Electron and hole spin dynamics and decoherence in quantum dots

Abstract

In this article we review our work on the dynamics and decoherence of electron and hole spins in single and double quantum dots. The first part, on electron spins, focuses on decoherence induced via the hyperfine interaction while the second part covers decoherence and relaxation of heavy-hole spins due to spin-orbit interaction as well as the manipulation of heavy-hole spin using electric dipole spin resonance.

19 pages, 4 figures, review article to appear in a book on semiconductor quantum bits, edited by O. Benson and F. Henneberger, published by Pan Stanford Publishing