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We investigate phonon-induced spin and charge relaxation mediated by spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions for a single electron confined within a double quantum dot. A simple toy model incorporating both direct decay to the ground state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-04 V. Srinivasa , K. C. Nowack , M. Shafiei , L. M. K. Vandersypen , J. M. Taylor

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 relaxation in the impurity band of a 2D semiconductor with spin-split spectrum in the external magnetic field is considered. Several mechanisms of spin relaxation are shown to be relevant. The first one is attributed to phonon-assisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilya Lyubinskiy

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 use the two fluid model to determine the conditions under which the nuclear spin-lattice lattice relaxation rate, $T_1$, of candidate heavy quantum critical superconductors can exhibit scaling behavior and find that it can occur if and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-03 Yi-feng Yang , David Pines , N. J. Curro

We use recent developments in the framework of time dependent matrix product state method (t-MPS) to compute the NMR relaxation rate $1/T_1$ for spin-1/2 chains under magnetic field and for different Hamiltonians (XXX, XXZ, isotropically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-08 E. Coira , P. Barmettler , T. Giamarchi , C. Kollath

The spin relaxation in a 1D InAs quantum dot with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling under driving THz magnetic fields is investigated by developing the kinetic equation with the help of the Floquet-Markov theory, which is generalized to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Jiang , M. W. Wu

The physics of interacting nuclear spins arranged in a crystalline lattice is typically described using a thermodynamic framework: a variety of experimental studies in bulk solid-state systems have proven the concept of a spin temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 P. Maletinsky , M. Kroner , A. Imamoglu

The effects resulting due to dressing of an exciton with phonons are analysed as the source of unavoidable decoherence of orbital degrees of freedom in quantum dots. The dressing with longitudinal optical phonons results in energetic shift…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Jacak , A. Janutka , J. Krasnyj , P. Machnikowski , A. Radosz

We analyze the equilibrium and non-equilibrium frequency-dependent spin current noise and spin conductance through a quantum dot in the local moment regime. Spin current correlations are shown to behave markedly differently from charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. P. Moca , I. Weymann , G. Zarand

Electron and phonon transient temperatures are analyzed in the case of nondegenerate semiconductors. An analytical solution is obtained for rectangular laser pulse absorption. It is shown that thermal diffusion is the main energy relaxation…

Time-resolved Faraday rotation is used to study both transverse and longitudinal spin relaxation in chemically-synthesized CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) 22-80 Angstroms in diameter. The precession of optically-injected spins in a transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Gupta , D. D. Awschalom , Al. L. Efros , A. V. Rodina

A realistic pseudopotential model is introduced to investigate the phonon-induced spin relaxation of conduction electrons in bulk silicon. We find a surprisingly subtle interference of the Elliott and Yafet processes affecting the spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-05 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu , J. Fabian

Modulation of donor electron wavefunction via electric fields is vital to quantum computing architectures based on donor spins in silicon. For practical and scalable applications, the donor-based qubits must retain sufficiently long…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-28 Daniel K. Park , Sejun Park , Hyejung Jee , Soonchil Lee

The NMR relaxation rate $1/T_{1}$ is studied for one-dimensional multicomponent spin-orbital systems. By combining the bosonization techniques and the exact solution of the SU($n$) model, we evaluate the power-law exponent and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Akira Kawaguchi , Tatsuya Fujii , Norio Kawakami

The mechanisms for spin relaxation in semiconductors are reviewed, and the mechanism prevalent in p-doped semiconductors, namely spin relaxation due to the electron-hole exchange interaction, is presented in some depth. It is shown that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Ohms , K. Hiebbner , H. C. Schneider , M. Aeschlimann

Understanding and controlling spin relaxation in molecular qubits is essential for developing chemically tunable quantum information platforms. We present a fully first-principles framework for computing the spin relaxation tensor in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Roman Dmitriev , Nosheen Younas , Yu Zhang , Andrei Piryatinski , Eric R. Bittner

We suggest an approach to the problem of free electron spin evolution in a semiconductor with arbitrary anisotropy or quantum structure in a magnetic field. The developed approach utilizes quantum kinetic equations for average spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. G. Semenov

In response to recent proton spin relaxation-time measurements on NiCu(pba)(H$_2$O)$_3$$\cdot$2H$_2$O with ${pba}=1,3{-propylenebis(oxamato)}$, which is an excellent one-dimensional ferrimagnetic Heisenberg model system of spin-$(1,{1/2})$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Shoji Yamamoto

We investigate the spin dynamics of excitons interacting with acoustic phonons in quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum disks by employing a multiband model based on the $4\times4$ Luttinger Hamiltonian. We also use the Bir-Pikus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Thilagam , M. A. Lohe