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We perform a theoretical investigation on the time evolution of spin pulses in an $n$-type GaAs (001) quantum well with and without external electric field at high temperatures by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch…

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We report on the observation of spin whirls in a radially expanding polariton condensate formed under non-resonant optical excitation. Real space imaging of polarization- and time-resolved photoluminescence reveal a spiralling polarization…

In the field of spin-controlled semiconductor lasers, massive effort has been focused upon materials with long spin relaxation times (~ns). In contrast, we demonstrate room-temperature spin-polarized ultrafast pulsed lasing in InGaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Feng-kuo Hsu , Yi-Shan Lee , Sheng-Di Lin , Chih-Wei Lai

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

In this paper we will review Exciton Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells. The spin properties of excitons in nanostructures are determined by their fine structure. We will mainly focus in this review on GaAs and InGaAs quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Thierry Amand , Xavier Marie

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

We describe measurements of spin dynamics in the two-dimensional electron gas in GaAs/GaAlAs quantum wells. Optical techniques, including transient spin-grating spectroscopy, are used to probe the relaxation rates of spin polarization waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. P. Weber , J. Orenstein , B. Andrei Bernevig , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Jason Stephens , D. D. Awschalom

A curved two dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions due to the radial confinement asymmetry is considered. At certain relation between the spin-orbit coupling strength and curvature radius the tangential component of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

We develop a theory to calculate exciton binding energies of both two- and three-dimensional spin polarized exciton gases within a mean field approach. Our method allows the analysis of recent experiments showing the importance of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-15 J. Fernández-Rossier , C. Tejedor , L. Muñoz , L. Viña

We investigate, through polarization-resolved spectroscopy, the spin transport by propagating polariton condensates in a quasi one-dimensional microcavity ridge along macroscopic distances. Under circularly polarized, continuous-wave,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 C. Antón , S. Morina , T. Gao , P. S. Eldridge , T. C. H. Liew , M. D. Martín , Z. Hatzopoulos , P. G. Savvidis , I. A. Shelykh , L. Viña

We study the phase diagram of the inverted InAs/GaSb bilayer quantum wells. For small tunneling amplitude between the layers, we find that the system is prone to formation of an s-wave exciton condensate phase, where the spin-structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. I. Pikulin , T. Hyart

Spin dynamics of two-dimensional electron gas confined in an asymmetrical quantum well is studied theoretically in the regime where the scattering frequency is comparable with the spin precession frequency due to the conduction band spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-01 M. M. Glazov

We report the observation of an anomalous conductance plateau near G = 0.5 G0 (G0 = 2e2/h) in asymmetrically biased AlGaAs/GaAs quantum point contacts (QPCs), with in-plane side gates in the presence of lateral spin-orbit coupling. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 N. Bhandari , P. P. Das , M. Cahay , R. S. Newrock , S. T. Herbert

We report on the experimental observation of the non-linear analogue of the optical spin Hall effect under highly non-resonant circularly polarized excitation of an exciton polariton condensate in a GaAs/AlGaAs microcavity. Initially…

We investigated the spin coherence of high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases confined in multilayer GaAs quantum wells. The dynamics of the spin polarization was optically studied using pump-probe techniques: time-resolved Kerr…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 S. Ullah , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

This paper discusses the combined effects of optical excitation power, interface roughness, lattice temperature, and applied magnetic fields on the spin-coherence of excitonic states in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells. For low optical…

We have solved numerically the ground states of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of dipolar interparticle forces using a semiclassical approach. Our motivation is to model, in particular, the spontaneous spin textures emerging in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-07-14 J. A. M. Huhtamäki , M. Takahashi , T. P. Simula , T. Mizushima , K. Machida

We develop a theory of spin fluctuations of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity under the non-resonant unpolarized pumping. It is shown that the corresponding spin noise is sensitive to the scattering rates in the system,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. M. Glazov , M. A. Semina , E. Ya. Sherman , A. V. Kavokin

We analyze exciton spin dynamics in GaSe under nonresonant circularly polarized optical pumping with an exciton spin-flip rate-equation model. The model reproduces polarized time-dependent photoluminescence measurements in which the initial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Yanhao Tang , Wei Xie , Krishna C. Mandal , John A. McGuire , Chih-Wei Lai

The spin accumulation in an n-GaAs channel produced by spin extraction into a (Ga,Mn)As contact is measured by cross-sectional imaging of the spin polarization in GaAs. The spin polarization is observed in a 1 \mum thick n-GaAs channel with…