Spin-photon interaction in a nanowire quantum dot with asymmetrical confining potential

TL;DR

This paper investigates how asymmetrical confining potentials in nanowire quantum dots influence spin-photon interactions mediated by spin-orbit coupling, revealing non-monotonic behaviors and the dominance of transverse interactions.

Contribution

It introduces the effect of asymmetrical potentials on both transverse and longitudinal spin-photon interactions in nanowire quantum dots, highlighting the dominance of the transverse component.

Findings

Longitudinal spin-photon interaction is much smaller than transverse.

Transverse interaction length is about 1 nm; frequency is about 0.1 MHz.

Both interactions show non-monotonic dependence on spin-orbit coupling.

Abstract

The electron (hole) spin-photon interaction is studied in an asymmetrical InSb (Ge) nanowire quantum dot. The spin-orbit coupling in the quantum dot mediates not only a transverse spin-photon interaction, but also a longitudinal spin-photon interaction due to the asymmetry of the confining potential. Both the transverse and the longitudinal spin-photon interactions have non-monotonic dependence on the spin-orbit coupling. For realistic spin-orbit coupling in the quantum dot, the longitudinal spin-photon interaction is much (at least one order) smaller than the transverse spin-photon interaction. The order of the transverse spin-photon interaction is about 1 nm in terms of length $|z_{eg}|$, or 0.1 MHz in terms of frequency $eE_{0}|z_{eg}|/h$ for a moderate cavity electric field strength $E_{0}=0.4$ V/m.