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Prospect of building electronic devices in which electron spins store and transport information has revived interest in the spin relaxation of conduction electrons. Since spin-polarized currents cannot flow indefinitely, basic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

The spin relaxation rate $1/\tau_s (W)$ in disordered quantum wires with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling is derived analytically as a function of wire width $W$. It is found to be diminished when $W$ is smaller than the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Kettemann

We have studied the physical processes responsible for the spin -flip in GaAs quantum dots. We have calculated the rates for different mechanisms which are related to spin-orbit coupling and cause a spin-flip during the inelastic relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander V. Khaetskii , Yuli V. Nazarov

We have studied theoretically the electron spin relaxation in semiconductor quantum dots via interaction with nuclear spins. The relaxation is shown to be determined by three processes: (i) -- the precession of the electron spin in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. A. Merkulov , Al. L. Efros , M. Rosen

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

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

We study spin relaxation in dilute magnetic semiconductors near a ferromagnetic transition, where spin fluctuations become strong. An enhancement in the scattering rate of itinerant carriers from the spin fluctuations of localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Matthew D. Mower , G. Vignale

We performed path integral simulations of spin evolution controlled by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the semiclassical regime for chaotic and regular quantum dots. The spin polarization dynamics have been found to be strikingly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cheng-Hung Chang , A. G. Mal'shukov , K. A. Chao

We calculate electron and nuclear spin relaxation rates in a quantum dot due to the combined action of Nyquist noise and electron-nuclei hyperfine or spin-orbit interactions. The relaxation rate is linear in the resistance of the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Florian Marquardt , Veniamin A. Abalmassov

We study evolution of electron spin coherence having non-homogeneous direction of spin polarization vector in semiconductor heterostructures. It is found that the electron spin relaxation time due to the D'yakonov-Perel' relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy V. Pershin

We discuss the rate of relaxation of the total spin in the two-electron droplet in the vicinity of the magnetic field driven singlet-triplet transition. The total spin relaxation is attributed to spin-orbit and electron-phonon interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Dickmann , P. Hawrylak

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

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

Relaxation of conduction electron spins in a semiconductor owing to the hyperfine interaction with spin-1/2 nuclei, in zero applied magnetic field, is investigated. We calculate the electron spin relaxation time scales, in order to evaluate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

We theoretically investigate the D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation properties in diffusive wurtzite semiconductor nanowires and their impact on the quantum correction to the conductivity. Although the lifetime of the long-lived spin states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Michael Kammermeier , Paul Wenk , Florian Dirnberger , Dominique Bougeard , John Schliemann

The semiclassical path integral method has been applied for studying spin relaxation in a narrow 2D strip with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Our numerical calculations show a good agreement with the experimental data, although some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheng-Hung Chang , Jengjan Tsai , Hui-Fen Lo , A. G. Mal'shukov

We microscopically derive the spin diffusion equation in an s-wave superconductor in the vicinity of the superconducting transition temperature Tc. Applying the general relation between the relaxation function and the response function to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Takuya Taira , Masanori Ichioka , So Takei , Hiroto Adachi

The influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the electron spin dynamics is investigated for a ballistic semiconductor quantum wire with a finite width. We monitor the spin evolution using the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We study the relaxation of a spin density injected into a two-dimensional electron system with generic spin-orbit interactions. Our model includes the Rashba as well as linear and cubic Dresselhaus terms. We explicitly derive a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

We have theoretically studied the temporal fluctuations and the resulting kinetic noise in the average spin polarization of an electron ensemble drifting in a quantum wire under a high electric field. Electrons are initially injected in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Pramanik , S. Bandyopadhyay