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Coupling of spin states and space motion of conduction electrons due to spin-orbit interaction opens up possibilities for manipulation of the electron spins by electrical means. It is shown here that spin orientation of a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Tarasenko

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

Larmor's theorem holds for magnetic systems that are invariant under spin rotation. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling this invariance is lost and Larmor's theorem is broken: for systems of interacting electrons, this gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Shahrzad Karimi , Florent Baboux , Florent Perez , Carsten A. Ullrich , Grzegorz Karczewski , Tomasz Wojtowicz

Spatiotemporal spin dynamics under spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a (001) GaAs two-dimensional electron gas using magneto-optical Kerr rotation microscopy. Spin polarized electrons are diffused away from the excited position,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Daisuke Iizasa , Asuka Aoki , Takahito Saito , Junsaku Nitta , Gian Salis , Makoto Kohda

Spin relaxation was studied in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in a wide GaAs quantum well. Recently, the control of the spin relaxation anisotropy by diffusive motion was first shown in D. Iizasa et al., arXiv:2006.08253 (2020).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 F. G. G. Hernandez , G. J. Ferreira , M. Luengo-Kovac , V. Sih , N. M. Kawahala , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

We study collective spin excitations in two-dimensional diluted magnetic semiconductors, placed into external magnetic field. Two coupled modes of the spin waves (the electron and ion modes) are found to exist in the system along with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. M. Shmakov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

We investigate effects of spin-orbit splitting on electronic transport in a spin valve consisting of a large quantum dot defined on a two-dimensional electron gas with two ferromagnetic contacts. In the presence of both structure inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Saarikoski , W. Wetzels , G. E. W. Bauer

Recent experiments have demonstrated long spin lifetimes in uniformly n-doped quantum wells. The spin dynamics of exciton, localized, and conduction spins are important for understanding these systems. We explain experimental behavior by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-02 N. J. Harmon , W. O. Putikka , R. Joynt

Disorder in spin-orbit (SO) coupling is an important feature of real low-dimensional electron structures. We study spin relaxation due to such a disorder as well as resulting abilities of spin manipulation. The spin relaxation reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , V. I. Ivanov , J. Barnas

We develop a theory of effects of electron-electron collisions on the Dyakonov-Perel' spin relaxation in multi-valley quantum wells. It is shown that the electron-electron scattering rate which governs the spin relaxation is different from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko

We consider theoretically the relaxation of electron spin component parallel to the growth direction in multiple (110) GaAs quantum wells. The sources of spin relaxation are the random Rashba spin-orbit coupling due to the electric field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-10 M. M. Glazov , M. A. Semina , E. Ya. Sherman

Dynamic response of two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction is studied theoretically on the basis of quantum kinetic equation, taking into account elastic scattering of electrons. The spin polarization and spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 O. E. Raichev

The D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism of spin relaxation is connected with the spin splitting of the electron dispersion curve in crystals lacking a center of symmetry. In a two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric system, e.g. quantum well or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko

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

The electron mediated exchange interaction between local spins adsorbed on two-dimensional surface is studied under non-equilibrium conditions. The effective spin-spin interaction is found to depend both on the spin-polarization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-29 J. Fransson

Based on a rigorous quantum-kinetic approach, spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations are derived for a strongly confined two-dimensional hole gas. An electric field leads to a coupling between the spin and charge degrees of freedom.…

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

In semiconductor heterostructures, bulk and structural inversion asymmetry and spin-orbit coupling induce a k-dependent spin splitting of valence and conduction subbands, which can be viewed as being caused by momentum-dependent crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. A. Ullrich , M. E. Flatte

We present a microscopic theory of spin-orbit coupling in the integer quantum Hall regime. The spin-orbit scattering length is evaluated in the limit of long-range random potential. The spin-flip rate is shown to be determined by rare…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. G. Polyakov

In a two-dimensional electron gas as realized by a semiconductor quantum well, the presence of spin-orbit coupling of both the Rashba and Dresselhaus type leads to anisotropic dispersion relations and Fermi contours. We study the effect of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

Spin dynamics of two-dimensional electrons in moderate in-plane electric fields is studied theoretically. The streaming regime is considered, where each electron accelerates until reaching the optical phonon energy, then it emits an optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 D. S. Smirnov , L. E. Golub