Nonmonotonic spin relaxation and decoherence in graphene quantum dots with spin-orbit interactions

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关键词: COMPUTATION;    QUBITS;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.89.115427

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

We investigate the spin relaxation and decoherence in a single-electron graphene quantum dot with Rashba and intrinsic spin-orbit interactions. We derive an effective spin-phonon Hamiltonian via the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation in order to calculate the spin relaxation time T-1 and decoherence time T-2 within the framework of the Bloch-Redfield theory. In this model, the emergence of a nonmonotonic dependence of T-1 on the external magnetic field is attributed to the Rashba spin-orbit coupling-induced anticrossing of opposite spin states. A rapid decrease of T-1 occurs when the spin and orbital relaxation rates become comparable in the vicinity of the spin-mixing energy-level anticrossing. By contrast, the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction leads to a monotonic magnetic field dependence of the spin relaxation rate which is caused solely by the direct spin-phonon coupling mechanism. Within our model, we demonstrate that the decoherence time T-2 similar or equal to 2T(1) is dominated by relaxation processes for the electron-phonon coupling mechanisms in graphene up to leading order in the spin-orbit interaction. Moreover, we show that the energy anticrossing also leads to a vanishing pure spin dephasing rate for these states for a super-Ohmic bath.

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