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Spin relaxation under identical Dresselhaus and Rashba coupling strengths in GaAs quantum wells is studied in both the traditional collinear statistics, where the energy spectra do not contain the spin-orbit coupling terms, and the helix…

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

We investigate the influence of the Hartree-Fock self-energy, acting as an effective magnetic field, on the anomalous D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation in InAs (110) quantum wells when the magnetic field in the Voigt configuration is much…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 T. Yu , M. W. Wu

Hole spin dephasing time due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism in $p$-type GaAs (100) quantum wells with well separated light-hole and heavy-hole bands is studied by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations. We…

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

In this work, the spin relaxation accompanying the spin diffusion in symmetric Si/SiGe quantum wells without the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-relaxation mechanism is calculated from a fully microscopic approach. The spin relaxation is caused by…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-07 P. Zhang , 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

Electron spin dynamics in InAs/GaAs heterostructures consisting of a single layer of InAs (1/3$\sim$1 monolayer) embeded in (001) and (311)A GaAs matrix was studied by means of time-resolved Kerr rotation spectroscopy. The spin relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chunlei Yang , Xiaodong Cui , Shun-Qing Shen , Zhongying Xu , Weikun Ge

We present a numerical study of dephasing of electron spin ensembles in a diffusive quasi-one-dimensional GaAs wire due to the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-dephasing mechanism. For widths of the wire below the spin precession length and for equal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-12 J. Liu , T. Last , E. J. Koop , S. Denega , B. J. van Wees , C. H. van der Wal

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

The electron spin relaxation in $n$-type and intrinsic GaAs$_{1-x}$Bi$_x$ with Bi composition $0\le x \le 0.1$ is investigated from the microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. The incorporation of Bi is shown to markedly decrease…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-19 H. Tong , X. Marie , M. W. Wu

By constructing and numerically solving the kinetic Bloch equations 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. In our study, we include…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

Electron spin relaxation in paramagnetic Ga(Mn)As quantum wells is studied via the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach where all the scatterings, such as the electron-impurity, electron-phonon, electron-electron Coulomb,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-02 J. H. Jiang , Y. Zhou , T. Korn , C. Schüller , M. W. Wu

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

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

A spin relaxation mechanism is proposed based on a second-order spin-flip intersubband spin-orbit coupling together with the spin-conserving scattering. The corresponding spin relaxation time is calculated via the Fermi golden rule. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-07 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

The electron spin dynamics in (111)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells is studied by timeresolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. By applying an external field of 50 kV/cm a two-order of magnitude increase of the spin relaxation time can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Balocchi , Q. H. Duong , P. Renucci , B. Liu , C. Fontaine , T. Amand , D. Lagarde , X. Marie

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

The influence of temperature and transport conditions on the electron spin relaxation in lightly doped n-type GaAs semiconductors is investigated. A Monte Carlo approach is used to simulate electron transport, including the evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-20 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo

We comment on the conclusion by Teng et al. [J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. {\bf 42}, 135111 (2009)] that the Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanism is more important than the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism at high carrier density in intrinsic bulk GaAs. We point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 J. H. Jiang , M. W. Wu

We report a systematic study of the spin relaxation anisotropy between single electron Zeeman sublevels in cuboidal GaAs quantum dots (QDs). The QDs are subject to an in-plane magnetic field. As the field orientation varies, the relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 C. Segarra , J. Planelles , J. I. Climente , F. Rajadell

The spin relaxation of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) formed in a symmetric quantum well is studied theoretically when the quantum well is parallel to the (110) plane of the zinc-blende structure, the spin polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 Hiroshi Akera , Hidekatsu Suzuura , Yoshiyuki Egami