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Electrons in graphene are theoretically expected to retain spin states much longer than most materials, making graphene a promising platform for spintronics and quantum information technologies. Here, we use first-principles density-matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-17 Adela Habib , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

We present numerical results for electron spin relaxation rates for single and laterally coupled double GaAs quantum dots in a perpendicular magnetic field. As source of spin relaxation we consider hyperfine interaction with the nuclear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-17 Johannes Voss , Daniela Pfannkuche

We predict "intrinsic" spin relaxation times ($T_{1}$) of graphite due to spin-orbit-phonon interaction, i.e., the combination of spin-orbit coupling and electron-phonon interaction, using our developed first-principles density-matrix…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Junqing Xu

We study spin relaxation and decoherence caused by electron-lattice and spin-orbit interaction and predict striking effects induced by magnetic fields $B$. For particular values of $B$, destructive interference occurs resulting in ultralong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-04 Denis V. Bulaev , Bjoern Trauzettel , Daniel Loss

Spin relaxation of a single electron in a weakly coupled double quantum dot is calculated numerically. The phonon assisted spin flip is allowed by the presence of the linear and cubic spin-orbit couplings and nuclear spins. The rate is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Martin Raith , Thomas Pangerl , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

The phonon-induced spin relaxation in a two-dimensional quantum dot embedded inside a semiconductor slab is investigated theoretically. An enhanced relaxation rate is found due to the phonon van Hove singularities. Oppositely, a vanishing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Y. Liao , Y. N. Chen , D. S. Chuu , T. Brandes

An effective spin relaxation mechanism that leads to electron spin decoherence in a quantum dot is proposed. In contrast to the common calculations of spin-flip transitions between the Kramers doublets, we take into account a process of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim

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

Spin-phonon coupling is the main drive of spin relaxation and decoherence in solid-state semiconductors at finite temperature. Controlling this interaction is a central problem for many disciplines, ranging from magnetic resonance to…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-23 Alessandro Lunghi

We investigate the longitudinal spin relaxation arising due to spin-flip transitions accompanied by phonon emission in quantum dots where the strength of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a random function of the lateral (in-plane)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Ya. Sherman , D. J. Lockwood

We investigate theoretically spin relaxation in heavy hole quantum dots in low external magnetic fields. We demonstrate that two-phonon processes and spin-orbit interaction are experimentally relevant and provide an explanation for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Mircea Trif , Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

Spin relaxation via electron-phonon interaction is an important decoherence mechanism for spin qubits. In this work, we study spin relaxation in hexagonal (2H) germanium, a novel direct-gap semiconductor showing great potential to combine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Baksa Kolok , György Frank , András Pályi

Spin transport experiments in graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, indicate spin relaxation times that are significantly shorter than the theoretical predictions. We investigate experimentally whether these short spin relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Popinciuc , C. Józsa , P. J. Zomer , N. Tombros , A. Veligura , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

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

Spin transitions driven by a periodically varying electric potential in dilute fluorinated graphene quantum dots are investigated. Flakes of monolayer graphene are considered as well as electrostatic electron traps induced in bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 D. P. Żebrowski , F. M. Peeters , B. Szafran

We study electron-acoustic phonon scattering and electron relaxation in quantum rings in the absence and in the presence of external magnetic fields. Electron-phonon interaction is accounted for both the deformation potential and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Piacente , G. Q. Hai

Electron relaxation, induced by acoustic phonons, is studied for coupled quantum rings in the presence of external fields, both electric and magnetic. We address the problem of a single electron in vertically coupled GaAs quantum rings.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Piacente , G. Q. Hai

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

Controlling electron spins in double quantum dots allows individual electrons to be trapped and manipulated for next-generation solid-state qubit devices. In this paper, the study analyzes spin relaxation due to deformation potentials of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Sanjay Prabhakar

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