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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 8(77)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.77.085302

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Decoherence of coupled electron spins via nuclear spin dynamics in quantum dots

Journal article published in 2007 by W. Yang, R. B. Liu ORCID
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Abstract

In double quantum dots, the exchange interaction between two electron spins renormalizes the excitation energy of pair-flips in the nuclear spin bath, which in turn modifies the non-Markovian bath dynamics. As the energy renormalization varies with the Overhauser field mismatch between the quantum dots, the electron singlet-triplet decoherence resulting from the bath dynamics depends on sampling of nuclear spin states from an ensemble, leading to the transition from exponential decoherence in single-sample dynamics to power-law decay under ensemble averaging. In contrast, the decoherence of a single electron spin in one dot is essentially the same for different choices of the nuclear spin configuration.