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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 study the anisotropic orbital effect in the electric field tunability of the phonon induced spin-flip rate in quantum dots (QDs). Our study shows that anisotropic gate potential enhances the spin-flip rate and reduces the level crossing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick V. N. Melnik , Luis L. Bonilla

We study the relaxation of a single electron spin in a circular gate-tunbable quantum dot in gapped graphene. Direct coupling of the electron spin to out-of-plane phonons via the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling leads to a relaxation time T_1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 P. R. Struck , Guido Burkard

We study the relaxation of an electron spin qubit in a Si quantum dot due to electrical noise. In particular, we clarify how the presence of conduction-band valleys influences spin relaxation. In single-valley semiconductor quantum dots,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

Inelastic spin relaxation and spin splitting $\epsilon_{\mathrm{s}}$ in lateral quantum dots are studied in the regime of strong in-plane magnetic field. Due to both g-factor energy dependence and spin-orbit coupling $\epsilon_{\mathrm{s}}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir I. Fal'ko , B. L. Altshuler , O. Tsyplyatev

We investigate the spin dynamics of electrons in quantum wells where the Rashba type of spin-orbit coupling is present in the form of random nanosize domains. We study the effect of magnetic field on the spin relaxation in these systems and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

The electron spin dynamics in (111)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells is studied by timeresolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. By applying an external field of 50 kV/cm a two-order of magnitude increase of the spin relaxation time can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Balocchi , Q. H. Duong , P. Renucci , B. Liu , C. Fontaine , T. Amand , D. Lagarde , X. Marie

An alternating electric field, applied to a quantum dot, couples to the electron spin via the spin-orbit interaction. We analyze different types of spin-orbit coupling known in the literature and find two efficient mechanisms of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vitaly N. Golovach , Massoud Borhani , Daniel Loss

We measure simultaneously the in-plane electron g-factor and spin relaxation rate in a series of undoped inversion-asymmetric (001)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells by spin-quantum beat spectroscopy. In combination the two quantities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 P. S. Eldridge , J. Hübner , S. Oertel , R. T. Harley , M. Henini , M. Oestreich

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

An electron spin qubit in a silicon donor atom is a promising candidate for quantum information processing because of its long coherence time. To be sensed with a single-electron transistor, the donor atom is usually located near an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Peihao Huang , Garnett W. Bryant

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 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

Electron states in a inhomogeneous Ge/Si quantum dot array with groups of closely spaced quantum dots were studied by conventional continuous wave ($cw$) ESR and spin-echo methods. We find that the existence of quantum dot groups allows to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 A. F. Zinovieva , N. P. Stepina , A. I. Nikiforov , A. V. Nenashev , A. V. Dvurechenskii , L. V. Kulik , N. A. Sobolev , M. C. Carmo

Electron spin decoherence caused by elastic spin-phonon processes is investigated comprehensively in a zero-dimensional environment. Specifically, a theoretical treatment is developed for the processes associated with the fluctuations in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim

The singlet-triplet relaxation in nanowire-based quantum dots induced by confined phonons is investigated theoretically. Due to the quasi-one-dimensional nature of the confined phonons, the singlet-triplet relaxation rates exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Y. Yin

Long-range quantum communication for spin qubits is an important open problem. Here we study decoherence of an electron spin qubit that is being transported in a moving quantum dot. We focus on spin decoherence due to spin-orbit interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-12 Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

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 symmetric quantum dots (QDs), it is well known that the spin-hot spot (i.e., the cusp-like structure due to the presence of degeneracy near the level or anticrossing point) is present for the pure Rashba case but is absent for the pure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Luis L. Bonilla

We study spin relaxation and decoherence caused by electron-lattice and spin-orbit interaction and predict striking effects induced by magnetic fields $B$. For particular values of $B$, destructive interference occurs resulting in ultralong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-04 Denis V. Bulaev , Bjoern Trauzettel , Daniel Loss