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Spin decay and quantum parallelism

arXiv:cond-mat/0207195 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.66.245303

Abstract

We study the time evolution of a single spin coupled inhomogeneously to a spin environment. Such a system is realized by a single electron spin bound in a semiconductor nanostructure and interacting with surrounding nuclear spins. We find striking dependencies on the type of the initial state of the nuclear spin system. Simple product states show a profoundly different behavior than randomly correlated states whose time evolution provides an illustrative example of quantum parallelism and entanglement in a decoherence phenomenon.

6 pages, 4 figures included, version to appear in Phys. Rev. B

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