Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2012-01-26
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
7 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
In this paper, a detailed analysis of anisotropic effects on the phonon induced spin relaxation rate in III-V semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) is carried out. We show that the accidental degeneracy due to level crossing between the first and second excited states of opposite electron spin states in both isotropic and anisotropic QDs can be manipulated with the application of externally applied gate potentials. In particular, anisotropic gate potentials enhance the phonon mediated spin-flip rate and reduce the cusp-like structure to lower magnetic fields, in addition to the lower QDs radii in III-V semiconductor QDs. In InAs QDs, only the Rashba spin-orbit coupling contributes to the phonon induced spin relaxation rate. However, for GaAs QDs, the Rashba spin-orbit coupling has a contribution near the accidental degeneracy point and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling has a contribution below and above the accidental degeneracy point in the manipulation of phonon induced spin relaxation rates in QDs.
Bonilla Luis L.
Ghose Shohini
Melnik Roderick
Prabhakar Sanjay
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