Phonon-induced decay of the electron spin in quantum dots

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2003-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310655v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016601 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.016601

We study spin relaxation and decoherence in a GaAs quantum dot due to spin-orbit interaction. We derive an effective Hamiltonian which couples the electron spin to phonons or any other fluctuation of the dot potential. We show that the spin decoherence time $T_2$ is as large as the spin relaxation time $T_1$, under realistic conditions. For the Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit couplings, we find that, in leading order, the effective magnetic field can have only fluctuations transverse to the applied magnetic field. As a result, $T_2=2T_1$ for arbitrarily large Zeeman splittings, in contrast to the naively expected case $T_2\ll T_1$. We show that the spin decay is drastically suppressed for certain magnetic field directions and values of the Rashba coupling constant. Finally, for the spin coupling to acoustic phonons, we show that $T_2=2T_1$ for all spin-orbit mechanisms in leading order in the electron-phonon interaction.

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