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We realize a device, based on InAs two-dimensional electron gas proximitized by superconducting Al, which allows a single quantum dot level to be used as a spectrometer of the density of states in a nanowire. Applying a magnetic field…

We report electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements on a large-area silicon MOSFET. An ESR signal at g-factor 1.9999(1), and with a linewidth of 0.6 G, is observed and found to arise from two-dimensional (2D) electrons at the Si/SiO2…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-20 S. Shankar , A. M. Tyryshkin , S. Avasthi , S. A. Lyon

We study spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with a pure gauge non-Abelian spin-orbit field, for which systems with balanced Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, and the (110)-axis grown GaAs quantum wells are typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

We study the interaction-enhanced spin gaps in the two-dimensional electron gas confined in GaAs/AlGaAs single heterojunctions subjected to weak magnetic fields. The values are obtained from the chemical potential jumps measured by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Khrapai , A. A. Shashkin , E. L. Shangina , V. Pellegrini , F. Beltram , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba

We have investigated the spin dynamics of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in a GaAs--Al$_{0.3}$Ga$_{0.7}$As single quantum well by time-resolved Faraday rotation (TRFR) in dependence on the initial degree of spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Stich , J. Zhou , T. Korn , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , M. W. Wu , C. Schüller

Sub-picosecond ac spin current pulses are generated optically in GaAs bulk and quantum wells at room temperature and 90K through quantum interference between one-photon and two-photon absorptions driven by two phase-locked ultrafast laser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian A. Ruzicka , Karl Higley , Lalani K. Werake , Hui Zhao

Spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) are of particular interest for functional oxide electronics applications. The redox-created 2DEG residing on the strontium titanate, SrTiO$_3$ (STO), side of a europium monoxide…

The effective g-factor ($g^{*}$) of a dilute interacting two-dimensional electron system is expected to increase with respect to its bare value as the density is lowered, and to eventually diverge as the system makes a transition to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Tutuc , S. Melinte , M. Shayegan

We have calculated the spin-polarization effects of a current in a two dimensional electron gas which is contacted by two ferromagnetic metals. In the purely diffusive regime, the current may indeed be spin-polarized. However, for a typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp , A. T. Filip , B. J. van Wees

We present simulations of an imaging mechanism that reveals the trajectories of electrons in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), as well as simulations of the electron flow in zero and small magnetic fields. The end goal of this work is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katherine E. Aidala , Robert E. Parrott , E. J. Heller , R. M. Westervelt

We demonstrate all optical electron spin initialization, storage and readout in a single self-assembled InGaAs quantum dot. Using a single dot charge storage device we monitor the relaxation of a single electron over long timescales…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 D. Heiss , V. Jovanov , F. Klotz , D. Rudolph , M. Bichler , G. Abstreiter , M. S. Brandt , J. J. Finley

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-06 M. Studer , S. Schön , K. Ensslin , G. Salis

We propose a device acting as a spin valve which is based on a double quantum dot structure with parallel topology. Using the exact analytical solution for the noninteracting case we argue that, at a certain constellation of system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 J. P. Dahlhaus , S. Maier , A. Komnik

Space- and time-resolved measurements of spin drift and diffusion are performed on a GaAs-hosted two-dimensional electron gas. For spins where forward drift is compensated by backward diffusion, we find a precession frequency in absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 P. Altmann , F. G. G. Hernandez , G. J. Ferreira , M. Kohda , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , G. Salis

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

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

For the two-dimensional electron gas, the exact high-density limit of the correlation energy is evaluated here numerically for all values of the spin polarization. The result is spin-resolved into $\uparrow\uparrow$, $\uparrow\downarrow$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Seidl

Semiconductor point contacts can be a useful tool for producing spin-polarized currents in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction. Neither magnetic fields nor magnetic materials are required. By numerical studies, we show that (i) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Eto , Tetsuya Hayashi , Yuji Kurotani

We continuously observe dynamical decoupling in a spin-1 quantum gas using a weak optical measurement of spin precession. Continuous dynamical decoupling aims to dramatically modify the character and energy spectrum of spin states to render…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-24 R. P. Anderson , M. J. Kewming , L. D. Turner

An experiment to probe spin-polarized currents in the quantum Hall regime is suggested that takes advantage of the large Zeeman-splitting in the paramagnetic diluted magnetic semiconductor zinc manganese selenide (Zn$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$Se). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Herrle , Tobias Leeb , Guido Schollerer , Werner Wegscheider