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Published on: October 13, 2017
Theory of spin relaxation in two-electron lateral coupled quantum dots
Martin Raith1, Peter Stano, Fabio Baruffa
1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany.
Abstract:
A global quantitative picture of the phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in GaAs double quantum dots is presented using highly accurate numerics. Wide regimes of interdot coupling, magnetic field magnitude and orientation, and detuning are explored in the presence of a nuclear bath. Most important, the giant magnetic anisotropy of the singlet-triplet relaxation can be controlled by detuning switching the principal anisotropy axes: a protected state becomes unprotected upon detuning and vice versa. It is also established that nuclear spins can dominate spin relaxation for unpolarized triplets even at high magnetic fields, contrary to common belief.
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