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The concept of anisotropy of spin relaxation in non-magnetic metals with respect to the spin direction of the injected electrons relative to the crystal orientation is introduced. The effect is related to an anisotropy of the Elliott-Yafet…

We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Spin transport experiments in graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, indicate spin relaxation times that are significantly shorter than the theoretical predictions. We investigate experimentally whether these short spin relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Popinciuc , C. Józsa , P. J. Zomer , N. Tombros , A. Veligura , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

We study spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with a pure gauge non-Abelian spin-orbit field, for which systems with balanced Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, and the (110)-axis grown GaAs quantum wells are typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

In order to split the influence of the orbital and spin effects on the inplane magnetoresistance of a quasi two-dimensional gas we derive its linear response function and dielectric function for the case of anisotropic effective mass. This…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Khrapai

Based on kinetic equations for the density matrix, drift-diffusion equations are derived for a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Universal results are obtained for the weak coupling case. Most interesting is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Bryksin , P. Kleinert

Spin noise sets fundamental limits to the precision of measurements using spin-polarized atomic vapors, such as performed with sensitive atomic magnetometers. Spin squeezing offers the possibility to extend the measurement precision beyond…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. K. Kominis

We investigate the spin relaxation induced by acoustic phonons in the presence of spin-orbit interactions in single electron Si/SiGe lateral coupled quantum dots. The relaxation rates are computed numerically in single and double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We investigate the magnetoelectric (or inverse spin-galvanic) effect in the two dimensional electron gases with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling using an exact solution of the Boltzmann equation for electron spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

The non-equilibrium transportation of two-dimensional electrons through a narrow channel is investigated under the influence of the Rashba interaction. By introducing suitable lifetime in the Green's function, the average spin values can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Yi-Ying Chin , Jui-Yu Chiu , Ming-Che Chang , Chung-Yu Mou

We investigate electron spin dynamics in narrow two-dimensional n-InGaAs channels as a function of the channel width. The spin relaxation times increase with decreasing channel width, in accordance with recent theoretical predictions based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Holleitner , V. Sih , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

The magnetoresistance of a low carrier density, disordered GaAs based two-dimensional (2D) electron gas has been measured in parallel magnetic fields up to 32 T. The feature in the resistance associated with the complete spin polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 B. A. Piot , D. K. Maude , U. Gennser , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly

We report measurements of spin susceptibility of a two-dimensional hole gas confined at an GaAs/AlGaAs interface in density range from 2.8 x 10^10 to 6.5 x 10^10 cm-2. We used the method of spin polarization of carriers in parallel magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mukesh Kumar , Giorgio Mori , Flavio Capotondi , Giorgio Biasiol , Lucia Sorba

Spin effects in a normal two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in lateral contact with a 2D region with spin-orbit interaction are studied. The peculiarity of this system is the presence of spin-dependent scattering of electrons from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov , Yurii Ya. Tkach

In a bulk GaAs crystal, an unusual magnetoresistance effect, which takes place when a spin-polarized current flows through the sample, was detected. Under conditions of optical pumping of electron spins, an external magnetic field directed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 M. D. Ragoza , N. V. Kozyrev , S. V. Nekrasov , B. R. Namozov , Yu. G. Kusrayev , N. Bart , A. Ludwig , A. D. Wieck

This study explores the relationship between spin diffusion, spin lifetime, electron density and lateral spatial confinement in two-dimensional electron gases hosted in GaAs quantum wells. Using time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 B. W. Grobecker , A. V. Poshakinskiy , S. Anghel , T. Mano , G. Yusa , M. Betz

Spin-orbit coupling is a source of strong spin dephasing in two- and three-dimensional semiconducting systems. We report that spin dephasing in a two-dimensional electron gas can be suppressed by introducing a quantum point contact.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Jae-Seung Jeong , Hyun-Woo Lee

How does an initially homogeneous spin-polarization in a confined two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling evolve in time? How does the relaxation time depend on system size? We study these questions for systems of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Schwab , Michael Dzierzawa , Cosimo Gorini , Roberto Raimondi

The ac conductance of a finite tubular two-dimensional electron gas is studied in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. When the tube is coupled to two reservoirs, that interaction splits the steps in the dc current,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 E. A. Rothstein , B. Horovitz , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

We study theoretically phonon-assisted spin relaxation of an electron confined in an elliptical quantum dot (QD) subjected to a tilted magnetic field. In the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit terms, the relaxation rate is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Olendski , T. V. Shahbazyan