Conductance Fluctuations and Spin Symmetries in Quantum Dots

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Abstract

Conductance fluctuations in GaAs quantum dots with spin-orbit and Zeeman coupling are investigated experimentally and compared to a random matrix theory formulation that defines a number of regimes of spin symmetry depending on experimental parameters. Accounting for orbital coupling of the in-plane magnetic field, which can break time-reversal symmetry, yields excellent overall agreement between experiment and theory.

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Spin relaxation in semiconductor quantum dots

Yuli V. Nazarov, Alexander Khaetskii (1999)

We have studied the physical processes responsible for the spin -flip in GaAs quantum dots. We have calculated the rates for different mechanisms which are related to spin-orbit coupling and cause a spin-flip during the inelastic relaxation of the electron in the dot both with and without a magnetic field. We have shown that the zero-dimensional character of the problem when electron wave functions are localized in all directions leads to freezing out of the most effective spin-flip mechanisms related to the absence of the inversion centers in the elementary crystal cell and at the heterointerface and, as a result, to unusually low spin-flip rates.