: (1) The direction and the strength of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Spin-orbit coupling is relatively weak for electrons in bulk silicon, but enhanced interactions are reported in nanostructures such as the quantum dots used for spin qubits. These interactions have been attributed to various dissimilar…

We investigate the electric manipulation of a single electron spin in a single gate-defined quantum dot. We observe that so-far neglected differences between the hyperfine and spin-orbit mediated electric dipole spin resonance conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-27 M. Shafiei , K. C. Nowack , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , L. M. K. Vandersypen

We present measurements on gate-defined double quantum dots in Ge-Si core-shell nanowires, which we tune to a regime with visible shell filling in both dots. We observe a Pauli spin blockade and can assign the measured leakage current at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Matthias Brauns , Joost Ridderbos , Ang Li , Erik P. A. M. Bakkers , Wilfred G. van der Wiel , Floris A. Zwanenburg

Extending a previous work on spin precession in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling, we study the role of deformation in the external confinement. Small elliptical deformations are enough to alter the precessional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

Owing to exchange interaction between the exciton and magnetic ion, a quantum dot embedding a single magnetic ion is a great platform for optical control of individual spin. In particular, a quantum dot provides strong and sharp optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Aleksander Rodek , Tomasz Kazimierczuk , Aleksander Bogucki , Tomasz Smoleński , Wojciech Pacuski , Piotr Kossacki

The properties of quantum systems interacting with their environment, commonly called open quantum systems, can be strongly affected by this interaction. While this can lead to unwanted consequences, such as causing decoherence in qubits…

We determine theoretically the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the magnetic excitation spectrum of itinerant multi-orbital systems, with specific application to iron-based superconductors. Our microscopic model includes a realistic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-24 Daniel D. Scherer , Brian M. Andersen

The influence of the spin-orbit interactions on the energy spectrum of two-electron laterally coupled quantum dots is investigated. The effective Hamiltonian for a spin qubit pair proposed in F. Baruffa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 126401…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fabio Baruffa , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We study the spin-spin coupling between two single-electron quantum dots due to the Coulomb and spin-orbit interactions, in the absence of tunneling between the dots. We find an anisotropic XY spin-spin interaction that is proportional to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mircea Trif , Vitaly N. Golovach , Daniel Loss

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 novel method and nanodevice are introduced that allows to rotate the single electron spin confined in a gated electrostatic InSb nanowire quantum dot. Proposed method does not require application of any (oscillating or static) external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 J. Pawłowski , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

We investigate effects of spin-orbit splitting on electronic transport in a spin valve consisting of a large quantum dot defined on a two-dimensional electron gas with two ferromagnetic contacts. In the presence of both structure inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Saarikoski , W. Wetzels , G. E. W. Bauer

Holes in nanowires have drawn significant attention in recent years because of the strong spin-orbit interaction, which plays an important role in constructing Majorana zero modes and manipulating spin-orbit qubits. Here, from the strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Ting Zhang , He Liu , Fei Gao , Gang Xu , Ke Wang , Xin Zhang , Gang Cao , Ting Wang , Jian-Jun Zhang , Xuedong Hu , Hai-Ou Li , Guo-Ping Guo

We investigate the spin accumulation effect in eccentric semiconductor multichannel rings with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and threaded by a magnetic flux. Due to the finite eccentricity, the spin polarization induced at the borders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. E. Segura , M. J. Sánchez

Spin relaxation of a single electron in a weakly coupled double quantum dot is calculated numerically. The phonon assisted spin flip is allowed by the presence of the linear and cubic spin-orbit couplings and nuclear spins. The rate is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Martin Raith , Thomas Pangerl , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

Here we propose an isotropic all electrical spin analyzer in a quantum ring with spin-orbit coupling by analytically and numerically modeling how the charge transmission rates depend on the polarization of the incident spin. The formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Shenglin Peng , Wenchen Luo , Jian Sun , Ai-Min Guo , Fangping Ouyang , Tapash Chakraborty

We study the exchange interaction between two hole-spin qubits in a double quantum dot setup in a silicon nanowire in the presence of magnetic and electric fields. Based on symmetry arguments we show that there exists an effective spin that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Bence Hetényi , Christoph Kloeffel , Daniel Loss

One-dimensional quantum wires are considered as prospective elements for spin transport and manipulation in spintronics. We study spin dynamics in semiconductor GaAs-like nanowires with disorder and spin-orbit interaction by using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Carlos Echeverría-Arrondo , E. Ya. Sherman

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