Thermal electron spin flip in quantum dots
arXiv:1504.07503 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.035310
Abstract
We study a thermally induced spin flip of an electron spin located in a semiconductor quantum dot. This interesting effect arises from an intriguing interplay between the Zeeman coupling to an external magnetic field and the hyperfine interaction with the surrounding nuclear spins. By considering a minimal model, we explain the main mechanism driving this spin flip and analyze its dependence on the strength of the external magnetic field, the number of nuclear spins and the ratio of the electron and nuclear Zeeman energies, respectively. Finally we show, that this minimal model can be applied to experimentally relevant QDs in III-V heterostructures, where we explicitly predict the temperature at which the spin flip occurs.
9 pages, 5 figures; included generalized calculations, which additionally consider the so-called flip-flop terms; three additional appendices; two additional figures; changes in the main text in order to include our new results
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