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Electron spin relaxation caused by the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism is investigated theoretically in asymmetrical A$_3$B$_5$ heterostructures. The total spin relaxation anisotropy is demonstrated for a wide range of structure parameters and…
The D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation mechanism in n-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (QWs) has been studied both theoretically and experimentally. The temperature dependence of the spin relaxation time has been calculated for arbitrary…
Carrier density dependence of electron spin relaxation in an intrinsic GaAs quantum well is investigated at room temperature using time-resolved circularly polarized pump-probe spectroscopy. It is revealed that the spin relaxation time…
We study the spin-relaxation time in materials where a large spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is present which breaks the spatial inversion symmetry. Such a spin-orbit coupling is realized in zincblende structures and heterostructures with a…
We report the anomalous Dyakonov-Perel' spin relaxation in ultracold spin-orbit coupled $^{40}$K gas when the coupling between $|9/2,9/2\ >$ and $|9/2,7/2\ >$ states (atcing as the effective Zeeman magnetic field) is much stronger than the…
Spin relaxation time of conduction electrons through the Elliot-Yafet, D'yakonov-Perel and Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanisms is calculated theoretically for bulk GaAs, GaSb, InAs and InSb of both $n$- and $p$-type. Relative importance of each…
The theoretically predicted intrinsic spin relaxation time of up to 1 $\mu s$ in graphene along with extremely high mobilities makes it a promising material in spintronics. In spite of extensive experimental studies of spin relaxation and…
Spintronic devices usually rely on long spin relaxation times and/or lengths for optimum performance. Therefore, the ability to modulate these quantities with an external agent offers unique possibilities. The dominant spin relaxation…
Ballistic spin resonance was experimentally observed in a quasi-one-dimensional wire by Frolov et al. [Nature (London) 458, 868 (2009)]. The spin resonance was generated by a combination of an external static magnetic field and the…
D'yakonov-Perel' (DP) mechanism describes the dynamics of non-equilibrium spin distribution in a two-dimensional (2D) system in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we study the anisotropy of spin relaxation via the DP…
Low-temperature electron spin relaxation is studied by the optical orientation method in bulk n-GaAs with donor concentrations from 10^14 cm^{-3} to 5x10^17 cm^{-3}. A peculiarity related to the metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) is…
The relaxation process of electron spin in systems of electrons interacting with piezoelectric deformation phonons that are mediated through spin-orbit interactions was interpreted from a microscopic point of view using the formula for the…
The relaxation time of a single-electron spin is an important parameter for solid-state spin qubits, as it directly limits the lifetime of the encoded information. Thanks to the low spin-orbit interaction and low hyperfine coupling,…
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…
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…
The fundamental spin-orbit coupling and spin mixing in graphene and rippled honeycomb lattice materials silicene, germanene, stanene, blue phosphorene, arsenene, antimonene, and bismuthene is investigated from first principles. The…
We present a broadband ferromagnetic resonance study of the Gilbert damping enhancement ($\Delta \alpha$) due to spin pumping in NiFe/Pt bilayers. The bilayers, which have negligible interfacial spin memory loss, are studied as a function…
The understanding of spin dynamics and relaxation mechanisms in clean graphene and the upper time and length scales on which spin devices can operate are prerequisites to realizing graphene spintronic technologies. Here we theoretically…
Utilizing time-resolved Kerr rotation techniques, we have investigated the spin dynamics of a high mobility, low density two dimensional electron gas in a GaAs/Al0:35Ga0:65As heterostructure in dependence on temperature from 1.5 K to 30 K.…
We use semiclassical Monte Carlo approach along with spin density matrix calculations to model spin polarized electron transport. The model is applied to germanium nanowires and germanium two dimensional channels to study and compare spin…