Locking electron spins into magnetic resonance by electron-nuclear feedback

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 764-768

  Vink, Ivo T ^a   Nowack, Katja C ^a   Koppens, Frank H L ^a   Danon, Jeroen ^a   Nazarov, Yuli V ^a   Vandersypen, Lieven M K ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSPINNING; FEEDBACK; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

EXCITATION FREQUENCY; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS; III-V QUANTUM DOTS; MICROWAVE MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 70350134509     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1366     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Hanson, R., Kouwenhoven, L. P., Petta, J. R., Tarucha, S. & Vandersypen, L. M. K. Spins in few-electron quantum dots. Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 1217-1265 (2007).
2. Khaetskii, A. V., Loss, D. & Glazman, L. Electron spin decoherence in quantum dots due to interaction with nuclei. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 186802 (2002).
3. Merkulov, I. A., Efros, Al. L. & Rosen, M. Electron spin relaxation by nuclei in semiconductor quantum dots. Phys. Rev. B 65, 205309 (2002).
4. Petta, J. R. et al. Coherent manipulation of coupled electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots. Science 309, 2180-2184 (2005).
5. Koppens, F. H. L., Nowack, K. C. & Vandersypen, L. M. K. Spin echo of a single electron spin in a quantum dot. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236802 (2008).
6. Greilich, A. et al. Mode locking of electron spin coherences in singly charged quantum dots. Science 313, 341-345 (2006). (Pubitemid 44480956)
7. Koppens, F. H. L. et al. Driven coherent oscillations of a single electron spin in a quantum dot. Nature 442, 766-771 (2006).
8. Burkard, G., Loss, D. & DiVincenzo, D. P. Coupled quantum dots as quantum gates. Phys. Rev. B 59, 2070-2078 (1999).
9. Klauser, D., Coish, W. A. & Loss, D. Nuclear spin state narrowing via gate-controlled Rabi oscillations in a double quantum dot. Phys. Rev. B 73, 205302 (2006).
10. Giedke, G., Taylor, J. M., D'Alessandro, D., Lukin, M. D. & Imamoglu, A. Quantum measurement of a mesoscopic spin ensemble. Phys. Rev. A 74, 032316 (2006).
11. Stepanenko, D., Burkard, G., Giedke, G. & Imamoglu, A. Enhancement of electron spin coherence byoptical preparation of nuclear spins. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136401 (2006).
12. Coish, W. A. & Loss, D. Hyperfine interaction in a quantum dot: Non-Markovian electron spin dynamics. Phys. Rev. B 70, 195340 (2004).
13. Witzel, W. M. & Das Sarma, S. Quantum theoryfor electron spin decoherence induced by nuclear spin dynamics in semiconductor quantum computer architectures: Spectral diffusion of localized electron spins in the nuclear solid-state environment. Phys. Rev. B 74, 035322 (2006).
14. Greilich, A. et al. Collective single mode precession of electron spins in a quantum dot ensemble. Phys. Rev. B 79, 201305(R) (2009).
15. Reilly, D. J. et al. Suppressing spin qubit dephasing bynuclear state preparation. Science 321, 817-821 (2008).
16. Ono, K. & Tarucha, S. Nuclear-spin-induced oscillatory current in spin-blockaded quantum dots. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 256803 (2004).
17. Koppens, F. H. L. et al. Control and detection of singlet-triplet mixing in a random nuclear field. Science 309, 1346-1350 (2005).
18. Reilly, D. J. et al. Measurement oftemporal correlations of the Overhauser field in a double quantum dot. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236803 (2008).
19. Foletti, S. et al. Dynamic nuclear polarization using a single pair of electrons. Preprint at 〈http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3613〉 (2008).
20. Baugh, J., Kitamura, Y., Ono, K. & Tarucha, S. Large nuclear Overhauser fields detected in vertically coupled double quantum dots. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 096804 (2007).
21. Tartakovskii, A. I. et al. Nuclear spin switch in semiconductor quantum dots. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026806 (2007).
22. Braun, P.-F. et al. Bistabilityof the nuclear polarization created through optical pumping in In1-xGax As quantum dots. Phys. Rev. B 74, 245306 (2006).
23. Maletinsky, P., Lai, C. W., Badolato, A. & Imamoglu, A. Nonlinear dynamics of quantum dot nuclear spins. Phys. Rev. B 75, 035409 (2007).
24. Ono, K., Austing, D. G., Tokura, Y. & Tarucha, S. Current rectification by Pauli exclusion in a weaklycoupled double quantum dot system. Science 297, 1313-1317 (2002).
25. Koppens, F. H. L. et al. Detection ofsingle electron spin resonance in a double quantum dot. J. Appl. Phys. 101, 081706 (2007).
26. Danon, J. et al. Multiple nuclear polarization states in a double quantum dot. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 046601 (2009).
27. Danon, J. & Nazarov, Yu. V. Nuclear tuning and detuning of the electron spin resonance in a quantum dot: Theoretical consideration. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 056603 (2008).
28. Rudner, M. S. & Levitov, L. S. Electrically driven reverse Overhauser pumping of nuclear spins in quantum dots. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 246602 (2007).
29. Laird, E. A. et al. Hyperfine-mediated gate-driven electron spin resonance. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 246601 (2007).