Role of Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling on Decoherence and Relaxation of Central Spins in Quantum Dots

Abstract

Strain-induced gradients of local electric fields in semiconductor quantum dots can couple to the quadrupole moments of nuclear spins. We develop a theory describing the influence of this quadrupolar coupling (QC) on the spin correlators of electron and hole "central" spins localized in such dots. We show that when the QC strength is comparable to or larger than the hyperfine coupling strength between nuclei and the central spin, the relaxation rate of the central spin is strongly enhanced and can be exponential. We demonstrate a good agreement with recent experiments on spin relaxation in hole-doped (In,Ga)As self-assembled quantum dots.

6 pages, 7 figures

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