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We study the dynamics of an electron confined in a one-dimensional double quantum dot in the presence of driving external magnetic fields. The orbital motion of the electron is coupled to the spin dynamics by spin orbit interaction of the…

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We investigate heavy-hole spin relaxation and decoherence in quantum dots in perpendicular magnetic fields. We show that at low temperatures the spin decoherence time is two times longer than the spin relaxation time. We find that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis V. Bulaev , Daniel Loss

We investigate the transport properties of narrow quantum wires realized in disordered two-dimensional electron gases in the presence of k-linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (SOI), and an applied in-plane magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-27 Matthias Scheid , Inanc Adagideli , Junsaku Nitta , Klaus Richter

We consider a one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled nanowire quantum dot, driven by external electric and magnetic fields, and theoretically formulate an electric mechanism to interfere its electron orbits. Owing to the existence of spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Jingtao Fan , Yuansen Chen , Gang Chen , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Franco Nori

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 estimate the triplet-singlet relaxation rate due to spin-orbit coupling assisted by phonon emission in weakly-confined quantum dots. Our results for two and four electrons show that the different triplet-singlet relaxation trends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan I. Climente , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Massimo Rontani , Elisa Molinari

Spatiotemporal spin dynamics under spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a (001) GaAs two-dimensional electron gas using magneto-optical Kerr rotation microscopy. Spin polarized electrons are diffused away from the excited position,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Daisuke Iizasa , Asuka Aoki , Takahito Saito , Junsaku Nitta , Gian Salis , Makoto Kohda

The spin relaxation time $T_{1}$ in zinc blende GaN quantum dot is investigated for different magnetic field, well width and quantum dot diameter. The spin relaxation caused by the two most important spin relaxation mechanisms in zinc…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-11 M. Q. Weng , Y. Y. Wang , M. W. Wu

Electron spins in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) can be manipulated by spin-orbit (SO) fields originating from either Rashba or Dresselhaus interactions with independent isotropic characteristics. Together, though, they produce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Henri Saarikoski , Andrés Reynoso , José Pablo Baltanás , Diego Frustaglia , Junsaku Nitta

The magnetization of anisotropic quantum dots in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction has been studied for three interacting electrons in the dot. We observe unique behaviors of magnetization that are direct reflections of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 Siranush Avetisyan , Tapash Chakraborty , Pekka Pietilainen

We show that spin-flip rotation in a semiconductor quantum wire, caused by the Rashba and the Dresselhaus interactions (both of arbitrary strengths), can be suppressed by dint of an in-plane magnetic field. We found a new type of symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 R. G. Nazmitdinov , K. N. Pichugin , M. Valin-Rodriguez

We derive a generalized form of the Electric Dipole Spin Resonance (EDSR) Hamiltonian in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction for single spins in an elliptic quantum dot (QD) subject to an arbitrary (in both direction and magnitude)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Massoud Borhani , Xuedong Hu

We investigate spin relaxation in rippled graphene where curvature induces a Zeeman-like spin-orbit coupling with opposite effective magnetic fields along the graphene plane in ${\bf K}$ and ${\bf K}^\prime$ valleys. The joint effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 P. Zhang , Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

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

A theory of spin manipulation of quasi-two-dimensional (2D) electrons by a time-dependent gate voltage applied to a quantum well is developed. The Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling mechanisms are shown to be rather efficient for…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Rashba , Al. L. Efros

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 study the spin-spin coupling between two single-electron quantum dots due to the Coulomb and spin-orbit interactions, in the absence of tunneling between the dots. We find an anisotropic XY spin-spin interaction that is proportional to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mircea Trif , Vitaly N. Golovach , Daniel Loss

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

The spin splitting of conduction band electrons in inversion-asymmetric InGaAs/InP quantum wells is studied by Shubnikov-de Haas measurements combining the analysis of beating patterns and coincidence measurements in doubly tilted magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 F. Herzog , H. Hardtdegen , Th. Schaepers , D. Grundler , M. A. Wilde

We investigate the effects of an in-plane magnetic field on the weak antilocalization signature of near-surface quantum wells lacking bulk and inversion symmetry. The measured magnetoconductivity exhibits a strong anisotropy with respect to…