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We study theoretically the spin relaxation rate in quasi-one-dimensional coupled double semiconductor quantum dots. We consider InSb and GaAs-based systems in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, which causes mixing of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. L. Romano , P. I. Tamborenea , S. E. Ulloa

We study the impacts of the magnetic field direction on the spin-manipulation and the spin-relaxation in a one-dimensional quantum dot with strong spin-orbit coupling. The energy spectrum and the corresponding eigenfunctions in the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Zhi-Hai Liu , Rui Li

Using an exact diagonalization approach we show that one- and two-electron InAs quantum dots exhibit avoided crossing in the energy spectra that are induced by the spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane external magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , B. Partoens , W. Pasek

The dependence of spin relaxation on the direction of the quantum wire under Rashba and Dresselhaus (linear and cubic) spin orbit coupling is studied. Comprising the dimensional reduction of the wire in the diffusive regime, the lowest spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-03-13 Paul Wenk , Stefan Kettemann

Phonon-induced spin relaxation in coupled lateral quantum dots in the presence of spin-orbit coupling is calculated. The calculation for single dots is consistent with experiment. Spin relaxation in double dots at useful interdot couplings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

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

g-factor tuning of electrons in quantum dots is studied as function of in-plane and perpendicular magnetic fields for different confinements. Rashba and Dresselhaus effects are considered, and comparison is made between wide- and narrow-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 C. F. Destefani , Sergio E. Ulloa

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

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 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

We present calculations of the frequency-dependent spin susceptibility tensor of a two-dimensional electron gas with competing Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. It is shown that the interplay between both types of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Catalina López-Bastidas , Jesús A. Maytorena , Francisco Mireles

We study the effect of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction on the electronic states and spin relaxation rates of cylindrical quantum dots defined on quantum wires having wurtzite lattice structure. The linear and cubic contributions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Guido A. Intronati , Pablo I. Tamborenea , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

Spin-orbit mediated phonon relaxation in a two-dimensional quantum dot is investigated using different confining potentials. Elliptical harmonic oscillator and cylindrical well results are compared to each other in the case of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 C. J. Wesslén , E Lindroth

We have studied direct and Raman processes of the decay of electron spin states in a quantum dot via radiation of phonons corresponding to elastic twists. Universal dependence of the spin relaxation rate on the strength and direction of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Calero , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

We have studied the spin dynamics of a dense two-dimensional electron gas confined in a GaAs/AlGaAs triple quantum well by using time-resolved Kerr rotation and resonant spin amplification. Strong anisotropy of the spin relaxation time up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 S. Ullah , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

We use numerical simulations to investigate the spin Hall effect in quantum wires in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We find that the intrinsic spin Hall effect is highly anisotropic with respect to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 A. W. Cummings , R. Akis , D. K. Ferry

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

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

In lateral quantum dots, the combined effect of both Dresselhaus and Bychkov-Rashba spin orbit coupling is equivalent to an effective magnetic field B_so which has the opposite sign for s_z=1/2 spin electrons. When the external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Konemann , R. J. Haug , D. K. Maude , V. I. Fal'ko , B. L. Altshuler

The temperature-dependent electron spin relaxation of positively charged excitons in a single InAs quantum dot (QD) was measured by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy at zero applied magnetic fields. The experimental results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 X. M. Dou , B. Q. Sun , D. S. Jiang , H. Q. Ni , Z. C. Niu