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Strong magnetic field gradients can produce a synthetic spin-orbit interaction that allows for high fidelity electrical control of single electron spins. We investigate how a field gradient impacts the spin relaxation time T_1 by measuring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 F. Borjans , D. M. Zajac , T. M. Hazard , J. R. Petta

We calculate the spin relaxation rates in a parabolic InSb quantum dots due to the spin interaction with acoustical phonons. We considered the deformation potential mechanism as the dominant electron-phonon coupling in the Pavlov-Firsov…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-15 A. M. Alcalde , C. L. Romano , L. Sanz , G. E. Marques

We present full atomistic calculations of the spin-flip time (T$_{1}$) of electrons and holes mediated by acoustic phonons in self-assembled In$_{1-x}$Ga$_x$As/GaAs quantum dots at zero magnetic field. At low magnetic field, the first-order…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Hai Wei , Ming Gong , G-C Guo , Lixin He

First-principles calculations enable accurate predictions of electronic interactions and dynamics. However, computing the electron spin dynamics remains challenging. The spin-orbit interaction causes various dynamical phenomena that couple…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Jinsoo Park , Yao Luo , Jin-Jian Zhou , Marco Bernardi

We study the spin relaxation in an interacting two--dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field for the case that the electron density is close to filling just one Landau sub--level of one spin projection, i.e., for filling factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Apel , Yu. A. Bychkov

We investigate the spin relaxation and decoherence in a single-electron graphene quantum dot with Rashba and intrinsic spin-orbit interactions. We derive an effective spin-phonon Hamiltonian via the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Marco O. Hachiya , Guido Burkard , J. Carlos Egues

We study spin relaxation and decoherence in a GaAs quantum dot due to spin-orbit interaction. We derive an effective Hamiltonian which couples the electron spin to phonons or any other fluctuation of the dot potential. We show that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Vitaly N. Golovach , Alexander Khaetskii , Daniel Loss

We analyze the electron spin relaxation rate $1/T_1$ of individual ion-implanted $^{31}$P donors, in a large set of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) silicon nanoscale devices, with the aim of identifying spin relaxation mechanisms peculiar…

Electron spin relaxation induced by phonon-mediated s-d exchange interaction in a II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum dot is investigated theoretically. The electron-acoustic phonon interaction due to piezoelectric coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , K. Chang

Electron spin relaxation in nanowire-based quantum dots induced by confined phonons is investigated theoretically. Due to the one-dimensional nature of the confined phonons, the van Hove singularities of the confined phonons and the zero of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-27 Y. Yin , M. W. Wu

The spin relaxation time due to the electron-acoustic phonon scattering in GaAs quantum dots is studied after the exact diagonalization of the electron Hamiltonian with the spin-orbit coupling. Different effects such as the magnetic field,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-02 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu , C. Lü

We investigate relaxation and dephasing of an electron spin confined in a semiconductor quantum dot and subject to spin-orbit coupling. Even in vanishing magnetic field, B = 0, slow noise coupling to the electron's orbital degree of freedom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 Pablo San-Jose , Gerd Schön , Alexander Shnirman , Gergely Zarand

We theoretically study the $(1,1)$ triplet to $(0,2)$ singlet relaxation rate in a lateral gate-defined double quantum dot tuned to the regime of Pauli spin blockade. We present a detailed derivation of the effective phonon density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Danon

We observe an experimental signature of the role of the phonons in spin relaxation between triplet and singlet states in a two-electron quantum dot. Using both the external magnetic field and the electrostatic confinement potential, we…

We study the relaxation of a single electron spin in a circular quantum dot in a transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayer defined by electrostatic gating. Transition-metal dichalcogenides provide an interesting and promising arena for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-09 Alexander J. Pearce , Guido Burkard

We have investigated spin relaxation times in CdTe quantum dots doped with a single Mn atom, a prototype of a system where the interaction between a single charge carrier and a single spin takes place. A theoretical model that was used…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Marko D. Petrović , Nenad Vukmirović

We study theoretically spin relaxation during phonon-assisted tunneling of a single electron in self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum-dot molecules formed by vertically stacked dots. We find that the spin-flip tunneling rate may be as high as 1%…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Michał Gawełczyk , Krzysztof Gawarecki

The singlet-triplet relaxation in nanowire-based quantum dots induced by confined phonons is investigated theoretically. Due to the quasi-one-dimensional nature of the confined phonons, the singlet-triplet relaxation rates exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Y. Yin

We study spin-orbit mediated relaxation and dephasing of electron spins in quantum dots. We show that higher order contributions provide a relaxation mechanism that dominates for low magnetic fields and is of geometrical origin. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pablo San-Jose , Gergely Zarand , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

In this paper, we investigate the impact of gating potential and magnetic field on phonon induced spin relaxation rate and the speed of the electrically driven single-qubit operations inside the InSb nanowire spin qubit. We show that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Suzana Miladić , Pavle Stipsić , Edib Dobardžić , Marko Milivojević