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We investigate theoretically the D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation time by solving the eight-band Kane model and Poisson equation self-consistently. Our results show distinct behavior with the single-band model due to the anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 Jun Li , Kai Chang , F. M. Peeters

We have measured the spin injection efficiency and spin lifetime in Co$_2$FeSi/$n$-GaAs lateral nonlocal spin valves from 20 to 300 K. We observe large ($\sim$40 $\mu$V) spin valve signals at room temperature and injector currents of…

We study the effect of the impurity density on lifetimes and relaxation lengths of electron spins in the presence of a static electric field in a n-type GaAs bulk. The transport of electrons and the spin dynamics are simulated by using a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-19 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo

We study spin relaxation in n-type bulk GaAs, due to the Dyakonov--Perel mechanism, using ensemble Monte Carlo methods. Our results confirm that spin relaxation time increases with the electronic density in the regime of moderate electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 Gionni Marchetti , Matthew Hodgson , James McHugh , Roy Chantrell , Irene D'Amico

We investigate the spin dynamics of high-mobility two-dimensional electrons in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells grown along the $[001]$ and $[110]$ directions by time-resolved Faraday rotation at low temperatures. In measurements on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 M. Griesbeck , M. M. Glazov , T. Korn , E. Ya. Sherman , D. Waller , C. Reichl , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , C. Schüller

We report a large and unexpected suppression of the free electron spin relaxation in lightly-doped n-GaAs bulk crystals. The spin relaxation rate shows weak mobility dependence and saturates at a level 30 times less then that predicted by…

A fully microscopic theory of electron spin relaxation by the D'yakonov-Perel' type spin-orbit coupling is developed for a semiconductor quantum well with a magnetic field applied in the growth direction of the well. We derive the Bloch…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Vadim I. Puller , Lev G. Mourokh , Norman J. M. Horing , Anatoly Yu. Smirnov

We present an analytical study of the D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation time for degenerate electrons in a photo-excited electron-hole liquid in intrinsic semiconductors exhibiting a spin-split band structure. The D'yakonov-Perel' spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-17 Matthew D. Mower , G. Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

We report theoretical and experimental studies of ambipolar spin diffusion in a semiconductor. A circularly polarized laser pulse is used to excite spin-polarized carriers in a GaAs multiple quantum well sample at 80 K. Diffusion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-31 Hui Zhao , Matt Mower , G. Vignale

We investigate electron spin relaxation in $p$-type GaAs quantum wells from a fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach, with all the relevant scatterings, such as the electron-impurity, electron-phonon, electron-electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-20 Y. Zhou , J. H. Jiang , M. W. Wu

Silicon is a leading candidate material for spin-based devices, and two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) formed in silicon heterostructures have been proposed for both spin transport and quantum dot quantum computing applications. The key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles Tahan , Robert Joynt

Pure spin currents are measured in micron-wide channels of GaAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Spins are injected and detected using quantum point contacts, which become spin polarized at high magnetic field. High sensitivity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Frolov , A. Venkatesan , W. Yu , W. Wegscheider , J. A. Folk

Coherent electron spin dynamics in 10-nm-wide InGaAs/InAlAs quantum wells is studied from 10 K to room temperature using time-resolved Kerr rotation. The spin lifetime exceeds 1 ns at 10 K and decreases with temperature. By varying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 T. Henn , L. Czornomaz , G. Salis

Dynamic response of two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction is studied theoretically on the basis of quantum kinetic equation, taking into account elastic scattering of electrons. The spin polarization and spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 O. E. Raichev

We perform a many-body study of the spin dephasing due to the D'yakonov-Perel' effect in n-typed GaAs (100) quantum wells for high temperatures ($\geq 120$ K) under moderate magnetic fields in the Voigt configuration by constructing and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

We study the spin dynamics in the presence of impurity and electron-electron (e-e) scattering in a III-V semiconductor quantum well with arbitrary spin-orbit coupling (SOC) strength and symmetry at finite temperature. We derive the coupled…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-11 Xin Liu , Jairo Sinova

We apply the D'yakonov-Perel' (DP) formalism to [111]-grown zincblende quantum wells (QWs) to compute the spin lifetimes of electrons in the two-dimensional electron gas. We account for both bulk and structural inversion asymmetry (Rashba)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Cartoixa , D. Z. -Y. Ting , Y. -C. Chang

An experimental technique for the indirect manipulation and detection of electron spins entangled in two-dimensional magnetoexcitons has been developed. The kinetics of the spin relaxation has been investigated. Photoexcited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 L. V. Kulik , A. V. Gorbunov , A. S. Zhuravlev , V. B. Timofeev , S. Dickmann , I. V. Kukushkin

Low-temperature electron spin relaxation is studied by the optical orientation method in bulk n-GaAs with donor concentrations from 10^14 cm^{-3} to 5x10^17 cm^{-3}. A peculiarity related to the metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) is…

We study high-field spin transport of electrons in a quasi one-dimensional channel of a $GaAs$ gate controlled spin interferometer (SPINFET) using a semiclassical formalism (spin density matrix evolution coupled with Boltzmann transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 S. Pramanik , S. bandyopadhyay , M. Cahay