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Geometric spin manipulation in semiconductor quantum dots

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-07-15 v1

Abstract

We propose a method to flip the spin completely by an adiabatic transport of quantum dots. We show that it is possible to flip the spin by inducing a geometric phase on the spin state of a quantum dot. We estimate the geometric spin flip time (approximately 2 pico-sec) which turned out to be much shorter than the experimentally reported decoherence time (approx. 100 nano-sec) that would provide an alternative means of fliping the spin before reaching decoherence. It is important that both the Rashba coupling and the Dresselhaus coupling are present for inducing a phase necessary for spin flip. If one of them is absent, the induced phase is trivial and irrelevant for spin-flip.

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@article{arxiv.1407.3771,
  title  = {Geometric spin manipulation in semiconductor quantum dots},
  author = {Sanjay Prabhakar and Roderick Melnik and Akira Inomata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3771},
  year   = {2014}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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