Regensburg 2007 – scientific programme

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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 23: Nanoelectronics II - Spintronics and Magnetotransport

TT 23.4: Talk

Thursday, March 29, 2007, 10:15–10:30, H19

Electric Dipole Induced Spin Resonance in Quantum Dots — Vitaly Golovach, •Massoud Borhani, and Daniel Loss — Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

An alternating electric field, applied to a ``spin 1/2'' quantum dot, couples to the electron spin via the spin-orbit interaction. We analyze different types of spin-orbit couplings known in the literature and find that an electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR) scheme for spin manipulation can be realized with the up-to-date experimental setups. In particular, for the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, a fully transverse effective magnetic field arises in the presence of a Zeeman splitting in the lowest order of spin-orbit interaction. Spin manipulation and measurement of the spin decoherence time T_2 are straightforward in lateral GaAs quantum dots through the use of EDSR.