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The inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect (IREE) in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) induced by spin pumping from an adjacent ferromagnetic insulator (FI) is investigated theoretically. In particular, spin and current densities in the 2DEG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 M. Yama , M. Matsuo , T. Kato

Hole spin dephasing time due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism in $p$-type GaAs (100) quantum wells with well separated light-hole and heavy-hole bands is studied by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Lü , J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu

Spin transport was studied in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted in a wide GaAs quantum well occupying two subbands. Using space and time Kerr rotation microscopy to image drifting spin packets under an in-plane accelerating electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 N. M . Kawahala , F. C. D. Moraes , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

Larmor's theorem holds for magnetic systems that are invariant under spin rotation. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling this invariance is lost and Larmor's theorem is broken: for systems of interacting electrons, this gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Shahrzad Karimi , Florent Baboux , Florent Perez , Carsten A. Ullrich , Grzegorz Karczewski , Tomasz Wojtowicz

By means the envelope function approximation, 8-band Kane model and a finite-difference scheme with the coordinate space discretization, we numerically performed calculations of the spin-orbit coupling parameters for 2D electron gas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Vladimir Degtyarev , Sofia Khazanova , Anton Konakov , Yury Danilov

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

Experimental studies of spin transport in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted by a triple GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well are reported. Using time-resolved Kerr rotation, we observed the precession of the spin polarization about a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Ullah , G. J. Ferreira , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

We investigate the magnetoelectric (or inverse spin-galvanic) effect in the two dimensional electron gases with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling using an exact solution of the Boltzmann equation for electron spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

In this work, we show that a gate electric field, applied in the base of the field-effect devices, leads to inducing spin-orbit interactions (Rashba and linear Dresselhauss) and confines the transport electrons in a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. L. Cardoso , H. Hernández-Saldaña

The effect of spin-orbit interaction was studied in a high-quality $p$-AlGaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs structure with a square quantum well using acoustic methods. The structure grown on a GaAs (100) substrate was symmetrically doped with carbon on both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We theoretically consider spin pumping in a junction between a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in which the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions coexist. Using second-order perturbation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 M. Yama , M. Tatsuno , T. Kato , M. Matsuo

We measure the spin-resolved transport of dipolar excitons in a biased GaAs double quantum well structure. From these measurements we extract both spin lifetime and mobility of the excitons. We find that below a temperature of $4.8$K, there…

The relative strengths of Rashba and Dresselhaus terms describing the spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor quantum well (QW) structures are extracted from photocurrent measurements on n-type InAs QWs containing a two-dimensional electron…

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling to a microwave excitation. We generalize the results of [A. Shnirman and I. Martin, Europhys. Lett. 78, 27001…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Alexander Shnirman

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

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 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 spin dynamics in a high-mobility two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with generic spin-orbit interactions (SOIs). We derive a set of spin dynamic equations which capture the purely exponential to the damped oscillatory spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Xin Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu , Jairo Sinova

In order to describe correctly the interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic spin-orbit mechanisms to the spin Hall effect, it is necessary to consider different sources of spin relaxation. We take into account the spin relaxation time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Roberto Raimondi , Peter Schwab

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