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Electron transport properties in a triple-quantum-dot ring with three terminals are theoretically studied. By introducing local Rashba spin-orbit interaction on an individual quantum dot, we calculate the charge and spin currents in one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Weijiang Gong , Yisong Zheng , Tianquan Lv

In this work, we show that a gate electric field, applied in the base of the field-effect devices, leads to inducing spin-orbit interactions (Rashba and linear Dresselhauss) and confines the transport electrons in a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. L. Cardoso , H. Hernández-Saldaña

We report on $\vec{k}\cdot\vec{p}$ calculations of Rashba spin-orbit coupling controlled by external gates in InAs/InAsP core-shell nanowires. We show that charge spilling in the barrier material allows for a stronger symmetry breaking than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Wójcik , A. Bertoni , G. Goldoni

In order to model the phase-coherent scattering of electrons in two-dimensional electron gases in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a general partial-wave expansion is developed for scattering from a cylindrically symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jamie D. Walls , Jian Huang , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller

Inefficient screening of electric fields in nanoconductors makes electric manipulation of electronic transport in nanodevices possible. Accordingly, electrostatic (charge) gating is routinely used to affect and control the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We present an approach for entangling electron spin qubits localized on spatially separated impurity atoms or quantum dots via a multi-electron, two-level quantum dot. The effective exchange interaction mediated by the dot can be understood…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 V. Srinivasa , H. Xu , J. M. Taylor

Motion of electrons can influence their spins through a fundamental effect called spin-orbit interaction. This interaction provides a way to electrically control spins and as such lies at the foundation of spintronics. Even at the level of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Nadj-Perge , S. M. Frolov , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We theoretically analyze a system where two electrons are trapped separately in two quantum dots on a suspended carbon nanotube (CNT), subject to external ac electric driving. An indirect mechanically-induced coupling of two distant single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Heng Wang , Guido Burkard

We study the tunability of the spin-orbit interaction in a two-dimensional electron gas with a front and a back gate electrode by monitoring the spin precession frequency of drifting electrons using time-resolved Kerr rotation. The Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 M. Studer , G. Salis , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

We show theoretically that arbitrary coherent rotations can be performed quickly (with a gating time ~1 ns) and with high fidelity on the spin of a single confined electron using control of exchange only, without the need for spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Coish , Daniel Loss

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

The usual models for electrical spin manipulation in semiconductor quantum dots assume that the confinement potential is separable in the three spatial dimensions and that the AC drive field is homogeneous. However, the electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Biel Martinez , José Carlos Abadillo-Uriel , Esteban A. Rodríguez-Mena , Yann-Michel Niquet

To an electron moving in free space an electric field appears as a magnetic field which interacts with and can reorient the electron spin. In semiconductor quantum wells this spin-orbit interaction seems to offer the possibility of…

Holes confined in semiconductor nanostructures realize qubits where the quantum mechanical spin is strongly mixed with the quantum orbital angular momentum. The remarkable spin-orbit coupling allows for fast all electrical manipulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Vincent P. Michal , Benjamin Venitucci , Yann-Michel Niquet

Influence of resonant oscillating electromagnetic field on a single electron in coupled lateral quantum dots in the presence of phonon-induced relaxation and decoherence is investigated. Using symmetry arguments it is shown that spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

A single electron spin in a double quantum dot in a magnetic field is considered in terms of a four-level system. By describing the electron motion between the potential minima by spin-conserving tunneling and spin flip caused by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yi-Chao Li , Xi Chen , J. G. Muga , E. Ya. Sherman

An alternating electric field, applied to a quantum dot, couples to the electron spin via the spin-orbit interaction. We analyze different types of spin-orbit coupling known in the literature and find two efficient mechanisms of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vitaly N. Golovach , Massoud Borhani , Daniel Loss

The emergent induction of spiral magnets that was proposed [Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 58, 120909 (2019)] and recently demonstrated [Nature 586, 232 (2020)] is shown to be further extended by a comprehensive treatment of the Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Jun'ichi Ieda , Yuta Yamane

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 propose an experiment to observe coherent oscillations in a single quantum dot with the oscillations driven by spin-orbit interaction. This is achieved without spin-polarised leads, and relies on changing the strength of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Debald , Clive Emary