English
Related papers

Related papers: Spin Decay in a Quantum Dot Coupled to a Quantum P…

200 papers

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

We study how the conductance of a quantum point contact is affected by spin-orbit interactions, for systems at zero temperature both with and without electron-electron interactions. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling, tuning the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 Olga Goulko , Florian Bauer , Jan Heyder , Jan von Delft

We consider relaxation of an electron spin in a nanotube quantum dot due to its coupling to flexural phonon modes, and identify a new spin-orbit mediated coupling between the nanotube deflection and the electron spin. This mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Mark S. Rudner , Emmanuel I. Rashba

Quantum dot-based spin qubits are resilient towards charge noise and are affected by magnetic noise only. However, environmental interaction leads to decoherence in these qubit systems. The external control parameters are directly related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Tanmay Sarkar , Yash Tiwari , Vishvendra Singh Poonia

Interaction of the electron spin with local elastic twists due to transverse phonons has been studied. Universal dependence of the spin relaxation rate on the strength and direction of the magnetic field has been obtained in terms of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-05 Carlos Calero , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

We study the decoherence of a spin in a quantum dot due to its hyperfine coupling to a randomly fluctuating bath of nuclear spins. The system is modelled by the central spin model with the spin bath initially being at infinite temperature.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Alexandre Faribault , Dirk Schuricht

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

The central spin decoherence problem has been researched for over 50 years in the context of both nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance. Until recently, theoretical models have employed phenomenological stochastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 Wayne M. Witzel , Malcolm S. Carroll , Lukasz Cywinski , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the spin-dependent dynamical response of a quantum ring with a spin-orbit interaction upon the application of linearly polarized, picosecond, asymmetric electromagnetic pulses. The oscillations of the generated dipole moment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

We study the dynamics of a single electron spin in a double quantum dot (DQD) and its readout via a quantum point contact (QPC). We model the system microscopically and derive rate equations for the reduced electron density matrix of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian-Ping Zhang , Shi-Hua Ouyang , Chi-Hang Lam , J. Q. You

We study the spin relaxation in a single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dot due to the spin-orbit coupling. The spin relaxation is assisted by the emission of acoustic phonons via the bond-length change and deformation potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Lin Wang , Guido Burkard

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

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 propose an entanglement mechanism of nuclear spins in quantum dots driven by the electric current. The current accompanied by the spin flip in quantum dots gradually increases components of larger total spin of nuclei. This entangled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikio Eto

We derive an analytical expression for the backaction dephasing rate, which characterizes the disturbance induced by coupling with an environment containing a quantum dot detector (QDD). In this letter, we show that charge noise induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura

We present full quantum mechanical conductance calculations of a quantum point contact (QPC) performed in the framework of the density functional theory (DFT) in the local spin-density approximation (LDA). We show that a spin-degeneracy of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

Small differential conductance oscillations as a function of source-drain bias were observed and systematically studied in an asymmetric quantum point contact (QPC). These oscillations become significantly suppressed in a small in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Hao Zhang , Phillip M. Wu , Albert M. Chang

The spin-orbit coupling influences the total spin of semiconductor quantum dots. We analyze the theoretical prediction for the combined effects of spin-orbit coupling, weak vertical magnetic fields and deformation of the dot. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra , Enrico Lipparini

In terms of the exact quantum master equation solution for open electronic systems, the coherent dynamics of two charge states described by two parallel quantum dots with one fully polarized electron on either dot is investigated in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Jinshuang Jin , Wei-Min Zhang , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Nien-En Wang

Direct phonon spin-lattice relaxation of an electron qubit bound by a donor impurity or quantum dot in SiGe heterostructures is investigated. The aim is to evaluate the importance of decoherence from this mechanism in several important…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Charles Tahan , Mark Friesen , Robert Joynt