American Physical Society, Physical Review A, 6(89), 2014
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.89.062318
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We study the decay of entanglement of quantum dot electron-spin qubits under hyperfine interaction mediated decoherence. We show that two qubit entanglement of a single entangled initial state may exhibit decay characteristic of the two disentanglement regimes in a single sample, when the external magnetic field is changed. The transition is manifested by the supression of time-dependent entanglement oscillations which are superimposed on the slowly varying entanglement decay related to phase decoherence (which result in oscillatory behaviour of entanglement sudden death time as a function of the magnetic field). This unique behaviour allows us to propose the double quantum dot two-electron spin Bell state as a promising candidate for precise measurements of the magnetic field. ; Comment: Improved version, title modified, Fig 2 corrected, references added, both the scientific content and the conclusions unchanged. Article: 5 pages, 2 figures; supplementary materials, 3 pages, 2 figures