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Excitation of spin waves on a cylindrical semiconductor heterostructure with Rashba spin-orbit interaction

Materials Science 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

Elementary excitations in a paramagnetic semiconductor quantum well confined to a cylindrical surface are theoretically studied on the basis of coupled spin-charge drift-diffusion equations. The electric-field-mediated eigenmodes are optically excited by an oscillating interference pattern, which induces a current in the outer circuit. For a cylinder with a given radius, sharp resonances are predicted to occur in the steady-state current response, which are due to weakly damped spin remagnetization waves.

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@article{arxiv.0811.3070,
  title  = {Excitation of spin waves on a cylindrical semiconductor heterostructure with Rashba spin-orbit interaction},
  author = {P. Kleinert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.3070},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 1figure