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We investigate spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic (AF) molecular rings at finite temperature in the presence of spin-phonon (s-p) interaction. We derive a general expression for the spin susceptibility in the weak s-p coupling limit and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Leonardo Spanu , Alberto Parola

We consider the relaxation of a spin qubit in a quantum dot propagating as a whole in a one-dimensional semiconductor with hyperfine coupling. We show that this motion leads to qualitatively new features in this process compared to static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 C. Echeverria-Arrondo , E. Ya. Sherman

In the present work, a theoretical study of electron-phonon (electron-ion) coupling rates in semiconductors driven out of equilibrium is performed. Transient change of optical coefficients reflects the band gap shrinkage in covalently…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-22 Nikita Medvedev , Zheng Li , Victor Tkachenko , Beata Ziaja

In this work we present a new formalism to evaluate the nuclear spin dynamics driven by hyperfine interaction with non-equilibrium electron spins. To describe the dynamics up to second order in the hyperfine coupling, it suffices to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-12 J. Danon , Yu. V. Nazarov

Spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ $^{119}$Sn nuclei in a silicon semiconductor could make excellent qubits. Nuclear spins in silicon are known to have long coherence times. Tin is isoelectronic with silicon, so we expect electrons can easily shuttle from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Wayne M. Witzel , Jesse J. Lutz , Dwight R. Luhman

We study spin relaxation in a two-electron quantum dot in the vicinity of the singlet-triplet crossing. The spin relaxation occurs due to a combined effect of the spin-orbit, Zeeman, and electron-phonon interactions. The singlet-triplet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaly N. Golovach , Alexander Khaetskii , Daniel Loss

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

The interplay of charge, spin and lattice degrees of freedom is studied for quasi-one-dimensional electron and spin systems coupled to quantum phonons. Special emphasis is put on the influence of the lattice dynamics on the Peierls…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Holger Fehske , Michael Holicki , Alexander Weiße

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 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

The low-frequency vibrational spectrum of an isolated nanometer-scale solid differs dramatically from that of a bulk crystal, causing the decay of a localized electronic state by phonon emission to be inhibited. We show, however, that an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Ho-Soon Yang , Michael R. Geller , W. M. Dennis

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

Under optical cooling of nuclei, a strongly correlated nuclear-spin polaron state can form in semiconductor nanostructures with localized charge carriers due to the strong hyperfine interaction of the localized electron spin with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Andreas Fischer , Iris Kleinjohann , Frithjof B. Anders , Mikhail M. Glazov

The Zeeman-split spin-states of a single electron confined in a self-assembled quantum dot provide an optically-accessible spin qubit. For III-V materials the nuclear spins of the solid-state host provide an intrinsic noise source,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 R. Stockill , C. Le Gall , C. Matthiesen , L. Huthmacher , E. Clarke , Maxime Hugues , M. Atature

We analyze theoretically the effects of electron-phonon interaction in the dynamics of an electron that can be trapped to a localized state and detrapped to an extended band state of a small quantum dot (QD) using a simple model system. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 R. Carmina Monreal

We use the renormalization group method to examine the effect of phonon mediated interaction on d-wave superconductivity, as driven by spin fluctuations in a quasi-one-dimensional electron system. The influence of a tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-15 Hassan Bakrim , Claude Bourbonnais

The population dynamics of dark and bright excitons in (In,Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots is studied by two-color pump-probe spectroscopy in an external magnetic field. With the field applied in Faraday geometry and at T<20 K, the dark excitons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 H. Kurtze , D. R. Yakovlev , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , M. Bayer

Radio-frequency compressed ultrafast electron diffraction has been used to probe the coherent and incoherent coupling of impulsive electronic excitation at 1.55 eV (800 nm) to optical and acoustic phonon modes directly from the perspective…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Robert P. Chatelain , Vance R. Morrison , Bart L. M. Klarenaar , Bradley J. Siwick

A quantum dot molecule doped with a single electron in the presence of diagonal and off-diagonal carrier-phonon couplings is studied by means of a non-perturbative quantum kinetic theory. The interaction with acoustic phonons by deformation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 A. Grodecka-Grad , J. Förstner

A recent experiment by Shimizu et al. has provided evidence of a superconducting phase in hcp Fe under pressure. To study the pressure-dependence of this superconducting phase we have calculated the phonon frequencies and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 S. K. Bose , O. V. Dolgov , J. Kortus , O. Jepsen , O. K. Andersen