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Gated combo nanodevice for sequential operations on single electron spin

An idea for a nanodevice in which an arbitrary sequence of three basic quantum single qubit gates - negation, Hadamard and phase shift - can be performed on a single electron spin. The spin state is manipulated using the spin-orbit coupling and the electron trajectory is controlled by the electron wave function self-focusing mechanism due to the electron interaction with the charge induced on metal gates. We present results of simulations based on iterative solution of the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation in which the subsequent operations on the electron spin can be followed and controlled. Description of the moving electron wave packet requires evaluation of the electric field within the entire nanodevice in each time step.

Few-electron artificial molecules formed by laterally coupled quantum rings

We study the artificial molecular states formed in laterally coupled double semiconductor nanorings by systems containing one, two and three electrons. An interplay of the interring tunneling and the electron-electron interaction is described and its consequences for the magnetization and charging properties of the system are determined. It is shown that both the magnetic dipole moment generated by the double ring structure and the chemical potential of the system as function of the external magnetic field strongly depend on the number of electrons and the interring barrier thickness. Both the magnetization and chemical potentials exhibit cusps at the magnetic fields inducing ground-state parity and / or spin transformations. The symmetry transformations are discussed for various tunnel coupling strengths: from rings coupled only ele...

Pinning of electron densities in quantum rings by defects: symmetry constraints and distribution of persistent currents

Comment: PRB, in press

Spin rotations induced by electron running on closed trajectories in gated semiconductor nanodevices

Comment: submitted

Re-entrant pinning of Wigner molecules in a magnetic field due to a Coulomb impurity

Pinning of magnetic-field induced Wigner molecules (WMs) confined in parabolic two-dimensional quantum dots by a charged defect is studied by an exact diagonalization approach. We found a re-entrant pinning of the WMs as function of the magnetic field, a magnetic field induced re-orientation of the WMs and a qualitatively different pinning behaviour in the presence of a positive and negative Coulomb impurity.

Electron transfer through a multiterminal quantum ring: magnetic forces and elastic scattering effects

Comment: submitted to PRB

Coupling of bonding and antibonding electron orbitals in double quantum dots by spin-orbit interaction

We perform a systematic exact diagonalization study of spin-orbit coupling effects for stationary few-electron states confined in quasi two-dimensional double quantum dots. We describe the spin-orbit-interaction induced coupling between bonding and antibonding orbitals and its consequences for magneto-optical absorption spectrum. The spin-orbit coupling for odd electron numbers (one, three) %only weakly perturbs the ground-state wave functions. %Nevertheless, %the spin-orbit interaction opens avoided crossings between low energy excited levels of opposite spin orientation and opposite spatial parity. For two-electrons the spin-orbit coupling allows for low-energy optical transitions that are otherwise forbidden by spin and parity selection rules. We demonstrate that the energies of optical transitions can be significantly increased b...

Magnetic forces and stationary electron flow in three-terminal semiconductor quantum ring

We study stationary electron flow through a three-terminal quantum ring and describe effects due to deflection of electron trajectories by classical magnetic forces. We demonstrate that generally at high magnetic field ($B$) the current is guided by magnetic forces to follow a classical path which for $B>0$ leads via the left arm of the ring to the left output terminal. The transport to the left output terminal is blocked for narrow windows of magnetic field for which the interference within the ring leads to formation of wave functions that are only weakly coupled to the output channel wave functions. These interference conditions are accompanied by injection of the current to the right arm of the ring and by appearance of sharp peaks of the transfer probability to the right output terminal. We find that these peaks at high magnetic...

Time dependent configuration interaction simulations of spin swap in spin orbit coupled double quantum dots

We perform time-dependent simulations of spin exchange for an electron pair in laterally coupled quantum dots. The calculation is based on configuration interaction scheme accounting for spin-orbit (SO) coupling and electron-electron interaction in a numerically exact way. Noninteracting electrons exchange orientations of their spins in a manner that can be understood by interdot tunneling associated with spin precession in an effective SO magnetic field that results in anisotropy of the spin swap. The Coulomb interaction blocks the electron transfer between the dots but the spin transfer and spin precession due to SO coupling is still observed. The electron-electron interaction additionally induces an appearance of spin components in the direction of the effective SO magnetic field which are opposite in both dots. Simulations indica...

Singlet-triplet avoided crossings and effective $g$ factor versus spatial orientation of spin-orbit-coupled quantum dots

We study avoided crossings opened by spin-orbit interaction in the energy spectra of one- and two-electron anisotropic quantum dots in perpendicular magnetic field. We find that for simultaneously present Rashba and Dresselhaus interactions the width of avoided crossings and the effective $g$ factor depend on the dot orientation within (001) crystal plane. The extreme values of these quantities are obtained for [110] and [1$\bar{1}$0] orientations of the dot. The width of singlet-triplet avoided crossing changes between these two orientations by as much as two orders of magnitude. The discussed modulation results from orientation-dependent strength of the Zeeman interaction which tends to polarize the spins in the direction of the external magnetic field and thus remove the spin-orbit coupling effects.