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In a GaAs single quantum dot, the relaxation time T_{1} between spin triplet and singlet states has been measured for the last few even number of electrons. The singlet-triplet energy separation E_{ST} is tuned as a control parameter for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Gang Cao , Ming Xiao , HaiOu Li , Tao Tu , GuoPing Guo

We study the spin dynamics in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas confined in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well. An unusual magnetic field dependence of the spin relaxation is found: as the magnetic field becomes stronger, the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 V. V. Belykh , M. V. Kochiev , D. N. Sob'yanin , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

Using an exact diagonalization approach we show that one- and two-electron InAs quantum dots exhibit avoided crossing in the energy spectra that are induced by the spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane external magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , B. Partoens , W. Pasek

We consider the problem of spin relaxation in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field. We assume that the spin relaxation is induced by the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction, which appears due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Burkov , Leon Balents

We investigate the spin relaxation due to the random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in symmetric GaAs (110) quantum wells from the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. All relevant scatterings, such as the electron-impurity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We measure simultaneously the in-plane electron g-factor and spin relaxation rate in a series of undoped inversion-asymmetric (001)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells by spin-quantum beat spectroscopy. In combination the two quantities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 P. S. Eldridge , J. Hübner , S. Oertel , R. T. Harley , M. Henini , M. Oestreich

In lateral quantum dots, the combined effect of both Dresselhaus and Bychkov-Rashba spin orbit coupling is equivalent to an effective magnetic field B_so which has the opposite sign for s_z=1/2 spin electrons. When the external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Konemann , R. J. Haug , D. K. Maude , V. I. Fal'ko , B. L. Altshuler

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 measure the donor-bound electron longitudinal spin-relaxation time ($T_1$) as a function of magnetic field ($B$) in three high-purity direct-bandgap semiconductors: GaAs, InP, and CdTe, observing a maximum $T_1$ of $1.4~\text{ms}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Todd Karin , Xiayu Linpeng , M. V. Durnev , Russell Barbour , M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman , Simon Watkins , Satoru Seto , Kai-Mei C. Fu

The spin relaxation time $T_{1}$ in zinc blende GaN quantum dot is investigated for different magnetic field, well width and quantum dot diameter. The spin relaxation caused by the two most important spin relaxation mechanisms in zinc…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-11 M. Q. Weng , Y. Y. Wang , M. W. Wu

We analyze orbital effects of an in-plane magnetic field on the spin structure of states of a gated quantum dot based in a two-dimensional electron gas. Starting with a $k \cdot p$ Hamiltonian, we perturbatively calculate these effects for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Peter Stano , Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Marcel Serina , Leon C. Camenzind , Dominik M. Zumbühl , Daniel Loss

The spin relaxation in a 1D InAs quantum dot with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling under driving THz magnetic fields is investigated by developing the kinetic equation with the help of the Floquet-Markov theory, which is generalized to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Jiang , M. W. Wu

Phonon-induced spin relaxation rates in quantum dots are studied as function of in-plane and perpendicular magnetic fields, temperature and electric field, for different dot sizes. We consider Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit mixing in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. F. Destefani , Sergio E. Ulloa

Aiming at the optimization of the spin diffusion length in (001) GaAs quantum wells, we explore the effect of the anisotropy of the spin-orbit coupling on the competition between the Rashba and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings by…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu , I. C. da Cunha Lima

A method is presented to calculate the spin relaxation times T1, T2 due to a non-uniform magnetic field, and the linear-in-electric-field precession frequency shift {\delta}{\omega}E when an electric field is present, in the diffusion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Steven M. Clayton

We study the relaxation of a single electron spin in a circular gate-tunbable quantum dot in gapped graphene. Direct coupling of the electron spin to out-of-plane phonons via the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling leads to a relaxation time T_1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 P. R. Struck , Guido Burkard

We observe millisecond spin-flip relaxation times of donor-bound electrons in high-purity n-GaAs . This is three orders of magnitude larger than previously reported lifetimes in n-GaAs . Spin-flip times are measured as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kai-Mei C. Fu , Wenzheng Yeo , Susan Clark , Charles Santori , Colin Stanley , M. C. Holland , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Spin properties of single electron states in laterally coupled quantum dots in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field are studied by exact numerical diagonalization. Dresselhaus (linear and cubic) and Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We study the impacts of the magnetic field direction on the spin-manipulation and the spin-relaxation in a one-dimensional quantum dot with strong spin-orbit coupling. The energy spectrum and the corresponding eigenfunctions in the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Zhi-Hai Liu , Rui Li

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