Spin-flip locking by tunneling and relaxation in a driven double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling

Coupled spin evolution and tunneling together with the relaxation and decoherence effects are studied for the double quantum dot formed in a semiconductor nanowire and driven by the periodic electric field. Such structure represents a model of the spin and charge subsystems interacting via the strong spin-orbit coupling. It is found that at certain regimes the combination of fast relaxation in the coordinate channel with the slower relaxation in the spin channel leads to the promising combination of fast spin manipulation and slow spin relaxation, locking the flipped spin in an excited state in one of the dots for a sufficiently long time. The predicted effect is maintained for a wide range of relaxation times and driving amplitudes both for the coordinate and the spin channels and is also observed in higher subharmonics which require lower driving frequencies.