Mechanism of half-frequency electric dipole spin resonance in double quantum dots: Effect of nonlinear charge dynamics inside the singlet manifold

TL;DR

This paper investigates the nonlinear charge dynamics within a double quantum dot's singlet manifold, revealing how it causes half-frequency electric dipole spin resonance features through complex harmonic responses.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical model describing the nonlinear charge dynamics and harmonic responses responsible for half-frequency EDSR in double quantum dots.

Findings

Charge dynamics are highly nonlinear near the singlet state transition.

Half-frequency EDSR features are explained as charge satellites of spin-flip transitions.

The theory aligns with observed anomalous EDSR spectra in spin blockade experiments.

Abstract

Electron dynamics in quantum dots manifests itself in spin-flip spectra through electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR). Near a neutrality point separating two different singlet charged states of a double quantum dot, charge dynamics inside a $2\times2$ singlet manifold can be described by a 1/2-pseudospin. In this region, charge dynamics is highly nonlinear and strongly influenced by flopping its soft pseudospin mode. As a result, the responses to external driving include first and second harmonics of the driving frequency and their Raman satellites shifted by the pseudospin frequency. In EDSR spectra of a spin-orbit couplet doublet dot, they manifest themselves as charge satellites of spin-flip transitions. The theory describes gross features of the anomalous half-frequency EDSR in spin blockade spectra [Laird et al., Semicond. Sci. Techol. {\bf 24}, 064004 (2009)].