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Interaction of the electron spin with local elastic twists due to transverse phonons has been studied. Universal dependence of the spin relaxation rate on the strength and direction of the magnetic field has been obtained in terms of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-05 Carlos Calero , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

We investigate theoretically the electron spin relaxation in single-electron nanowire-based semiconductor double quantum dots induced by confined phonons and find that the electron spin relaxation rate can be efficiently manipulated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-27 M. Wang , Y. Yin , M. W. Wu

Disorder in spin-orbit (SO) coupling is an important feature of real low-dimensional electron structures. We study spin relaxation due to such a disorder as well as resulting abilities of spin manipulation. The spin relaxation reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , V. I. Ivanov , J. Barnas

A global quantitative picture of the phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in GaAs double quantum dots is presented using highly accurate numerical calculations. Wide regimes of interdot coupling, magnetic field magnitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Fabio Baruffa , Jaroslav Fabian

We present a numerical study of spin relaxation in a semiclassical electron ensemble in a large ballistic quantum dot. The dot is defined in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction system with a two-dimensional electron gas, and relaxation occurs due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-21 E. J. Koop , B. J. van Wees , C. H. van der Wal

We estimate the spin relaxation rate due to spin-orbit coupling and acoustic phonon scattering in weakly-confined quantum dots with up to five interacting electrons. The Full Configuration Interaction approach is used to account for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan I. Climente , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Massimo Rontani , Elisa Molinari

We study the spin relaxation in a single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dot due to the spin-orbit coupling. The spin relaxation is assisted by the emission of acoustic phonons via the bond-length change and deformation potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Lin Wang , Guido Burkard

We estimate the triplet-singlet relaxation rate due to spin-orbit coupling assisted by phonon emission in weakly-confined quantum dots. Our results for two and four electrons show that the different triplet-singlet relaxation trends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan I. Climente , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Massimo Rontani , Elisa Molinari

We present a theory for the dissipation of electronic spins trapped in quantum dots due to their coupling to the host lattice acoustic phonon modes. Based on the theory of dissipative two level systems for the spin dynamics, we derive a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Harry Westfahl , Amir O. Caldeira , Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro , Maya Cerro

We discuss the rate of relaxation of the total spin in the two-electron droplet in the vicinity of the magnetic field driven singlet-triplet transition. The total spin relaxation is attributed to spin-orbit and electron-phonon interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Dickmann , P. Hawrylak

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

We have studied theoretically the electron spin relaxation in semiconductor quantum dots via interaction with nuclear spins. The relaxation is shown to be determined by three processes: (i) -- the precession of the electron spin in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. A. Merkulov , Al. L. Efros , M. Rosen

We have studied spin-flip transitions between Zeeman sublevels in GaAs electron quantum dots. Several different mechanisms which originate from spin-orbit coupling are shown to be responsible for such processes. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Alexander V. Khaetskii , Yuli V. Nazarov

We study theoretically the phonon-induced relaxation and decoherence of spin states of two electrons in a lateral double quantum dot in a SiGe/Si/SiGe heterostructure. We consider two types of singlet-triplet spin qubits and calculate their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Viktoriia Kornich , Christoph Kloeffel , Daniel Loss

We use temporally resolved intensity cross-correlation measurements to identify the biexciton-exciton radiative cascades in a negatively charged QD. The polarization sensitive correlation measurements show unambiguously that the excited two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Y. Benny , R. Presman , Y. Kodriano , E. Poem , D. Gershoni , T. A. Truong , P. M. Petroff

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

This work considers the g-tensor anisotropy induced by the flexural thermal vibrations in one-dimensional structures and its role in electron spin relaxation. In particular, the mechanism of spin-lattice relaxation via flexural modes is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. M. Borysenko , Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim

We study the singlet-triplet relaxation due to the spin-orbit coupling assisted by the electron-phonon scattering in two-electron SiGe/Si/SiGe double quantum dots in the presence of an external magnetic field in either Faraday or Voigt…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 L. Wang , M. W. Wu

We investigate the singlet-triplet relaxation process of a two electron silicon quantum dot. In the absence of a perpendicular magnetic field, we find that spin-orbit coupling is not the main source of singlet-triplet relaxation. Relaxation…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Prada , R. H. Blick , R. Joynt

We theoretically study the relaxation of electron orbital states of a double quantum dot system due to two-phonon processes. In particular, we calculate how the relaxation rates depend on the separation distance between the quantum dots,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. N. Stavrou , Xuedong Hu