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Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a key interaction in spintronics, allowing an electrical control of spin or magnetization and, vice versa, a magnetic control of electrical current. However, recent advances have revealed much broader…

An electron spin qubit in silicon quantum dots holds promise for quantum information processing due to the scalability and long coherence. An essential ingredient to recent progress is the employment of micromagnets. They generate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a relativistic effect, where an electron moving in an electric field experiences an effective magnetic field in its rest frame. In crystals without inversion symmetry, it lifts the spin degeneracy and leads to…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is an essential ingredient in topological materials, conventional and quantum-gas based alike.~Engineered spin-orbit coupling in ultracold atom systems --unique in their experimental control and measurement…

The ability to manipulate electron spins with voltage-dependent electric fields is key to the operation of quantum spintronics devices, such as spin-based semiconductor qubits. A natural approach to electrical spin control exploits the…

We report the observation of tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold $^{87}$Rb atoms in hyperfine spin-1 states. Different from most earlier experiments where atomic SOC of pseudo-spin-1/2 are synthesized with Raman coupling lasers,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-05 Xinyu Luo , Lingna Wu , Jiyao Chen , Qing Guan , Kuiyi Gao , Zhi-Fang Xu , L. You , Ruquan Wang

While bulk silicon has long been understood to exhibit relatively weak spin-orbit coupling (SOC), confinement of electrons to quantum dots (QDs) at a silicon heterointerface results in significantly larger SOC. This is a concern for…

A semiconductor nanowire quantum dot with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can be used to achieve a spin-orbit qubit. In contrast to a spin qubit, the spin-orbit qubit can respond to an external ac electric field, an effect called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Rui Li , J. Q. You , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

While traditionally considered a deleterious effect in quantum dot spin qubits, the spin-orbit interaction is recently being revisited as it allows for rapid coherent control by on-chip AC electric fields. For electrons in bulk silicon, SOC…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the intrinsic interaction between a particle spin and its motion, is responsible for various important phenomena, ranging from atomic fine structure to topological condensed matter physics. The recent experimental…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-05 Yongping Zhang , Gang Chen , Chuanwei Zhang

The electrical control of a spin qubit in a quantum dot relies on spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which could be either intrinsic to the underlying crystal lattice or heterostructure, or extrinsic via, for example, a micro-magnet. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

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

We investigate the effects of the orientation of the magnetic field and the orientation of a quantum dot, with respect to crystallographic coordinates, on the quality of an electrically controlled qubit realized in a gated semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Ognjen Malkoc , Peter Stano , Daniel Loss

The spin-orbit coupling influences the total spin of semiconductor quantum dots. We analyze the theoretical prediction for the combined effects of spin-orbit coupling, weak vertical magnetic fields and deformation of the dot. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra , Enrico Lipparini

We propose a novel approach to explore the properties of a quantum dot in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction and in a tilted magnetic field. The spin-orbit coupling within the quantum dot manifest itself as anti-crossing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hong-Yi Chen , Vadim Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Silicon spin qubits are a promising quantum computing platform offering long coherence times, small device sizes, and compatibility with industry-backed device fabrication techniques. In recent years, high fidelity single-qubit and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 A. J. Sigillito , J. C. Loy , D. M. Zajac , M. J. Gullans , L. F. Edge , J. R. Petta

We theoretically study the effect of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on anomalous quantum oscillations in InAs/GaSb quantum wells. By comparing different cases, we show that SOC induces two opposing effects on anomalous quantum oscillations: it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Xinlong Du , Chao Wang , Bo Ying , Juntao Song

Synthetic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in controlled quantum systems such as cold atoms or trapped ions has been of great interest. Here we show, both theoretically and computationally, a simplest realization of SOC using two-level cold atoms…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 Qi Zhang , Jiangbin Gong , C. H. Oh

Two-level quantum systems with strong spin-orbit coupling allow for all-electrical qubit control and long-distance qubit coupling via microwave and phonon cavities, making them of particular interest for scalable quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 J. van der Heijden , T. Kobayashi , M. G. House , J. Salfi , S. Barraud , R. Lavieville , M. Y. Simmons , S. Rogge

Silicon quantum dots are considered an excellent platform for spin qubits, partly due to their weak spin-orbit interaction. However, the sharp interfaces in the heterostructures induce a small but significant spin-orbit interaction which…

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