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Indirect control of spin precession by electric field via spin-orbit coupling

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Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can mediate the electric-dipole spin resonance (EDSR) within an a.c. electric field. By applying a quantum linear coordinate transformation, we find that the essence of EDSR could be understood as a spin precession under an effective a.c. magnetic field induced by the SOC in the reference frame, which is following exactly the classical trajectory of this spin. Based on this observation, we find an upper limit for the spin-flipping speed in the EDSR-based control of spin. For two-dimensional case, the azimuthal dependence of the effective magnetic field can be used to measure the ratio of the Rashba and Dresselhaus SOC strengths.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics and University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China

    Li-Ping Yang

  2. Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P.R. China

    Li-Ping Yang & Chang-Pu Sun

  3. Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China

    Chang-Pu Sun

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Yang, LP., Sun, CP. Indirect control of spin precession by electric field via spin-orbit coupling. Eur. Phys. J. B 88, 4 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2014-50557-6

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