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We consider the relative entropy between the vacuum state and a coherent state in linearized quantum gravity around a stationary black hole spacetime. Combining recent results by Casini et al. and Longo with the Raychaudhuri equation, the…
Geometrically frustrated quantum impurities coupled to metallic leads have been shown to exhibit rich behavior with a quantum phase transition separating Kondo screened and local moment phases. Frustration in the quantum impurity can…
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…
We study non-equilibrium electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to metallic leads. We use an alternative equation of motion approach in which we calculate the retarded Green function of the impurity by differentiating Green…
We report the measurement of extremely slow hole spin relaxation dynamics in small ensembles of self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots. Individual spin orientated holes are optically created in the lowest orbital state of each dot and read out…
We employ the dynamical mean-field approximation to study the magnetic properties of a model relevant for the dilute magnetic semiconductors. Our model includes the spin-orbit coupling on the hole bands, the exchange interaction, and the…
We have studied quantum-well-confined holes based on the Luttinger-model description for the valence band of typical semiconductor materials. Even when only the lowest quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) subband is populated, the static spin…
The electronic structure of InAs quantum dots covered with the GaAs(1-y)Sb(y) strain reducing layer has been studied using the k.p theory. We explain previous experimental observations of the red shift of the photoluminescence emission with…
We describe the spin dynamics of an arbitrary localized impurity in an insulating two dimensional antiferromagnet, across the host transition from a paramagnet with a spin gap to a Neel state. The impurity spin susceptibility has a…
We demonstrate the potential of a periodic laser-pulse protocol for dynamic decoupling of hole spins in (In,Ga)As quantum dots from surrounding baths. When doubling the repetition rate of inversionlaser pulses between two reference pulses…
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…
The subtle interplay between quantum statistics and interactions is at the origin of many intriguing quantum phenomena connected to superfluidity and quantum magnetism. The controlled setting of ultracold quantum gases is well suited to…
We formulate the multi-band kp theory of hyperfine interactions for semiconductor nanostructures in the envelope function approximation. We apply this theoretical description to the fluctuations of the longitudinal and transverse Overhauser…
We measure the frequency spectra of random spin fluctuations, or "spin noise", in ensembles of (In,Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) at low temperatures. We employ a spin noise spectrometer based on a sensitive optical Faraday rotation…
Experimental quasi-elastic backscattering and capture (fusion) excitation functions are usually used to extract the s-wave capture probabilities for the heavy-ion reactions. We investigated the $^{16}$O+$^{120}$Sn,$^{144}$Sm,$^{208}$Pb…
We analyze a prototypical particle-in-a-box model for a hole spin qubit. This quantum dot is subjected to static magnetic and electric fields, and to a radio-frequency electric field that drives Rabi oscillations owing to spin-orbit…
Spin manipulation in coupled quantum dots is of interest for quantum information applications. Control of the exchange interaction between electrons and holes via an applied electric field may provide a promising technique for such spin…
The Anderson impurity model for Kondo problem is investigated for arbitrary orbit-spin degeneracy $N$ of the magnetic impurity by the equation of motion method (EOM). By employing a new decoupling scheme, a set self-consistent equations for…
In the study of "holographic complexity", upper bounds on the rate of growth of the (specific) complexity of field theories with holographic duals have attracted much attention. Underlying these upper bounds there are inequalities relating…
The spin 1/2 entropy of electrons trapped in a quantum dot has previously been measured with great accuracy, but the protocol used for that measurement is valid only within a restrictive set of conditions. Here, we demonstrate a novel…