Electric Dipole Spin Resonance for Heavy Holes in Quantum Dots

Abstract

We propose and analyze a new method for manipulation of a heavy hole spin in a quantum dot. Due to spin-orbit coupling between states with different orbital momenta and opposite spin orientations, an applied rf electric field induces transitions between spin-up and spin-down states. This scheme can be used for detection of heavy-hole spin resonance signals, for the control of the spin dynamics in two-dimensional systems, and for determining important parameters of heavy-holes such as the effective $g$-factor, mass, spin-orbit coupling constants, spin relaxation and decoherence times.