Using time-resolved Faraday rotation, the drift-induced spin-orbit Field of a two-dimensional electron gas in an InGaAs quantum well is measured. Including measurements of the electron mobility, the Dresselhaus and Rashba coefficients are determined as a function of temperature between 10 and 80 K. By comparing the relative size of these terms with a measured in-plane anisotropy of the spin dephasing rate, the D'yakonv-Perel' contribution to spin dephasing is estimated. The measured dephasing rate is significantly larger than this, which can only partially be explained by an inhomogeneous g-factor.
@article{arxiv.0809.2848,
title = {Spin-orbit interaction and spin relaxation in a two-dimensional electron gas},
author = {M. Studer and S. Schön and K. Ensslin and G. Salis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.2848},
year = {2009}
}