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The electron spin dynamics in (111)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells is studied by timeresolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. By applying an external field of 50 kV/cm a two-order of magnitude increase of the spin relaxation time can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Balocchi , Q. H. Duong , P. Renucci , B. Liu , C. Fontaine , T. Amand , D. Lagarde , X. Marie

The electron spin relaxation times in a system of electrons interacting with piezoelectric phonons mediated through spin-orbit interactions were calculated using the formula derived from the projection-reduction method. The results showed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nam Lyong Kang

Intensity distribution of the neutron magnetic scattering has been taken in the reciprocal space of a single crystal of the "spin ice" system Ho2Ti2O7 at the elastic energy position in the temperature (T) region between 0.4 K and 50 K. The…

We develop the microscopic theory of the extrinsic spin Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas, including skew-scattering, side-jump, and Coulomb interaction effects. We find that while the spin-Hall conductivity connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Hankiewicz , Giovanni Vignale

Understanding the spin dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures is highly important for future semiconductor spintronic devices. In high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems (2DES), the spin lifetime strongly depends on the initial…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Tobias Korn , Dominik Stich , Robert Schulz , Dieter Schuh , Werner Wegscheider , Christian Schüller

Spin-flip scattering of charge carriers in metals with magnetic defects leads to the low-temperature saturation of the decoherence time, $\tau_\varphi$, of electrons at the value comparable to their spin relaxation time, $\tau_s$. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Oleksiy Kashuba , Leonid I. Glazman , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The long standing problem of inexplicably short spin relaxation in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is examined. The curvature-mediated spin-orbital interaction is shown to induce fluctuating electron spin precession causing efficient relaxation in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , K. W. Kim

We present a numerical study of magnetic phases of the 2D electron gas near freezing. The calculations are performed by diffusion Monte Carlo in the fixed node approximation. At variance with the 3D case we find no evidence for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Varsano , S. Moroni , G. Senatore

In p+ GaAs thin films, the effect of photoelectron degeneracy on spin transport is investigated theoretically and experimentally by imaging the spin polarization profile as a function of distance from a tightly-focussed light excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 F. Cadiz , D. Paget , A. C. H. Rowe , T. Amand , P. Barate , S. Arscott

We provide the first observation of weak localization in high carrier density two-dimensional electron gas in AlInN/GaN heterostructures; at low temperatures and low fields the conductivity increases with increasing magnetic field. Weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Leizhi Wang , Ming Yin , Asif Khan , Sakib Muhtadi , Fatima Asif , Eun Sang Choi , Timir Datta

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

We develop an extended pump-probe Faraday rotation technique to study the submicrosecond electron spin dynamics with picosecond time resolution in a wide range of magnetic fields. The electron spin dephasing time $T_2^*$ and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 V. V. Belykh , E. Evers , D. R. Yakovlev , F. Fobbe , A. Greilich , M. Bayer

We calculate the Coulomb scattering amplitude for two electrons injected with opposite momenta in an interacting 2DEG. We include the effect of the Fermi liquid background by solving the 2D Bethe-Salpeter equation for the two-particle Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Saraga , B. L. Altshuler , Daniel Loss , R. M. Westervelt

The temperature dependence of the spin diffusion length typically reflects the scattering mechanism responsible for spin relaxation. Within non-magnetic metals it is reasonable to expect the Elliot-Yafet mechanism to play a role and thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 J. T. Batley , M. C. Rosamond , M. Ali , E. H. Linfield , G. Burnell , B. J. Hickey

Understanding spin relaxation in topological systems such as quantum spin-hall (QSH) insulator is critical for realizing coherent transport at high temperature. WTe$_{2}$, known as a QSH insulator with a high transition temperature of 100K,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Junqing Xu , Hiroyuki Takenaka , Andrew Grieder , Jacopo Simoni , Ravishankar Sundraraman , Yuan Ping

We address the decoherence of a localized electron spin in an external magnetic field due to the hyperfine interaction with a lattice of nuclear spins. Using a completely non-perturbative method, rigorous bounds on the T_1 and T_2 coherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neil Shenvi , Rogerio de Sousa , K. Birgitta Whaley

The temperature evolution of spin relaxation time, {\tau}sf, in degenerate silicon (Si)-based lateral spin valves is investigated by means of the Hanle effect measurements. {\tau}sf at 300 K is estimated to be 1.68+-0.03 ns and…

We have studied the static and dynamic magnetic properties of two-dimensional (2D) and quasi-two-dimensional, spin-S, quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets (QHAF) diluted with spinless vacancies. Using spin-wave theory and T-matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. L. Chernyshev , Y. C. Chen , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the thermal conductivity of the disordered two-dimensional electron gas. To this end we analyze the heat density-heat density correlation function concentrating on the scattering processes induced by the Coulomb interaction in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkel'stein

Using scanning gate microscopy (SGM), we probe the scattering between a beam of electrons and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) as a function of the beam's injection energy, and distance from the injection point. At low injection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-02 M. P. Jura , M. Grobis , M. A. Topinka , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , D. Goldhaber-Gordon