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The recent rise of material platforms combining magnetism and two-dimensionality of mobile carriers reveals a diverse spectrum of spin-orbit phenomena and stimulates its ongoing theoretical discussions. In this work we use the density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 K. S. Denisov

A method is presented to calculate the spin relaxation times T1, T2 due to a non-uniform magnetic field, and the linear-in-electric-field precession frequency shift {\delta}{\omega}E when an electric field is present, in the diffusion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Steven M. Clayton

Time-resolved Faraday rotation is used to study both transverse and longitudinal spin relaxation in chemically-synthesized CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) 22-80 Angstroms in diameter. The precession of optically-injected spins in a transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Gupta , D. D. Awschalom , Al. L. Efros , A. V. Rodina

A hybrid ferromagnet/semiconductor device is used to determine a lower bound on the spin lifetime for conduction electrons in silicon. We use spin precession to self-consistently measure the drift velocity vs. drift field of spin-polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Douwe J. Monsma , Ian Appelbaum

We study a large ensemble of nuclear spins interacting with a single electron spin in a quantum dot under optical excitation and photon detection. When a pair of applied laser fields satisfy two-photon resonance between the two ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dimitrije Stepanenko , Guido Burkard , Geza Giedke , Atac Imamoglu

High resolution spin-resolved photoemission is used to probe the properties of a Gd(0001) surface state. The state shows both a spin-mixing behavior reflecting the exchange of magnons with the local moments and a reduction of the exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Fedorov , T. Valla , F. Liu , P. D. Johnson , M. Weinert , P. B. Allen

We report a measurement of the spin-echo decay of a single electron spin confined in a semiconductor quantum dot. When we tip the spin in the transverse plane via a magnetic field burst, it dephases in 37 ns due to the Larmor precession…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 F. H. L. Koppens , K. C. Nowack , L. M. K. Vandersypen

Coherent spin oscillations were non-thermally induced by circularly polarized pulses in fully compensated antiferromagnetic NiO. This effect is attributed to an entirely new mechanism of the action, on the spins, of the effective magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-18 Takuya Satoh , Sung-Jin Cho , Ryugo Iida , Tsutomu Shimura , Kazuo Kuroda , Hiroaki Ueda , Yutaka Ueda , B. A. Ivanov , Franco Nori , Manfred Fiebig

We use all-electrical methods to inject, transport, and detect spin-polarized electrons vertically through a 350-micron-thick undoped single-crystal silicon wafer. Spin precession measurements in a perpendicular magnetic field at different…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Douwe J. Monsma , Ian Appelbaum

In bulk n-GaAs epilayers doped near the metal-insulator transition, we study the evolution of electron spin lifetime $\tau_s$ as a function of applied lateral electrical bias $E_x$. $\tau_s$ is measured via the Hanle effect using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Furis , D. L. Smith , J. L. Reno , S. A. Crooker

Spin relaxation was studied in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in a wide GaAs quantum well. Recently, the control of the spin relaxation anisotropy by diffusive motion was first shown in D. Iizasa et al., arXiv:2006.08253 (2020).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 F. G. G. Hernandez , G. J. Ferreira , M. Luengo-Kovac , V. Sih , N. M. Kawahala , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

The wide bandgap semiconductor ZnO is interesting for spintronic applications because of its small spin-orbit coupling implying a large spin coherence length. Utilizing vertical spin valve devices with ferromagnetic electrodes…

We describe how the spin coherence time of a localized electron spin in solids, i.e. a solid state spin qubit, can be prolonged by applying designed electron spin resonance pulse sequences. In particular, the spin echo decay due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-14 W. M. Witzel , S. Das Sarma

We have studied the role of spin-dependent processes on conductivity in polyfluorene (PFO) thin films by conducting continuous wave (c.w.) electrically detected magnetic resonance (EDMR) spectroscopy at temperatures between 10 K and 293 K…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-14 Richards Miller , K. J. van Schooten , H. Malissa , G. Joshi , S. Jamali , J. M. Lupton , C. Boehme

Erbium implanted silicon as a quantum technology platform has both telecommunications and integrated circuit processing compatibility. In Si implanted with Er to a concentration of 3x10^17 cm^3 and O to a concentration of 10^20 cm^3, the…

We consider spin relaxation of finite-size spin chains exchanged coupled with a one dimensional (1D) electron gas at the edge of a Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) insulator. Spin lifetimes can be enhanced due to two independent mechanisms. First,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 F. Delgado , J. Fernández-Rossier

We demonstrate long trion spin lifetimes in a WSe$_2$ monolayer of up to 150 ns at 5 K. Applying a transverse magnetic field in time-resolved Kerr-rotation measurements reveals a complex composition of the spin signal of up to four distinct…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-08 F. Volmer , S. Pissinger , M. Ersfeld , S. Kuhlen , C. Stampfer , B. Beschoten

We demonstrate optical orientation in Ge/SiGe quantum wells and study their spin properties. The ultrafast electron transfer from the center of the Brillouin zone to its edge allows us to achieve high spin-polarization efficiencies and to…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-19 F. Pezzoli , F. Bottegoni , D. Trivedi , F. Ciccacci , A. Giorgioni , P. Li , S. Cecchi , E. Grilli , Y. Song , M. Guzzi , H. Dery , G. Isella

We investigate theoretically the shielding of the electromagnetic field fluctuations by s-wave and d-wave superconductors within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. The spin flip lifetime is evaluated above a niobium and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rachele Fermani , Stefan Scheel

High-spin paramagnetic manganese defects in polar piezoelectric zinc oxide exhibit a simple almost axial anisotropy and phase coherence times of the order of a millisecond at low temperatures. The anisotropy energy is tunable using an…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-11 Richard E George , James P Edwards , Arzhang Ardavan