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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 random magnetic field produced by nuclear spins has long been viewed as the dominating source of decoherence in the quantum-dot based spins. Here we obtain in both exact and analytical manner the dynamics of spin qubits coupled to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-10 Zhedong Zhang , Hongchen Fu , Jin Wang

We consider a SQUID tunneling between 2 nearly degenerate flux states. Decoherence caused by paramagnetic and nuclear spins in the low-$T$ limit is shown to be much stronger than that from electronic excitations. The decoherence time…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolay Prokof'ev , Philip Stamp

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

Decoherence of electron spins in nanoscale systems is important to quantum technologies such as quantum information processing and magnetometry. It is also an ideal model problem for studying the crossover between quantum and classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Wen Yang , Wen-Long Ma , Ren-Bao Liu

We systematically investigate the universal spin decoherence dynamics of a localized electron in an arbitrary nuclear spin bath, which can be even far away from equilibrium due to the weak nuclear-lattice interaction. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-27 Yi-Ya Tian , Pochung Chen , Daw-Wei Wang

In this review, we discuss the decoherence and thermalization of a quantum spin system interacting with a spin bath environment, by numerically solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation of the whole system. The effects of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-27 Shengjun Yuan

We study the decoherence induced by the environment over a composite quantum system, comprising two coupled subsystems A and B, which may be a harmonic or an upside-down oscillators. We analyze the case in which the B-subsystem is in direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

The well-known increase of the decoherence rate with the temperature, for a quantum system coupled to a linear thermal bath, holds no longer for a different bath dynamics. This is shown by means of a simple classical non-linear bath, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 A. Montina , F. T. Arecchi

We consider the decoherence of a single localized electron spin due to its coupling to the lattice nuclear spin bath in a semiconductor quantum computer architecture. In the presence of an external magnetic field and at low temperatures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. M. Witzel , S. Das Sarma

We report on the immersion of a spin-qubit encoded in a single trapped ion into a spin-polarized neutral atom environment, which possesses both continuous (motional) and discrete (spin) degrees of freedom. The environment offers the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 L. Ratschbacher , C. Sias , L. Carcagni , J. M. Silver , C. Zipkes , M. Köhl

We study decoherence induced on a two-level system coupled to a one-dimensional quantum spin chain. We consider the cases where the dynamics of the chain is determined by the Ising, XY, or Heisenberg exchange Hamiltonian. This model of…

We study numerically the damping of quantum oscillations and the increase of entropy with time in model spin systems decohered by a spin bath. In some experimentally relevant cases, the oscillations of considerable amplitude can persist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Dobrovitski , H. A. De Raedt , M. I. Katsnelson , B. N. Harmon

In this paper, we investigate the decoherence of qubit due to its coupling to a Hermitian or a non-Hermitian bath within the pure dephasing spin-boson model. First, using this model, we analytically establish the previously anticipated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Yue-Hong Wu , Ning-Hua Tong

We consider here the problem of a "central spin", with spin quantum number $S \gg 1$, interacting with a set of microscopic spins. Interactions between the microscopic spins are ignored. This model describes magnetic grains or magnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 N. V. Prokof'ev , P. C. E. Stamp

We theoretically study the decoherence and the dynamical decoupling control of nitrogen-vacancy center electron spins in high-purity diamond, where the hyperfine interaction with $^{13}$C nuclear spins is the dominating decoherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Nan Zhao , Sai-Wah Ho , Ren-Bao Liu

Spin decoherence poses a significant challenge in molecular magnets, with the nuclear spin bath serving as a prominent source. Intriguingly, spin qubits at the clock transition exhibit remarkable insensitivity to the surrounding nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Xiao Chen , Haechan Park , Silas Hoffman , Shuanglong Liu , Hai-Ping Cheng

We discuss various definitions of decoherence and how it can be measured. We compare and contrast decoherence in quantum systems with an infinite number of eigenstates (such as the free particle and the oscillator) and spin systems. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. F. O'Connell

We investigate the decoherence properties of a central system composed of two spins 1/2 in contact with a spin bath. The dynamical regime of the bath ranges from a fully integrable integrable limit to complete chaoticity. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Relano , J. Dukelsky , R. A. Molina

We investigate decoherence due to pure dephasing of a localized spin qubit interacting with a nuclear spin bath. Although in the limit of a very large magnetic field the only decoherence mechanism is spectral diffusion due to dipolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 L. Cywinski , W. M. Witzel , S. Das Sarma