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Exact Nonadiabatic Holonomic Transformations of Spin-Orbit Qubits

arXiv:1312.7254 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.150402

Abstract

An exact analytical solution is derived for the wavefunction of an electron in a one-dimensional moving quantum dot in a nanowire, in the presence of time-dependent spin-orbit coupling. For cyclic evolutions we show that the spin of the electron is rotated by an angle proportional to the area of a closed loop in the parameter space of the time-dependent quantum dot position and the amplitude of a fictitious classical oscillator driven by the time-dependent spin-orbit coupling. By appropriate choice of parameters, we show that arbitrary spin rotations may be performed on the Bloch sphere. Exact expressions for dynamical and geometrical phases are also derived.

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