Dephasing and Hyperfine Interaction in Carbon Nanotubes Double Quantum Dots: The Clean Limit

Details Dephasing and Hyperfine Interaction in Carbon Nanotubes Double Quantum Dots: The Clean Limit Dephasing and Hyperfine Interaction in Carbon Nanotubes Double Quantum Dots: The Clean Limit

2011-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/1107.4710v1

Phys. Rev. B 84, 205449 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

21 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.205449

We consider theoretically ${}^{13}$C-hyperfine interaction induced dephasing in carbon nanotubes double quantum dots with curvature induced spin-orbit coupling. For two electrons initially occupying a single dot, we calculate the average return probability after separation into the two dots, which have random nuclear-spin configurations. We focus on the long time saturation value of the return probability, $P_\infty$. Because of the valley degree of freedom, the analysis is more complex than in, for example, GaAs quantum dots, which have two distinct $P_\infty$ values depending on the magnetic field. Here the prepared state and the measured state is non-unique because two electrons in the same dot are allowed in six different states. Moreover, for one electron in each dot sixteen states exist and therefore are available for being mixed by the hyperfine field. The return probability experiment is found to be strongly dependent on the prepared state, on the external magnetic field---both Zeeman and orbital effects - and on the spin-orbit splitting. The lowest saturation value, being $P_\infty$=1/3, occurs at zero magnetic field for nanotubes with spin-orbit coupling and the initial state being the groundstate, this situation is equivalent to double dots without the valley degree of freedom. In total, we report nine dynamically different situations that give $P_\infty$=1/3, 3/8, 2/5, 1/2 and for valley anti-symmetric prepared states in an axial magnetic field, $P_\infty$=1. When the groundstate is prepared the ratio between the spin-orbit splitting and the Zeeman energy due to a perpendicular magnetic field can tune the effective hyperfine field continuously from being three dimensional to two dimensional giving saturation values from $P_\infty$=1/3 to 3/8.

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