Electron-spin dephasing via hyperfine interaction in a quantum dot: An equation-of-motion calculation of electron-spin correlation functions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Deng, Changxue ^a   Hu, Xuedong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 57749121425     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.245301     Document Type: Article

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