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We investigate the spin-orbit induced spin-interference pattern of ballistic electrons travelling along any regular polygon. It is found that the spin-interference depends strongly on the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit constants as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Marc J. van Veenhuizen , Takaaki Koga , Junsaku Nitta

We estimate the spin relaxation rate due to spin-orbit coupling and acoustic phonon scattering in weakly-confined quantum dots with up to five interacting electrons. The Full Configuration Interaction approach is used to account for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan I. Climente , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Massimo Rontani , Elisa Molinari

We make detailed analysis of each possible spin-orbit coupling of zincblende narrow-gap cylindrical quantum dots built in two-dimensional electron gas. These couplings are related to both bulk (Dresselhaus) and structure (Rashba) inversion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. F. Destefani , S. E. Ulloa , G. E. Marques

We study the anisotropic orbital effect in the electric field tunability of the phonon induced spin-flip rate in quantum dots (QDs). Our study shows that anisotropic gate potential enhances the spin-flip rate and reduces the level crossing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick V. N. Melnik , Luis L. Bonilla

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling to a microwave excitation. We generalize the results of [A. Shnirman and I. Martin, Europhys. Lett. 78, 27001…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Alexander Shnirman

We consider stationary spin current in a (110)-oriented GaAs-based symmetric quantum well due to a nonlinear response to an external periodic electric field. The model assumed includes the Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction and the random…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 V. I. Ivanov , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnas

We report that the electron spin relaxation time, T1, in a GaAs quantum dot with a spin-1/2 ground state has a 180 degree periodicity in the orientation of the in-plane magnetic field. This periodicity has been predicted for circular dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-16 P. Scarlino , E. Kawakami , P. Stano , M. Shafiei , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , L. M. K. Vandersypen

We investigate the spin of a multielectron GaAs quantum dot in a sequence of nine charge occupancies, by exchange coupling the multielectron dot to a neighboring two-electron double quantum dot. For all nine occupancies, we make use of a…

We consider a new quantum gate mechanism based on electron spins in coupled semiconductor quantum dots. Such gates provide a general source of spin entanglement and can be used for quantum computers. We determine the exchange coupling J in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Guido Burkard , Daniel Loss , David P. DiVincenzo

We investigate the spin-current linear response conductivity tensor to an electric field in a paramagnetic two dimensonal electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in the weak scattering regime. In the ususal case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. A. Sinitsyn , E. M. Hankiewicz , W. Teizer , Jairo Sinova

We propose an experimental scheme to study spin-orbit coupling effects in a of two-dimensional (2D) Fermi atomic gas cloud by coupling its internal electronic states (pseudospins) to radiation in a delta configuration. The induced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiong-Jun Liu , Mario F. Borunda , Xin Liu , Jairo Sinova

We report detailed transport measurements in a quantum dot in a spin-flip co-tunneling regime, and a quantitative comparison of the data to microscopic theory. The quantum dot is fabricated by lateral gating of a GaAs/AlGaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Tai-Min Liu , Anh T. Ngo , Bryan Hemingway , Steven Herbert , Michael Melloch , Sergio E. Ulloa , Andrei Kogan

The conductance G of a pair of single-channel point contacts in series, one of which is a spin filter, increases from 1/2 to 2/3 x e^2/h with more and more spin-flip scattering. This excess conductance was observed in a quantum dot by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker

We study spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with a pure gauge non-Abelian spin-orbit field, for which systems with balanced Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, and the (110)-axis grown GaAs quantum wells are typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

We study the influence of spin-orbit coupling on the hole states in InAs/GaAs quantum dots grown on [001]- and [111]-oriented substrates belonging to symmetry point groups: C2v, C3v and D2d. We investigate the impact of various spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Krzysztof Gawarecki , Mateusz Krzykowski

The effects of interplay between spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting on weak localisation and universal conductance fluctuations in lateral semiconductor quantum dots are analysed: All possible symmetry classes of corresponding random…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. L. Aleiner , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We develop path-integral Monte Carlo simulations for a parabolic two-dimensional (2D) quantum dot containing $N$ interacting electrons in the presence of Dresselhaus and/or Rashba spin-orbit couplings. Our method solves in a natural way the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Weiss , R. Egger

Most proof-of-principle experiments for spin qubits have been performed using GaAs-based quantum dots because of the excellent control they offer over tunneling barriers and the orbital and spin degrees of freedom. Here, we present the…

We use numerically exact diagonalization to calculate the spin-orbit and phonon-induced triplet-singlet relaxation rate in a two-electron quantum dot exposed to a tilted magnetic field. Our scheme includes a three-dimensional description of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-19 J. P. Hansen , S. A. Sørngård , M. Førre , E. Rasanen

The spin-Hall conductivity of a disordered 2D electron gas has been calculated for an arbitrary spin-orbit interaction. We have found that in the diffusive regime of electron transport, in accordance with previous calculations, the dc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. G. Mal'shukov , K. A. Chao