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We describe how the spin coherence time of a localized electron spin in solids, i.e. a solid state spin qubit, can be prolonged by applying designed electron spin resonance pulse sequences. In particular, the spin echo decay due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-14 W. M. Witzel , S. Das Sarma

Optical pump-probe measurements of spin-dynamics at temperatures down to 1.5K are described for a series of (001)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well samples containing high mobility two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs). For well widths…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 W. J. H. Leyland , R. T. Harley , M. Henini , D. Taylor , A. J. Shields , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

For spin-based quantum computation in semiconductors, dephasing of electron spins by a fluctuating background of nuclear spins is a main obstacle. Here we show that this nuclear background can be precisely controlled in generic quantum dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Sergej Markmann , Christian Reichl , Werner Wegscheider , Gian Salis

The spin diffusion concept provides a classical description of a purely quantum-mechanical evolution in inhomogeneously polarized many-body systems such as nuclear spin lattices. The central spin of a localized electron alters nuclear spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Peter Millington-Hotze , Santanu Manna , Saimon F. Covre da Silva , Armando Rastelli , Evgeny A. Chekhovich

The study of electron transport and scattering processes limiting electron mobility in high-quality semiconductor structures is central to solid-state electronics. Here, we uncover an unavoidable source of electron scattering which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-26 S. A. Tarasenko , Guido Burkard

We combine extensive precision measurements of the optically detected spin dynamics and magneto-transport measurements in a contiguous set of n-doped bulk GaAs structures in order to unambiguously unravel the intriguing but complex…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 J. G. Lonnemann , E. P. Rugeramigabo , M. Oestreich , J. Hübner

We report experimental results of the effect of Ka-band microwave on the spin dynamics of electrons in a 2D electron system in a GaAs/Al0.35Ga0.65As heterostructure, via time-resolved Kerr rotation measurements. While the microwave reduces…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Haihui Luo , Xuan Qian , Xiaofang Gu , Yang Ji , V. Umansky

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

We present a quantum solution to the electron spin decoherence by a nuclear pair-correlation method for the electron-nuclear spin dynamics under a strong magnetic field and a temperature high for the nuclear spins but low for the electron.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wang Yao , Ren-Bao Liu , L. J. Sham

We predict a spin pure dephasing channel in electron relaxation between states with unequal Zeeman splittings, exemplified by a spin-preserving electron tunneling between quantum dots in a magnetic field. The dephasing is caused by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Michał Gawełczyk , Mateusz Krzykowski , Krzysztof Gawarecki , Paweł Machnikowski

The population dynamics of dark and bright excitons in (In,Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots is studied by two-color pump-probe spectroscopy in an external magnetic field. With the field applied in Faraday geometry and at T<20 K, the dark excitons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 H. Kurtze , D. R. Yakovlev , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , M. Bayer

We investigate the spin relaxation limited by the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism in $n$-type (111) GaAs quantum wells, by means of the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. In (111) GaAs quantum wells, the in-plane effective magnetic field from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 B. Y. Sun , P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

Carrier and spin recombination are investigated in p-type GaAs of acceptor concentration NA = 1.5 x 10^(17) cm^(-3) using time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy at 15 K. At low pho- tocarrier concentration, acceptors are mostly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 F. Cadiz , D. Lagarde , P. Renucci , D. Paget , T. Amand , H. Carrère , A. C. H. Rowe , S. Arscott

We report on time-resolved Kerr rotation measurements of spin coherence of electrons in the first excited subband of a high-mobility low-density two-dimensional electron system in a GaAs/Al0.35Ga0.65As heterostructure. While the transverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Haihui Luo , Xuan Qian , Xuezhong Ruan , Yang Ji

New experiment arrangement to study spin rotation and oscillation of particles of gas target through which beam of high energy particles passes is discussed. Such experiment arrangement make it realizable for storage ring and allows to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Vladimir Baryshevsky

When spin relaxation is governed by spontaneous emission of a photon into the resonator used for signal detection (the Purcell effect), the relaxation time $T_1$ depends on the spin-resonator frequency detuning $\delta$ and coupling…

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

A long spin-lifetime of electrons is the holy grail of spintronics, a field exploiting the electron angular momentum as information carrier and storage unit. Previous reports indicated a spin lifetime, $\tau_{\text{s}}$ near $10$ ns at best…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Bence G. Márkus , Dávid Beke , Lili Vajtai , András Jánossy , László Forró , Ferenc Simon

Spin kinetics in $n$-type InAs quantum wells under intense terahertz laser fields is investigated by developing fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equations via the Floquet-Markov theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function approach,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-08 J. H. Jiang , M. W. Wu , Y. Zhou

We have studied the edge spin accumulation in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas formed in a symmetric well with two subbands. This study is strongly motivated by the recent experiment of Hernandez et al. [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 88},…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Alexander Khaetskii , J. Carlos Egues