Coherence loss and recovery of an electron spin coupled inhomogeneously to a one-dimensional interacting spin bath: an adaptive t-DMRG study

dc.creatorWang, Zhi-Hui
dc.creatorWang, Bing-Shen
dc.creatorSu, Zhao-Bin
dc.date2008-07-31
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dc.descriptionCoherence evolution and echo effect of an electron spin, which is coupled inhomogeneously to an interacting one-dimensional finite spin bath via hyperfine-type interaction, is studied using the adaptive time dependent density matrix renormalization group (t-DMRG) method. It is found that the interplay of the coupling inhomogeneity and the transverse intra-bath interactions results in two qualitatively different coherence evolutions, namely, a coherence preserving evolution characterized by periodic oscillation and a complete decoherence evolution. Correspondingly, the echo effects induced by an electron spin flip at time $τ$ exhibit stable recoherence pulse sequence for the periodic evolution and a single peak at $\sqrt 2 τ$ for the decoherence evolution, respectively. With the diagonal intra-bath interaction included, the specific feature of the periodic regime is kept, while the $\sqrt 2τ$-type echo effect in the decoherence regime is significantly affected. To render the experimental verifications possible, the Hahn echo envelope as a function of $τ$ is calculated, which eliminates the inhomogeneous broadening effect and serves for the identification of the different status of the dynamic coherence evolution, periodic versus decoherence.
dc.descriptionAccepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0807.5071
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0807.5071
dc.identifierPhysical Review B 78, 054433 (2008)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevB.78.054433
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/169359
dc.subjectMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleCoherence loss and recovery of an electron spin coupled inhomogeneously to a one-dimensional interacting spin bath: an adaptive t-DMRG study
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