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We systematically investigate the universal spin decoherence dynamics of a localized electron in an arbitrary nuclear spin bath, which can be even far away from equilibrium due to the weak nuclear-lattice interaction. We show that the…

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We theoretically study the nuclear spin dynamics driven by electron transport and hyperfine interaction in an electrically-defined double quantum dot (DQD) in the Pauli-blockade regime. We derive a master-equation-based framework and show…

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We suggest a new spin orientation mechanism for localized electrons: $dynamic~electron~spin~polarization~provided~by~nuclear~spin~fluctuations$. The angular momentum for the electrons is gained from the nuclear spin system via the hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. S. Smirnov , T. S. Shamirzaev , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

We present an experimental study of the dynamics underlying the buildup and decay of dynamical nuclear spin polarization in a single semiconductor quantum dot. Our experiment shows that the nuclei can be polarized on a time scale of a few…

Optics · Physics 2007-08-02 P. Maletinsky , A. Badolato , A. Imamoglu

The spin interaction between an electron and nuclei was investigated optically in a single self-assembled InAlAs quantum dot (QD). In spin dynamics, the correlation time of the coupled electron-nuclear spin system and the electron spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-29 R. Kaji , H. Sasakura , S. Adachi , S. Muto

The concept of nuclear spin temperature has been a cornerstone of the theory of dynamic nuclear spin polarization by electrons in various semiconductor structures for decades. Still, it is not always applicable to strongly localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 D. S. Smirnov , K. V. Kavokin

We consider a system of two strongly coupled electron spins in zero magnetic field, each of which is interacting with an individual bath of nuclear spins via the hyperfine interaction. Applying the long spin approximation (LSA) introduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 Bjoern Erbe , John Schliemann

A property of dynamical correlation functions for nonequilibrium states is discussed. We consider arbitrary dimensional quantum spin systems with local interaction and translationally invariant states with nonvanishing current over them. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takayuki Miyadera

We study the spin dynamics in charged quantum dots in the situation where the resident electron is coupled to only about 200 nuclear spins and where the electron spin splitting induced by the Overhauser field does not exceed markedly the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. H. Feng , I. A. Akimov , F. Henneberger

We study theoretically spin decoherence and intrinsic spin noise in semiconductor quantum wires caused by an interplay of electron hopping between the localized states and the hyperfine interaction of electron and nuclear spins. At a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 A. V. Shumilin , E. Ya. Sherman , M. M. Glazov

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…

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Electron spin dephasing in a singly charged semiconductor quantum dot can partially be suppressed by periodic laser pulsing. We propose a semi-classical approach describing the decoherence of the electron spin polarization governed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Natalie Jäschke , Andreas Fischer , E. Evers , V. V. Belykh , Alex Greilich , Manfred Bayer , Frithjof B. Anders

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

We investigate hyperfine induced electron spin and entanglement dynamics in a system of two quantum dot spin qubits. We focus on the situation of zero external magnetic field and concentrate on approximation-free theoretical methods. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-02 Bjoern Erbe , John Schliemann

A physically transparent and mathematically simple semiclassical model is employed to examine dynamics in the central-spin problem. The results reproduce a number of previous findings obtained by various quantum approaches and, at the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Tomasz Dietl

We study an observable-based notion of equilibration and its application to realistic systems like spin qubits in quantum dots. On the basis of the so-called distinguishability, we analytically derive general equilibration bounds, which we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-27 Daniel Hetterich , Moritz Fuchs , Björn Trauzettel

Classical nonlinear theories are highly successful in describing far-from-equilibrium dynamics of magnets, encompassing phenomena such as parametric resonance, ultrafast switching, and even chaos. However, at ultrashort length and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Lukas Körber , Pim Coenders , Johan H. Mentink

We have evaluated hyperfine-induced electron spin dynamics for two electrons confined to a double quantum dot. Our quantum solution accounts for decay of a singlet-triplet correlator even in the presence of a fully static nuclear spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Coish , Daniel Loss

The mesoscopic spin system formed by the 10E4-10E6 nuclear spins in a semiconductor quantum dot offers a unique setting for the study of many-body spin physics in the condensed matter. The dynamics of this system and its coupling to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 Bernhard Urbaszek , Xavier Marie , Thierry Amand , Olivier Krebs , Paul Voisin , Patrick Maletinsky , Alexander Hogele , Atac Imamoglu

The coherence time of an electron spin decohered by the nuclear spin environment in a quantum dot can be substantially increased by subjecting the electron to suitable dynamical decoupling sequences. We analyze the performance of high-level…

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