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We present a microscopic analysis of electron spin dynamics in the presence of an external magnetic field for non-centrosymmetric semiconductors in which the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-orbit interaction is the dominant spin relaxation mechanism.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Vadim I. Puller , Lev G. Mourokh , Anatoly Yu. Smirnov , Norman J. M. Horing

We study the spin relaxation in an interacting two--dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field for the case that the electron density is close to filling just one Landau sub--level of one spin projection, i.e., for filling factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Apel , Yu. A. Bychkov

We combine extensive precision measurements of the optically detected spin dynamics and magneto-transport measurements in a contiguous set of n-doped bulk GaAs structures in order to unambiguously unravel the intriguing but complex…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 J. G. Lonnemann , E. P. Rugeramigabo , M. Oestreich , J. Hübner

The spin diffusion/transport in $n$-type (001) GaAs quantum well at high temperatures ($\ge120$ K) is studied by setting up and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations together with the Poisson equation self-consistently. All…

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

We apply the D'yakonov-Perel' (DP) formalism to [111]-grown zincblende quantum wells (QWs) to compute the spin lifetimes of electrons in the two-dimensional electron gas. We account for both bulk and structural inversion asymmetry (Rashba)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Cartoixa , D. Z. -Y. Ting , Y. -C. Chang

Using time-resolved Faraday rotation, the drift-induced spin-orbit Field of a two-dimensional electron gas in an InGaAs quantum well is measured. Including measurements of the electron mobility, the Dresselhaus and Rashba coefficients are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-06 M. Studer , S. Schön , K. Ensslin , G. Salis

We present a complete description of spin injection and detection in Fe/Al_xGa_{1-x}As/GaAs heterostructures for temperatures from 2 to 295 K. Measurements of the steady-state spin polarization in the semiconductor indicate three…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Adelmann , X. Lou , J. Strand , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

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

Spin relaxation due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism is intimately related with the spin splitting of the electronic states. We determine the spin relaxation rates from anisotropic spin splittings of electron subbands in n-(001)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Kainz , U. Roessler , R. Winkler

The optical spin orientation effect in a GaAs/(Ga,Al)As quantum well containing a high-mobility 2D electron gas was found to be due to spin-polarized minority carriers, the holes. The observed oscillations of both the intensity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 A. V. Koudinov , R. I. Dzhioev , V. L. Korenev , V. F. Sapega , Yu. G. Kusrayev

Magnetic semiconductors have aroused interest due to their various functionalities related to spintronic devices. Manganese (Mn) as a substitutional impurity in A3B5 semiconductors supplies not only holes, but also localized spins. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-23 Veronika Burobina

D'yakonov-Perel' (DP) mechanism describes the dynamics of non-equilibrium spin distribution in a two-dimensional (2D) system in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we study the anisotropy of spin relaxation via the DP…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Seyed M. Farzaneh , Shaloo Rakheja

Intrinsic electron spin relaxation due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism is studied in monolayer Molybdenum Disulphide. An intervalley in-plane spin relaxation channel is revealed due to the opposite effective magnetic fields perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 L. Wang , M. W. Wu

We perform a many-body study of the spin dephasing due to the D'yakonov-Perel' effect in n-typed GaAs (100) quantum wells under high magnetic fields in the Voigt configuration by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic Bloch…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

Theory of the electron spin relaxation in graphene on the SiO$_2$ substrate is developed. Charged impurities and polar optical surface phonons in the substrate induce an effective random Bychkov-Rashba-like spin-orbit coupling field which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Ertler , S. Konschuh , M. Gmitra , J. Fabian

Multi-subband effect on spin precession and spin dephasing in $n$-type GaAs quantum wells is studied with electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering explicitly included. The effects of temperature, well width and applied electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

Strong interest has arisen recently on low-dimensional systems with strong spin-orbit interaction due to their peculiar properties of interest for some spintronic applications. Here, the time evolution of the electron spin polarization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grimaldi

Semiconductor Bloch equations, in their extension including the spin degree of freedom of the carriers, are capable to describe spin dynamics on a microscopic level. In the presence of free holes, electron spins can flip simultaneously with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Lechner , U. Roessler

We study the spin dynamics in the presence of impurity and electron-electron (e-e) scattering in a III-V semiconductor quantum well with arbitrary spin-orbit coupling (SOC) strength and symmetry at finite temperature. We derive the coupled…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-11 Xin Liu , Jairo Sinova

By means of time-resolved optical orientation under strong optical pumping, the k-dependence of the electron spin-flip time (t_sf) in undoped GaAs is experimentally determined. t_sf monotonically decreases by more than one order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-22 A. Amo , L. Vina , P. Lugli , C. Tejedor , A. I. Toropov , K. S. Zhuravlev