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We proposed and demonstrated that the nuclear spins of the host lattice in GaAs double quantum dots can be strongly polarized in either of two opposite directions, parallel or antiparallel to an external magnetic field. The direction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ryo Takahashi , Kimitoshi Kono , Seigo Tarucha , Keiji Ono

The shaping of nuclear spin polarization profiles and the induction of nuclear resonances are demonstrated within a parabolic quantum well using an externally applied gate voltage. Voltage control of the electron and hole wave functions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Poggio , G. M. Steeves , R. C. Myers , Y. Kato , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We have developed a method for electrical polarization of nuclear spins in quantum Hall systems. In a breakdown regime of odd-integer quantum Hall effect (QHE), excitation of electrons to the upper Landau subband with opposite spin polarity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kawamura , H. Takahashi , K. Sugihara , S. Masubuchi , K. Hamaya , T. Machida

We propose a new mechanism for polarizing nuclear spins in quantum dots, based on periodic modulation of the hyperfine coupling by electric driving at the electron spin resonance frequency. Dynamical nuclear polarization results from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 M. S. Rudner , L. S. Levitov

Hyperfine interaction of electron spins with nuclear spins, in coupled double quantum dots is studied. Results of successive electron spin measurements exhibit bunching due to correlations induced via the nuclear spins. Further nuclear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ozgur Cakir , Toshihide Takagahara

Spin polarized states in nuclear matter with an effective nucleon-nucleon interaction are studied for a wide range of isospin asymmetries and densities. Based on a Fermi liquid theory, it is shown that there are a few possible scenarios of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-09-22 A. A. Isayev

Electron transport in a new low-dimensional structure - the nuclear spin polarization induced quantum wire (NSPI QW) is theoretically studied. In the proposed system the local nuclear spin polarization creates the effective hyperfine field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Pershin , S. N. Shevchenko , I. D. Vagner , P. Wyder

Entanglement generation and detection are two of the most sought-after goals in the field of quantum control. Besides offering a means to probe some of the most peculiar and fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, entanglement in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-29 M. S. Rudner , L. M. K. Vandersypen , V. Vuletic , L. S. Levitov

The possibility of a novel type of semiconductor quantum dots obtained by spatially modulating the spin-orbit coupling intensity in III-V heterostructures is discussed. Using the effective mass model we predict confined one-electron states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Valin-Rodriguez , A. Puente , L. Serra

Magnetic noise of atomic nuclear spins is a major problem for solid state spin qubits. Highly-polarized nuclei would not only overcome this obstacle, but also make nuclear spins a useful quantum information resource. However, achieving…

Semiconductor quantum dots provide a spin-coupled system of an electron and nuclei via enhanced hyperfine interaction. We showed that the nuclear spin polarization in single quantum dots can have three stable branches under a longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Sota Yamamoto , Reina Kaji , Hirotaka Sasakura , Satoru Adachi

Polarization transfers from an electron spin to a nuclear spin are essential for various physical tasks, such as dynamic nuclear polarization in nuclear magnetic resonance and quantum state transformations on hybrid electron-nuclear spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Haidong Yuan , Robert Zeier , Nikolas Pomplun , Steffen J. Glaser , Navin Khaneja

We investigate the dynamic nuclear polarization from the hyperfine interaction between nonequilibrium electronic spins and nuclear spins coupled to them in semiconductor nanostructures. We derive the time and position dependence of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ionel Tifrea , Michael E. Flatte

For spin-based quantum computation in semiconductors, dephasing of electron spins by a fluctuating background of nuclear spins is a main obstacle. Here we show that this nuclear background can be precisely controlled in generic quantum dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Sergej Markmann , Christian Reichl , Werner Wegscheider , Gian Salis

We show that detuned optical pulse trains with a modest spectral width can polarize nuclear spins in InAs quantum dots. The pulse bandwidth is large enough to excite a coherent superposition of both electron spin eigenstates in these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. G. Carter , Sophia E. Economou , A. Shabaev , A. S. Bracker

A theoretical study of spin dynamics in non-relativistic particle beams with interacting angular momenta traversing static, spatially varying magnetic fields is presented. The computational framework evaluates sinusoidal magnetic field…

A microscopic theory of spin fluctuations of localized electrons interacting with optically cooled nuclear spin bath has been developed. Since nuclear spin temperature may stay low enough for macroscopically long time, the nuclear spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 D. S. Smirnov

In nuclear-spin-polarization-induced quantum dots the electrons are confined through local nuclear spin polarization. The model electron confinement potential is time-dependent due to the nuclear spin diffusion and relaxation processes. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. F. Samsonov , Yu. V. Pershin

We predict the electromagnetic field driven nucleation of nanoparticles that provide plasmonic oscillations in resonance with the field frequency. The oscillations assume a phase that maximizes the particle polarization and energy gain due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Victor G. Karpov , Marco Nardone , Nicholas I. Grigorchuk

We polarize nuclear spins in a GaAs double quantum dot by controlling two-electron spin states near the anti-crossing of the singlet (S) and m_S=+1 triplet (T+) using pulsed gates. An initialized S state is cyclically brought into resonance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. R. Petta , J. M. Taylor , A. C. Johnson , A. Yacoby , M. D. Lukin , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard