Phonon-assisted decoherence in coupled quantum dots

Abstract

We analyse various phonon-assisted mechanisms which contribute to the decoherence of excitonic qubits in quantum dot systems coupled by the F\"orster-type transfer process. We show the significant loss of coherence accompanied by dissipation due to charge carrier oscillations between qubit states by using a model of one-phonon assisted F\"orster-type transfer process. We obtain explicit expressions for the relaxation and dephasing times for excitonic qubits interacting with acoustic phonons via both deformation potential and piezoelectric coupling. We compare the decoherence times of the GaAs/AlGaAs material system with half times of concurrence decay in a 2$\otimes$2 bipartite mixed excitonic qubit system. We extend calculations to determine the influence of phonon mediated interactions on the non-unitary evolution of Berry phase in quantum dot systems.