Electric Field Tunability of Nuclear and Electronic Spin Dynamics due to the Hyperfine Interaction in Semiconductor Nanostructures
- 10 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 90 (23), 237601
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.237601
Abstract
We present formulas for the nuclear and electronic spin relaxation times due to the hyperfine interaction for nanostructed systems and show that the times depend on the square of the local density of electronic states at the nuclear position. A drastic sensitivity (orders of magnitude) of the electronic and nuclear spin coherence times to small electric fields is predicted for both uniformly distributed nuclear spins and -doped layers of specific nuclei. This sensitivity is robust to nuclear spin diffusion.
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