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The theory of spin drift and diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases is developed in terms of a random walk model incorporating Rashba, linear and cubic Dresselhaus, and intersubband spin-orbit couplings. The additional subband degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Gerson J. Ferreira , Felix G. G. Hernandez , Patrick Altmann , Gian Salis

In anisotropic crystals, the direction-dependent effective mass of carriers can have a profound impact on spin transport dynamics. The puckered crystal structure of black phosphorus (BP) leads to direction-dependent charge transport and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Luke Cording , Jiawei Liu , Jun You Tan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ahmet Avsar , Barbaros Özyilmaz

We study the transport of spin polarized electrons in n-GaAs using spatially resolved continuous wave Faraday rotation. From the measured steady state distribution, we determine spin relaxation times under drift conditions and, in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Beck , C. Metzner , S. Malzer , G. H. Döhler

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

Utilizing time-resolved Kerr rotation techniques, we have investigated the spin dynamics of a high mobility, low density two dimensional electron gas in a GaAs/Al0:35Ga0:65As heterostructure in dependence on temperature from 1.5 K to 30 K.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 X. Z. Ruan , H. H. Luo , Yang Ji , Z. Y. Xu , V. Umansky

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

Laser-induced ultrafast (fs) magnetization experiments in antiferromagnets have recently attracted large attention, paving the road for inherently fast spin dynamics in the THz regime without invoking stray fields. The technical importance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-13 Malte Behrmann , Frank Lechermann

The properties of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a semiconductor host with two valleys related by an underlying $C_4$ rotational symmetry are studied using Hartree-Fock (HF) and various other many-body approaches. A familiar…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Vladimir Calvera , Agnes Valenti , Sebastian D. Huber , Erez Berg , Steven A. Kivelson

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

We have studied the spin dynamics of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system in a GaAs/Al_{0.3}Ga_{0.7}As single quantum well by time-resolved Faraday rotation and time-resolved Kerr rotation in dependence on the initial degree of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 D. Stich , J. Zhou , T. Korn , R. Schulz , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , M. W. Wu , C. Schüller

The time evolution of a local spin excitation in a (001)-confined two-dimensional electron gas subjected to Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions of similar strength is investigated theoretically and compared with experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Salis , M. P. Walser , P. Altmann , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider

Graphene has emerged as the foremost material for future two-dimensional spintronics due to its tuneable electronic properties. In graphene, spin information can be transported over long distances and, in principle, be manipulated by using…

We study the spin-dependent transport through a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic electrodes using the equation of motion method for the nonequilibrium Green's functions. Our results show that the conductance and the density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huanwen Lai , Xuean Zhao , Zhu-An Xu , You-Quan Li

Spin transport phenomena in solid materials suffer limitations from spin relaxation associated to disorder or lack of translational invariance. Ultracold atoms, free of that disorder, can provide a platform to observe phenomena beyond the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-26 Iryna Miatka , Marco Barbieri , Roberto Raimondi

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

Spin dynamics in low dimensional magnetic systems has been of fundamental importance for a long time and has currently received an impetus owing to the emerging field of nanoelectronics. Knowledge of the spin wave lifetimes, in particular,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-19 Akash Chakraborty , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

Recent developments in attosecond spectroscopy yield access to the correlated motion of electrons on their intrinsic time scales. Spin-flip dynamics is usually considered in the context of valence electronic states, where spin-orbit…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2017-08-02 H. Wang , S. I. Bokarev , S. G. Aziz , O. Kühn

Spin-orbit (SO) interaction critically influences electron spin dynamics and spin transport in bulk semiconductors and semiconductor microstructures. This interaction couples electron spin to dc and ac electric fields. Spin coupling to ac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Emmanuel I. Rashba

Spatiotemporal spin dynamics under spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a (001) GaAs two-dimensional electron gas using magneto-optical Kerr rotation microscopy. Spin polarized electrons are diffused away from the excited position,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Daisuke Iizasa , Asuka Aoki , Takahito Saito , Junsaku Nitta , Gian Salis , Makoto Kohda

There has been considerable debate on the onset of exotic spin phenomena in quantum wires due to enhanced many-body effects caused by the one-dimensional (1D) alignment of charge carriers. We explain various observed spin effects, such as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Alfredo X. Sánchez , Jean-Pierre Leburton