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A theory of spin fluctuations of excitons in quantum wells in the presence of non-resonant excitation has been developed. Both bright and dark excitonic states have been taken into account. The effect of a magnetic field applied in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 D. S. Smirnov , M. M. Glazov

We study transport of indirect excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum wells in linear lattices created by laterally modulated gate voltage. The localization-delocalization transition (LDT) for transport across the lattice was observed with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-11 M. Remeika , J. C. Graves , A. T. Hammack , A. D. Meyertholen , M. M. Fogler , L. V. Butov , M. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We studied transport of indirect excitons (IXs) and IX mediated spin transport in a MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ van der Waals heterostructure in magnetic fields up to 8 T. We observed the long-range IX transport and the long-range IX mediated spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Zhiwen Zhou , W. J. Brunner , E. A. Szwed , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , L. V. Butov

Spin Hall effect for excitons in alkali halides and in Cu_2O is investigated theoretically. In both systems, the spin Hall effect results from the Berry curvature in k space, which becomes nonzero due to lifting of degeneracies of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-05 Shun-ichi Kuga , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

Exciton, trion and electron spin dynamics in a 20 nm wide modulation-doped GaAs single quantum well are investigated using resonant ultrafast two-color Kerr rotation spectroscopy. Excitons and trions are selectively detected by resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Sergiu Anghel , Akshay Singh , Felix Passmann , Hikaru Iwata , Nick Moore , Go Yusa , Xiaoqin Li , Markus Betz

We describe measurements of spin dynamics in the two-dimensional electron gas in GaAs/GaAlAs quantum wells. Optical techniques, including transient spin-grating spectroscopy, are used to probe the relaxation rates of spin polarization waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. P. Weber , J. Orenstein , B. Andrei Bernevig , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Jason Stephens , D. D. Awschalom

The band structure of type-I (In,Al)As/AlAs quantum dots with band gap energy exceeding 1.63 eV is indirect in momentum space, leading to long-lived exciton states with potential applications in quantum information. Optical access to these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Debus , T. S. Shamirzaev , D. Dunker , V. F. Sapega , E. L. Ivchenko , D. R. Yakovlev , A. I. Toropov , M. Bayer

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

Polariton spin carries the combination of the exciton and the photon spin, which is manifested in the circularly polarized emission degree in a III-V quantum wells microcavity system. Relaxation process of such spin system is a complex…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-14 T. V. Alencar , J. C. Gonzàlez , F. M. Matinaga

A simple method to create and control magnetic potentials onto coupled quantum wells is demonstrated for indirect-exciton magnetic confinement. Localized inhomogeneous magnetic potentials with periodically distributed local minima and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ahmed M. Abdelrahman , Byoung S. Ham

We provide a theoretical framework for the electric field control of the electron spin in systems with diffusive electron motion. The approach is valid in the experimentally important case where both intrinsic and extrinsic spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-10 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

We report on the unusual and counter-intuitive behaviour of spin lifetime of excitons in coupled semiconductor quantum wells (CQWs) in the presence of in-plane magnetic field. Instead of conventional acceleration of spin relaxation due to…

Coupling of spin states and space motion of conduction electrons due to spin-orbit interaction opens up possibilities for manipulation of the electron spins by electrical means. It is shown here that spin orientation of a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Tarasenko

The spin accumulation in an n-GaAs channel produced by spin extraction into a (Ga,Mn)As contact is measured by cross-sectional imaging of the spin polarization in GaAs. The spin polarization is observed in a 1 \mum thick n-GaAs channel with…

GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well (QW) system is utilized to investigate the electron spin relaxation in the satellite X-valley of indirect band gap Al0.63Ga0.37As epitaxial layers through polarization resolved photo-luminescence excitation…

In-plane magnetic field is found to change drastically the photoluminescence spectra and kinetics of interwell excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum wells. The effect is due to the in-plane magnetic field induced displacement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. V. Butov , A. V. Mintsev , Yu. E. Lozovik , K. L. Campman , A. C. Gossard

We investigate the energy relaxation of excitons during the real-space transport in ZnSe quantum wells by using microphotoluminescence with spatial resolution enhanced by a solid immersion lens. The spatial evolution of the LO-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Hui Zhao , Sebastian Moehl , Heinz Kalt

We develop a theory of extrinsic spin currents in semiconductors, resulting from spin-orbit coupling at charged scatterers, which leads to skew scattering and side jump contributions to the spin Hall conductance. Applying the theory to bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , Bertrand I. Halperin , Emmanuel I. Rashba

We use phase-resolved transient grating spectroscopy to measure the propagation of spin helices in a high mobility $n$-GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well with an applied in-plane electric field. At relatively low fields helical modes crossover from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 Luyi Yang , J. D. Koralek , J. Orenstein , D. R. Tibbetts , J. L. Reno , M. P. Lilly

Using a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation including short-range two-body attraction and three-body repulsion, we investigate the spatial distribution of indirect excitons in semiconductor coupled quantum wells. The results obtained can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. S. Liu , H. G. Luo , W. C. Wu