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We investigate the spin relaxation of $p$-type GaAs quantum wires by numerically solving the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equations. We find that the quantum-wire size influences the spin relaxation time effectively by modulating…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-24 C. Lü , U. Zülicke , M. W. Wu

We study the electron spin relaxation in intrinsic and $p$-type (001) GaAs quantum wells by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations. All the relevant scatterings are explicitly included, especially the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-21 J. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We calculate the spin relaxation time of conduction electrons in n-doped bulk gallium arsenide. We consider the Elliot-Yafet spin-relaxation mechanism, driven by Coulombic-impurity and electron-electron scattering. We find that these two…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. I. Tamborenea , M. A. Kuroda , F. L. Bottesi

The carrier spin dynamics in a n-doped (In,Ga)As/GaAs quantum well has been studied by time-resolved Faraday rotation and ellipticity techniques in the temperature range down to 430 milliKelvin. These techniques give data with very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 L. V. Fokina , I. A. Yugova , D. R. Yakovlev , M. M. Glazov , I. A. Akimov , A. Greilich , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , M. Bayer

Optically pumped nuclear magnetic resonance (OPNMR) measurements were performed in two different electron-doped multiple quantum well samples near the fractional quantum Hall effect ground state nu=1/3. Below 0.5K, the spectra provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. N. Kuzma , P. Khandelwal , S. E. Barrett , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The nuclear spin relaxation time $T_1$ is calculated taking account of the contributions from orbital currents of Dirac electrons. We consider a simple model of non-interacting Dirac electron gas in the three-dimensional bulk system. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Tomoki Hirosawa , Hideaki Maebashi , Masao Ogata

Time-resolved optical measurements in (110)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells show a ten-fold increase of the spin-relaxation rate as a function of applied electric field from 20 to 80 kV cm-1 at 170 K and indicate a similar variation at…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Z. Karimov , G. H. John , R. T. Harley , W. H. Lau , M. E. Flatte , M. Henini , R. Airey

We present measurements on nuclear spin relaxation probed by a single quantum dot in a high-mobility electron gas. Current passing through the dot leads to a spin transfer from the electronic to the nuclear spin system. Applying electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. Huettel , J. Weber , A. W. Holleitner , D. Weinmann , K. Eberl , R. H. Blick

Electron spin relaxation in a spin-polarized quantum Hall state is studied. Long spin relaxation times that are at least an order of magnitude longer than those measured in previous experiments were observed and explained within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 A. S. Zhuravlev , S. Dickmann , L. V. Kulik , I. V. Kukushkin

The D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation mechanism in n-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (QWs) has been studied both theoretically and experimentally. The temperature dependence of the spin relaxation time has been calculated for arbitrary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko , M. A. Brand , O. Z. Karimov , R. T. Harley

The dynamics of spin-lattice relaxation of the Mn-ions in (Zn,Mn)Se-based diluted-magnetic-semiconductor quantum wells is studied by time-resolved photoluminescence. The spin-lattice relaxation time varies by five orders of magnitude from…

We use recent developments in the framework of time dependent matrix product state method (t-MPS) to compute the NMR relaxation rate $1/T_1$ for spin-1/2 chains under magnetic field and for different Hamiltonians (XXX, XXZ, isotropically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-08 E. Coira , P. Barmettler , T. Giamarchi , C. Kollath

Zinc oxide is a wide-bandgap semiconductor which is considered a potential candidate for fabricating next-generation transparent spintronic devices. However, before this can be practically achieved, a thorough, scientific understanding of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 M. C. Prestgard , G. Siegel , R. Roundy , M. Raikh , A. Tiwari

We have studied spin relaxation in the spin ice compound Dy2Ti2O7 through measurements of the a.c. magnetic susceptibility. While the characteristic spin relaxation time is thermally activated at high temperatures, it becomes almost…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Snyder , B. G. Ueland , J. S. Slusky , H. Karunadasa , R. J. Cava , Ari Mizel , P. Schiffer

We present a detailed experimental and theoretical analysis of the spin dynamics of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) in a series of n-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells. Picosecond-resolution polarized pump-probe reflection techniques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 W. J. H. Leyland , G. H. John , R. T. Harley , M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields , M. Henini

We have studied the spin dynamics of a dense two-dimensional electron gas confined in a GaAs/AlGaAs triple quantum well by using time-resolved Kerr rotation and resonant spin amplification. Strong anisotropy of the spin relaxation time up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 S. Ullah , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

We investigate heavy-hole spin relaxation and decoherence in quantum dots in perpendicular magnetic fields. We show that at low temperatures the spin decoherence time is two times longer than the spin relaxation time. We find that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis V. Bulaev , Daniel Loss

Understanding and control of the spin relaxation time $T_1$ is among the key challenges for spin based qubits. A larger $T_1$ is generally favored, setting the fundamental upper limit to the qubit coherence and spin readout fidelity. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Leon C. Camenzind , Liuqi Yu , Peter Stano , Jeramy Zimmerman , Arthur C. Gossard , Daniel Loss , Dominik M. Zumbühl

We demonstrate that the peak in the density dependence of electron spin relaxation time in $n$-type bulk GaAs in the metallic regime predicted by Jiang and Wu [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79}, 125206 (2009)] has been realized experimentally in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-28 K. Shen

Spin relaxation time of conduction electrons through the Elliot-Yafet, D'yakonov-Perel and Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanisms is calculated theoretically for bulk GaAs, GaSb, InAs and InSb of both $n$- and $p$-type. Relative importance of each…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Pil Hun Song , K. W. Kim