• DocumentCode
    937034
  • Title

    Dispersion and damping of acoustic phonons in quantum dots

  • Author

    Stroscio, Michael A. ; Dutta, Mitra ; Rufo, Salvador ; Yang, Jianyong

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    32
  • Lastpage
    36
  • Abstract
    The paper examines a variety of mechanisms that can shift or broaden the frequencies of acoustic phonons in quantum dots. These mechanisms take on added significance in view of recent indications that a number of potential applications of quantum dots-including some approaches to quantum computing-may be limited by decoherence effects caused by acoustic-phonon interactions in quantum-dot systems.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; damping; elasticity; gallium compounds; phonons; semiconductor quantum dots; wide band gap semiconductors; GaN; acoustic phonons damping; acoustic phonons dispersion; acoustic-phonon interactions; decoherence effects; elasticity; quantum dots; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Damping; Frequency; Lattices; Optical resonators; Phonons; Physics; Quantum computing; Quantum dots; US Department of Transportation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-125X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNANO.2003.820816
  • Filename
    1278265