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Electric-Field Control of a Hydrogenic Donor's Spin in a Semiconductor
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Electric-Field Control of a Hydrogenic Donor's Spin in a Semiconductor

A. De, Craig E. Pryor and Michael E. Flatte
Physical review letters, Vol.102(1), pp.017603-017603
01/09/2009
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.017603
PMID: 19257242
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.0208View
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Abstract

An ac electric field applied to a single donor-bound electron in a semiconductor modulates the orbital character of its wave function, which affects the electron's spin dynamics via the spin-orbit interaction. Numerical calculations of the spin dynamics of a single hydrogenic donor (Si) embedded in GaAs, using a real-space multiband k center dot p formalism, show the high symmetry of the hydrogenic donor state results in strongly nonlinear dependences of the electronic g tensor on applied fields. A nontrivial consequence is that the most rapid Rabi oscillations occur for electric fields modulated at a subharmonic of the Larmor frequency.
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