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We present a microscopic theory of spin-orbit coupling in the integer quantum Hall regime. The spin-orbit scattering length is evaluated in the limit of long-range random potential. The spin-flip rate is shown to be determined by rare…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. G. Polyakov

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

Highly accurate numerical results of phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in silicon double quantum dots are presented. The relaxation, enabled by spin-orbit coupling and the nuclei of $^{29}$Si (natural or purified abundance), are…

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

Disorder scattering and spin-orbit coupling are together responsible for the diffusion and relaxation of spin-density in time-reversal invariant systems. We study spin-relaxation and diffusion in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Yasufumi Araki , Guru Khalsa , Allan H. MacDonald

We consider a mechanism of spin decay for an electron spin in a quantum dot due to coupling to a nearby quantum point contact (QPC) with and without an applied bias voltage. The coupling of spin to charge is induced by the spin-orbit…

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

We have investigated the electronic properties of elliptical quantum dots in a perpendicular external magnetic field, and in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Our work indicates that the Fock-Darwin spectra display strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Siranush Avetisyan , Pekka Pietiläinen , Tapash Chakraborty

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

We study relaxation of a moving spin qubit caused by phonon noise. As we vary the speed of the qubit, we observe several interesting features in spin relaxation and the associated phonon emission, induced by Doppler effect. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 Xinyu Zhao , Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

We demonstrate electrical control of the spin relaxation time T_1 between Zeeman split spin states of a single electron in a lateral quantum dot. We find that relaxation is mediated by the spin-orbit interaction, and by manipulating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 S. Amasha , K. MacLean , Iuliana P. Radu , D. M. Zumbuhl , M. A. Kastner , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We study the effect of the coupling between the hole $s$ shell of one quantum dot and the $p$ shell in the other dot forming a quantum dot molecule on the spin relaxation between the sublevels of the hole $s$ state. Using an effective model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Karol Kawa , Paweł Machnikowski

Far infrared radiation absorption of a quantum dot with few electrons in an orthogonal magnetic field could monitor the crossover to the fully spin polarized state. A Rashba spin-orbit coupling can tune the energy and the spin density of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Lucignano , B. Jouault , A. Tagliacozzo , B. L. Altshuler

Controlling electron spins in double quantum dots allows individual electrons to be trapped and manipulated for next-generation solid-state qubit devices. In this paper, the study analyzes spin relaxation due to deformation potentials of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Sanjay Prabhakar

We have calculated spin relaxation rates in parabolic quantum dots due to the phonon modulation of the spin-orbit interaction in presence of an external magnetic field. Both, deformation potential and piezoelectric electron-phonon coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Alcalde , Qu Fanyao , G. E. Marques

The spin dynamics and spin relaxation of itinerant electrons in quantum wires with spin-orbit coupling is reviewed. We give an introduction to spin dynamics, and review spin-orbit coupling mechanisms in semiconductors. The spin diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Paul Wenk , Stefan Kettemann

We investigate the spin relaxation induced by acoustic phonons in the presence of spin-orbit interactions in single electron Si/SiGe lateral coupled quantum dots. The relaxation rates are computed numerically in single and double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

Spin-orbit coupling in solids is typically a single-body effect arising from relativity. In this work, we propose a spontaneous generation of spin-orbit coupling from symmetry breaking. A spin-dependent electron-phonon coupling model is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-23 Xiangyu Zhang , Da Wang , Congjun Wu

We study the effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on two-dimensional Rydberg exciton systems. Using analytical and numerical arguments we demonstrate that this coupling considerably modifies the wave functions and leads to a level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 V. A. Stephanovich , E. Ya. Sherman , N. T. Zinner , O. V. Marchukov

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

Influence of resonant oscillating electromagnetic field on a single electron in coupled lateral quantum dots in the presence of phonon-induced relaxation and decoherence is investigated. Using symmetry arguments it is shown that spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

Because of the peculiar coupling of spatial and spin degrees of freedom effected by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, lateral confinement of a two dimensional electronic system leads to a finite transverse spin polarization near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani