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The nuclear spin, being much more isolated from the environment than its electronic counterpart, enables quantum experiments with prolonged coherence times and presents a gateway towards uncovering the intricate dynamics within an atom.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Lukas M. Veldman , Evert W. Stolte , Mark P. Canavan , Rik Broekhoven , Philip Willke , Laëtitia Farinacci , Sander Otte

The electron-nuclei (hyperfine) interaction is central to spin qubits in solid state systems. It can be a severe decoherence source but also allows dynamic access to the nuclear spin states. We study a double quantum dot exposed to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Gunnar Petersen , Eric A. Hoffmann , Dieter Schuh , Werner Wegscheider , Geza Giedke , Stefan Ludwig

We study the dynamics of an electron spin in a graphene quantum dot, which is interacting with a bath of less than ten nuclear spins via the anisotropic hyperfine interaction. Due to substantial progress in the fabrication of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 Moritz Fuchs , John Schliemann , Björn Trauzettel

We investigate in detail, using both analytical and numerical tools, the decoherence of electron spins in quantum dots (QDs) coupled to a bath of nuclear spins in magnetic fields or with various initial bath polarizations, focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wenxian Zhang , V. V. Dobrovitski , K. A. Al-Hassanieh , E. Dagotto , B. N. Harmon

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-27 Wenxian Zhang , N. P. Konstantinidis , V. V. Dobrovitski , B. N. Harmon , Lea F. Santos , Lorenza Viola

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

We demonstrate bias control of the hyperfine coupling between a single electron in an InAs quantum dot and the surrounding nuclear spins monitored through the positively charged exciton X+ emission. In applied longitudinal magnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 J. Nilsson , L. Bouet , A. J. Bennett , T. Amand , R. M. Stevenson , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , S. Kunz , X. Marie , A. J. Shields , B. Urbaszek

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

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 time evolution of spin states of two electrons interacting with a nuclear spin bath in a quantum dot system is studied. The hyperfine interaction between the electrons and the nuclear spins is modeled by an isotropic Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao , V. Ravishankar , V. Subrahmanyam

Understanding fully the dynamics of coupled electron-nuclear spin systems, which are important for the development of long-lived qubits based on solid-state systems, remains a challenge. We show that in a singly charged semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-26 Wenxian Zhang , Jian-Liang Hu , Jun Zhuang , J. Q. You , Ren-Bao Liu

We introduce a method for solving the problem of an externally controlled electron spin in a quantum dot interacting with host nuclei via the hyperfine interaction. Our method accounts for generalized (non-unitary) evolution effected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Martin J. A. Schuetz , Eric M. Kessler , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , J. Ignacio Cirac , Geza Giedke

We investigate the influence of an external magnetic field on spin phase relaxation of single electrons in semiconductor quantum dots induced by the hyperfine interaction. The basic decay mechanism is attributed to the dispersion of local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim

We present a quantum mechanical theory of optically induced dynamic nuclear polarization applicable to quantum dots and other interacting spin systems. The exact steady state of the optically driven coupled electron-nuclear system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Thomas Nutz , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

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

We study electron spin decoherence in a two-electron double quantum dot due to the hyperfine interaction, under spin-echo conditions as studied in recent experiments. We develop a semi-classical model for the interaction between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-07 Izhar Neder , Mark S. Rudner , Hendrik Bluhm , Sandra Foletti , Bertrand I. Halperin , Amir Yacoby

We investigate the inelastic spin-flip rate for electrons in a quantum dot due to their contact hyperfine interaction with lattice nuclei. In contrast to other works, we obtain a spin-phonon coupling term from this interaction by taking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Veniamin A. Abalmassov , Florian Marquardt

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

Techniques for coherent control of electron spin-nuclear spin interactions in quantum dots can be directly applied in spintronics and in quantum information processing. In this work we study numerically the interaction of electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Dobrovitski , J. M. Taylor , M. D. Lukin