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We investigate electron spin dynamics in narrow two-dimensional n-InGaAs channels as a function of the channel width. The spin relaxation times increase with decreasing channel width, in accordance with recent theoretical predictions based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Holleitner , V. Sih , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We analyze spin scattering in ballistic transport of electrons through a ripple at a normal incidence of an electron flow. The model of a ripple consists of a curved graphene surface in the form of an arc of a circle connected from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 M. Pudlak , K. N. Pichugin , R. G. Nazmitdinov

Developing a microscopic understanding of spin decoherence is essential to advancing quantum technologies. Electron spin decoherence due to atomic vibrations (phonons) plays a special role as it sets an intrinsic limit to the performance of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Jinsoo Park , Jin-Jian Zhou , Yao Luo , Marco Bernardi

Silicon is a leading candidate material for spin-based devices, and two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) formed in silicon heterostructures have been proposed for both spin transport and quantum dot quantum computing applications. The key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles Tahan , Robert Joynt

We study orbital and spin-orbit proximity effects in graphene adsorbed to the Cu(111) surface by means of density functional theory (DFT). The proximity effects are caused mainly by the hybridization of graphene $\pi$ and copper d orbitals.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Tobias Frank , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

Spin relaxation is investigated theoretically in two-dimensional systems. Various semiconductor structures of both n- and p-types are studied in detail. The most important spin relaxation mechanisms are considered. The spin relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. S. Averkiev , L. E. Golub , M. Willander

We theoretically study the proximity spin-orbit coupling in graphene on transition-metal dichalcogenides monolayer stacked with arbitrary twist angles. We find that the relative rotation greatly enhances the spin splitting of graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Yang Li , Mikito Koshino

Spin relaxation in-plane anisotropy is predicted for heterostructures based on zinc-blende semiconductors. It is shown that it manifests itself especially brightly if the two spin relaxation mechanisms (D'yakonov-Perel' and Rashba) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. S. Averkiev , L. E. Golub

We review recent advances on the theory of spin qubits in nanostructures. We focus on four selected topics. First, we show how to form spin qubits in the new and promising material graphene. Afterwards, we discuss spin relaxation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-29 B. Trauzettel , M. Borhani , M. Trif , D. Loss

We consider theoretically the influence of crystalline fields on the electronic structure of graphene placed on a layered material with reduced symmetry and large spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We use a perturbative procedure combined with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Tarik P. Cysne , Aires Ferreira , Tatiana G. Rappoport

In a heavily doped semiconductor with weak spin-orbital interaction the Dyakonov-Perel spin relaxation rate is known to be proportional to the Drude conductivity. We argue that in the case of weak spin-orbital interaction this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. I. Shklovskii

The spin relaxation in a 1D InAs quantum dot with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling under driving THz magnetic fields is investigated by developing the kinetic equation with the help of the Floquet-Markov theory, which is generalized to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Jiang , M. W. Wu

We present an analytical study of the D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation time for degenerate electrons in a photo-excited electron-hole liquid in intrinsic semiconductors exhibiting a spin-split band structure. The D'yakonov-Perel' spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-17 Matthew D. Mower , G. Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

We study the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in InAs/ GaSb and InAs quantum wells. We show through temperature- and gate-dependent magnetotransport measurements of weak antilocalization that the dominant spin-orbit relaxation mechanism in our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 F. Herling , C. Morrison , C. S. Knox , S. Zhang , O. Newell , M. Myronov , E. H. Linfield , C. H. Marrows

We present a first-principles approach for computing the phonon-limited $T_1$ spin relaxation time due to the Elliot-Yafet mechanism. Our scheme combines fully-relativistic spin-flip electron-phonon interactions with an approach to compute…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-22 Jinsoo Park , Jin-Jian Zhou , Marco Bernardi

Graphene is an attractive material for spintronics due to theoretical predictions of long spin lifetimes arising from low spin-orbit and hyperfine couplings. In experiments, however, spin lifetimes in single layer graphene (SLG) measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Wei Han , Jen-Ru Chen , Deqi Wang , Kathleen M. McCreary , Hua Wen , Adrian G. Swartz , Jing Shi , Roland K. Kawakami

We present a combined group-theoretical and tight-binding approach to calculate the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in ABC stacked trilayer graphene. We find that compared to monolayer graphene, a larger set of d orbitals (in particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 Andor Kormanyos , Guido Burkard

Starting from a microscopic tight-binding model and using second order perturbation theory, we derive explicit expressions for the intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit interaction induced gaps in the Dirac-like low-energy band structure of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hongki Min , J. E. Hill , N. A. Sinitsyn , B. R. Sahu , Leonard Kleinman , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate spin transport in InSb/InAlSb heterostructure using the Monte Carlo approach, generalized by including density matrix description of spin for taking spin dynamics into account. In addition to the dominant Dyakonov-Perel (DP)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Akashdeep Kamra , Bahniman Ghosh , Tarun K. Ghosh

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can provide essential tools to manipulate electron spins in two-dimensional materials like graphene, which is of great interest for both fundamental physics and spintronics application. In this paper, we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Shimin Cao , Chuanwu Cao , Shibing Tian , Jian-Hao Chen