Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-01-25
Phys. Rev. B 81, 125426 (2010).
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Final version accepted for publication. References added.
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.81.125426
We consider relaxation of an electron spin in a nanotube quantum dot due to its coupling to flexural phonon modes, and identify a new spin-orbit mediated coupling between the nanotube deflection and the electron spin. This mechanism dominates other spin relaxation mechanisms in the limit of small energy transfers. Due to the quadratic dispersion law of long wavelength flexons, $\omega \propto q^2$, the density of states $dq/d\omega \propto \omega^{-1/2}$ diverges as $\omega \to 0$. Furthermore, because here the spin couples directly to the nanotube deflection, there is an additional enhancement by a factor of $1/q$ compared to the deformation potential coupling mechanism. We show that the deflection coupling robustly gives rise to a minimum in the magnetic field dependence of the spin lifetime $T_1$ near an avoided crossing between spin-orbit split levels in both the high and low-temperature limits. This provides a mechanism that supports the identification of the observed $T_1$ minimum with an avoided crossing in the single particle spectrum by Churchill et al.[Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 102}, 166802 (2009)].
Rashba Emmanuel I.
Rudner Mark S.
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