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We perform a many-body study of the spin dephasing due to the D'yakonov-Perel' effect in n-typed GaAs (100) quantum wells for high temperatures ($\geq 120$ K) under moderate magnetic fields in the Voigt configuration by constructing and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

We observe a strong dependence of the exciton spin relaxation in CdTe quantum dots on the average dot size and the depth of the confining potential. For the excitons confined to the as-grown CdTe quantum dots we find the spin relaxation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mackowski , T. Gurung , H. E. Jackson , L. M. Smith , W. Heiss , J. Kossut , G. Karczewski

A theory of electron spin relaxation in semiconducting carbon nanotubes is developed based on the hyperfine interaction with disordered nuclei spins I=1/2 of $^{13}$C isotopes. It is shown that strong radial confinement of electrons…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim , G. J. Iafrate

Spin kinetics in $n$-type InAs quantum wells under intense terahertz laser fields is investigated by developing fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equations via the Floquet-Markov theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function approach,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-08 J. H. Jiang , M. W. Wu , Y. Zhou

The D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism, intimately related to the spin splitting of the electronic states, usually dominates the spin relaxation in zinc blende semiconductor quantum structures. Previously it has been formulated for the two limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Kainz , U. Rossler , R. Winkler

We investigate the spin dynamics of electrons in quantum wells where the Rashba type of spin-orbit coupling is present in the form of random nanosize domains. We study the effect of magnetic field on the spin relaxation in these systems and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

We report electronic control and measurement of an imbalance between spin-up and spin-down electrons in micron-scale open quantum dots. Spin injection and detection was achieved with quantum point contacts tuned to have spin-selective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. J. Koop , B. J. van Wees , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , C. H. van der Wal

We present spin relaxation times of 2D holes obtained by means of spin sensitive bleaching of the absorption of infrared radiation in p-type GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (QWs). It is shown that the saturation of inter-subband absorption of…

The relaxation process of electron spin in systems of electrons interacting with piezoelectric deformation phonons that are mediated through spin-orbit interactions was interpreted from a microscopic point of view using the formula for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nam Lyong Kang

Multivalley spin relaxation in $n$-type bulk GaAs in the presence of high electric field is investigated from the microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach with the $\Gamma$ and $L$ valleys included. We show that the spin relaxation…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-09 H. Tong , M. W. Wu

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

We perform a many-body investigation of the spin dephasing in $n$-typed InAs quantum wells under moderate magnetic fields in the Voigt configuration by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic Bloch equations. We obtain the spin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

Multi-valley spin relaxation in $n$-type GaAs quantum wells with in-plane electric field is investigated at high temperature by means of kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. The spin relaxation time first increases and then decreases with…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-01 P. Zhang , J. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We study spin relaxation in n-type bulk GaAs, due to the Dyakonov--Perel mechanism, using ensemble Monte Carlo methods. Our results confirm that spin relaxation time increases with the electronic density in the regime of moderate electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 Gionni Marchetti , Matthew Hodgson , James McHugh , Roy Chantrell , Irene D'Amico

We employ the method of the theory of open quantum systems to analyze spin relaxation and decoherence in semiconductors in the presence of a magnetic field. We derive a set of Bloch equations for electron spin with a fully microscopic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim I. Puller , Lev G. Mourokh , Norman J. M. Horing , Anatoly Yu. Smirnov

The mechanisms that determine spin relaxation times of localized electrons in impurity bands of n-type semiconductors are considered theoretically and compared with available experimental data. The relaxation time of the non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. V. Kavokin

We examine the temperature dependence of the relaxation times of the molecules N@C60 and N@C70 (which comprise atomic nitrogen trapped within a carbon cage) in liquid CS2 solution. The results are inconsistent with the fluctuating zero…

Cyclotron resonance of two-dimensional electrons is studied at low temperatures down to 0.4 K for a high-mobility Si/SiGe quantum well which exhibits a metallic temperature dependence of dc resistivity $\rho$. The relaxation time $\tau_{\rm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ryuichi Masutomi , Kohei Sasaki , Ippei Yasuda , Akihito Sekine , Kentarou Sawano , Yasuhiro Shiraki , Tohru Okamoto

The temperature dependence of the spin diffusion length typically reflects the scattering mechanism responsible for spin relaxation. Within non-magnetic metals it is reasonable to expect the Elliot-Yafet mechanism to play a role and thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 J. T. Batley , M. C. Rosamond , M. Ali , E. H. Linfield , G. Burnell , B. J. Hickey

The temperature dependence of electron spin coherence in singly negatively charged (In,Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots is studied by time-resolved Faraday rotation. The decoherence time T2 is constant on a microsecond scale for temperatures below…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-14 F. G. G. Hernandez , A. Greilich , F. Brito , M. Wiemann , D. R. Yakovlev , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , M. Bayer