Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-03-10
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
We study the relaxation of a single electron spin in a circular gate-tunbable quantum dot in gapped graphene. Direct coupling of the electron spin to out-of-plane phonons via the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling leads to a relaxation time T_1 which is independent of the B-field at low fields. We also find that Rashba spin-orbit induced admixture of opposite spin states in combination with the emission of in-plane phonons provides various further relaxation channels via deformation potential and bond-length change. In the absence of valley mixing, spin relaxation takes place within each valley separately and thus time-reversal symmetry is effectively broken, thus inhibiting the van Vleck cancellation at B=0 known from GaAs quantum dots. Both the absence of the van Vleck cancellation as well as the out-of-plane phonons lead to a behavior of the spin relaxation rate at low magnetic fields which is markedly different from the known results for GaAs. For low B-fields, we find that the rate is constant in B and then crosses over to ~B^2 or ~B^4 at higher fields.
Burkard Guido
Struck P. R.
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