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Electric dipole spin resonance and spin decoherence for heavy holes in quantum dots. Denis Bulaev and Daniel Loss Department of Physics University of Basel, Switzerland. Outline. Motivation Spin-Orbit Coupling of Holes Spin Relaxation and Decoherence of Heavy Holes in QDs
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Electric dipole spin resonance and spin decoherencefor heavy holes in quantum dots Denis Bulaev and Daniel Loss Department of Physics University of Basel, Switzerland
Outline • Motivation • Spin-Orbit Coupling of Holes • Spin Relaxation and Decoherence of Heavy Holes in QDs • Spin-Manipulation Methods for Heavy Holes • Conclusions
Motivation QD based Quantum Computing Loss & DiVincenzo, PRA 57, 120 (1998)
Motivation Low T1 (up to 170 ms*) QD based Quantum Computing Loss & DiVincenzo, PRA 57, 120 (1998) Koppens et al., Science 309, 1346 (2005) *Amasha et al. cond-mat/0607110
Motivation Rabi oscillations Low T1 (up to 170 ms*) QD based Quantum Computing Loss & DiVincenzo, PRA 57, 120 (1998) Koppens et al., Science 309, 1346 (2005) *Amasha et al. cond-mat/0607110 Pettaet al., Science 309, 2180 (2005) ESR Koppens et al., Nature 442, 766 (2006)
Motivation Rabi oscillations Low T1 (up to 170 ms*) QD based Quantum Computing Loss & DiVincenzo, PRA 57, 120 (1998) Koppens et al., Science 309, 1346 (2005) *Amasha et al. cond-mat/0607110 Pettaet al., Science 309, 2180 (2005) ESR Fast T2 “T*2 ≈ 10 ns, limited by hyperfine interactions” Pettaet al., Science 309, 2180 (2005) Khaetskii, Loss, Glazman, PRB 67, 195329 (2003) Koppens et al., Nature 442, 766 (2006)
Motivation Heavy-Hole Spin as Qubit: weak hyperfine interactions with nuclear spins strong spin-orbit coupling difficult to manipulate the spin
Motivation Heavy-Hole Spin as Qubit: weak hyperfine interactions with nuclear spins strong spin-orbit coupling difficult to manipulate the spin
Spin-Orbit Coupling: 3D vs 2D Bulk Semiconductor E HH ±3/2 LH ±1/2 k [001] Quantum Well E HH D ±3/2 LH ±1/2 kⅡ
Spin-Orbit Coupling: 2D vs 0D [001] Quantum Well E HH D ±3/2 LH ±1/2 kⅡ [001] Flat Quantum Dot E D HH ±3/2 LH ±1/2
Spin-Orbit Coupling: QD E D HH ±3/2 LH ±1/2 Winkler, PRB 62, 4245 (2000) DB & Loss, PRL 95, 076805 (2005) Luttinger, PR 102, 1030 (1956)
Spin-Orbit Coupling: QD No LH-HH Coupling E D HH ±3/2 LH ±1/2 Winkler, PRB 62, 4245 (2000) DB & Loss, PRL 95, 076805 (2005) Luttinger, PR 102, 1030 (1956)
Spin-Orbit Coupling: QD No LH-HH Coupling E D HH ±3/2 LH ±1/2 Winkler, PRB 62, 4245 (2000) No SO Coupling of HHs Luttinger, PR 102, 1030 (1956)
Spin-Orbit Coupling: QD E D HH ±3/2 LH ±1/2
Spin-Orbit Coupling: QD E D HH ±3/2 LH ±1/2 D
Effective Hamiltonian of Heavy Holes Rashba SO coupling R. Winkler, PRB 62, 4245 (2000) Dresselhaus SO coupling DB & D. Loss, PRL 95, 076805 (2006) SO due to BII-field DB & D. Loss, cond-mat/0608410
Energy Level Structure RSO SO(BII) DSO
Spin Evolution. No Damping B0 Sz wzt Sx wzt
Spin Evolution. Damping B0 Sz wzt Sx wzt
Spin Relaxation and Decoherence DB & D. Loss, cond-mat/0608410 DSO SO(BII) RSO h = 5 nm; l = 40 nm;
Spin Relaxation and Decoherence DB & D. Loss, cond-mat/0608410 S.Sasaki et al., PRL 95, 056803 (2005) DSO SO(BII) RSO h = 5 nm; l = 40 nm;
Spin Relaxation: Electrons vs. Holes DB & D. Loss, PRL 95, 076805 (2006) GaAs Quantum Dot (g = 2.5) InAs Quantum Dot (g = -2.2)
Spin Relaxation: Electrons vs. Holes DB & D. Loss, PRL 95, 076805 (2006) GaAs Quantum Dot (g = 2.5) InAs Quantum Dot (g = -2.2) Abstreiter Group, ICPS Conference (July 2006)
Spin Relaxation due LH-HH SOI 5 orders of magnitude longer than that due to RSO, DSO, and SO(BII) Other Theories Woods, Reinecke, & Kotlyar, PRB 69, 125330 (2004) Lü, Cheng, & Wu, PRB 71, 076308 (2005)
Spin Manipulation Heavy-Hole Spin as Qubit: weak hyperfine interactions with nuclear spins strong spin-orbit coupling Long T1, T2 difficult to manipulate the spin weak
ESR. Rabi Oscillations B0 Sz wRt B1 wrf wrf = wz — Spin Resonance wz
ESR. Rabi Oscillations B0 Sz wRt B1 wrf wz Koppens et al., Nature 442, 766 (2006) Engel & Loss, PRL 86, 4648 (2001)
Electric Dipole Spin Resonance No magnetic-dipole transitions!!! DB & D. Loss, cond-mat/0608410
Electric Dipole Spin Resonance No magnetic-dipole transitions!!! DSO SO(BII) RSO RSO SO(BII) Electric-dipole transitions!!! DSO DB & D. Loss, cond-mat/0608410
Electric Dipole Spin Resonance 0 dSO=0 (min) 0 dSO=|e| l wZ / 2w (max) Bloch equations:
Rabi Oscillations B = 0.5 T B =0.8 T B = 0.865 T (Rabi frequency)
Summary Heavy holes in quantum dots: • Spin-orbit effect suppressed for flat QDs • T2 = 2T1 at low temperatures • Spin relaxation time T1 can be milliseconds • Coherent spin manipulation by RF electric fields • Strong control of Rabi oscillations
Quantum Error Corrections scalable QC QEC threshold (Rabi frequency)