46 research outputs found
Partly noiseless encoding of quantum information in quantum dot arrays against phonon-induced pure dephasing
We show that pure dephasing of a quantum dot charge (excitonic) qubit may be
reduced for sufficiently slow gating by collectively encoding quantum
information in an array of quantum dots. We study the role of the size and
structure of the array and of the exciton lifetime for the resulting total
error of a single-qubit operation.Comment: Final version; 10 pages, 8 figure
Phonon-assisted decoherence and tunneling in quantum dot molecules
We study the influence of the phonon environment on the electron dynamics in
a doped quantum dot molecule. A non-perturbative quantum kinetic theory based
on correlation expansion is used in order to describe both diagonal and
off-diagonal electron-phonon couplings representing real and virtual processes
with relevant acoustic phonons. We show that the relaxation is dominated by
phonon-assisted electron tunneling between constituent quantum dots and occurs
on a picosecond time scale. The dependence of the time evolution of the quantum
dot occupation probabilities on the energy mismatch between the quantum dots is
studied in detail.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, conference proceeding NOEKS10, to be published in
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Theory of phonon-mediated relaxation in doped quantum dot molecules
A quantum dot molecule doped with a single electron in the presence of
diagonal and off-diagonal carrier-phonon couplings is studied by means of a
non-perturbative quantum kinetic theory. The interaction with acoustic phonons
by deformation potential and piezoelectric coupling is taken into account. We
show that the phonon-mediated relaxation is fast on a picosecond timescale and
is dominated by the usually neglected off-diagonal coupling to the lattice
degrees of freedom leading to phonon-assisted electron tunneling. We show that
in the parameter regime of current electrical and optical experiments, the
microscopic non-Markovian theory has to be employed.Comment: Final extended version, 5 pages, 4 figure
Phonon-assisted tunneling between singlet states in two-electron quantum dot molecules
We study phonon-assisted electron tunneling in semiconductor quantum dot
molecules. In particular, singlet-singlet relaxation in a two-electron doped
structure is considered. The influence of Coulomb interaction is discussed via
comparison with a single electron system. We find that the relaxation rate
reaches similar values in the two cases but the Coulomb interaction shifts the
maximum rates towards larger separations between the dots. The difference in
electron-phonon interaction between deformation potential and piezoelectric
coupling is investigated. We show that the phonon-induced tunneling between
two-electron singlet states is a fast process, taking place on the time scales
of the order of a few tens of picoseconds.Comment: Final extended version, 8 pages, 9 figure
Interplay and optimization of decoherence mechanisms in the optical control of spin quantum bits implemented on a semiconductor quantum dot
We study the influence of the environment on an optically induced rotation of
a single electron spin in a charged semiconductor quantum dot. We analyze the
decoherence mechanisms resulting from the dynamical lattice response to the
charge evolution induced in a trion-based optical spin control scheme.
Moreover, we study the effect of the finite trion lifetime and of the
imperfections of the unitary evolution such as off-resonant excitations and the
nonadiabaticity of the driving. We calculate the total error of the operation
on a spin-based qubit in an InAs/GaAs quantum dot system and discuss possible
optimization against the different contributions. We indicate the parameters
which allow for coherent control of the spin with a single qubit gate error as
low as .Comment: Final version, 14 pages, 11 figure
Heat pumping with optically driven excitons
We present a theoretical study showing that an optically driven excitonic
two-level system in a solid state environment acts as a heat pump by means of
repeated phonon emission or absorption events. We derive a master equation for
the combined phonon bath and two-level system dynamics and analyze the
direction and rate of energy transfer as a function of the externally
accessible driving parameters. We discover that if the driving laser is detuned
from the exciton transition, cooling the phonon environment becomes possible
Exciton spin-flip rate in quantum dots determined by a modified local density of optical states
The spin-flip rate that couples dark and bright excitons in self-assembled
quantum dots is obtained from time-resolved spontaneous emission measurements
in a modified local density of optical states. Employing this technique, we can
separate effects due to non-radiative recombination and unambiguously record
the spin-flip rate. The dependence of the spin-flip rate on emission energy is
compared in detail to a recent model from the literature, where the spin flip
is due to the combined action of short-range exchange interaction and acoustic
phonons. We furthermore observe a surprising enhancement of the spin-flip rate
close to a semiconductor-air interface, which illustrates the important role of
interfaces for quantum dot based nanophotonic structures. Our work is an
important step towards a full understanding of the complex dynamics of quantum
dots in nanophotonic structures, such as photonic crystals, and dark excitons
are potentially useful for long-lived coherent storage applications.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Theory of Spin Relaxation in Two-Electron Lateral Coupled Si/SiGe Quantum Dots
Highly accurate numerical results of phonon-induced two-electron spin
relaxation in silicon double quantum dots are presented. The relaxation,
enabled by spin-orbit coupling and the nuclei of Si (natural or purified
abundance), are investigated for experimentally relevant parameters, the
interdot coupling, the magnetic field magnitude and orientation, and the
detuning. We calculate relaxation rates for zero and finite temperatures (100
mK), concluding that our findings for zero temperature remain qualitatively
valid also for 100 mK. We confirm the same anisotropic switch of the axis of
prolonged spin lifetime with varying detuning as recently predicted in GaAs.
Conditions for possibly hyperfine-dominated relaxation are much more stringent
in Si than in GaAs. For experimentally relevant regimes, the spin-orbit
coupling, although weak, is the dominant contribution, yielding anisotropic
relaxation rates of at least two order of magnitude lower than in GaAs.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure