Wednesday, April 3, 2013

1304.0169 (G. Giavaras et al.)

Electrical current and coupled electron-nuclear spin dynamics in double
quantum dots
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G. Giavaras, Neill Lambert, Franco Nori
We examine electronic transport in a spin-blockaded double quantum dot. We show that by tuning the strength of the spin-orbit interaction the current flowing through the double dot exhibits a dip at zero magnetic field or a peak at a magnetic field for which the two-electron energy levels anticross. This behaviour is due to the dependence of the singlet-triplet mixing on the field and spin-orbit amplitude. We derive approximate expressions for the current as a function of the amplitudes of the states involved in the transport. We also consider an alternative model that takes into account a finite number of nuclear spins and study the resulting coupled dynamics between electron and nuclear spins. We show that if the spin ensemble is in a thermal state there are regular oscillations in the transient current followed by quasi-chaotic revivals akin to those seen in a thermal Jaynes-Cummings model.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0169

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