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Electron spin relaxation in bulk III-V semiconductors is investigated from a fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach where all relevant scatterings, such as, the electron--nonmagnetic-impurity, electron-phonon,…

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Metal halide perovskites make up a promising class of materials for semiconductor spintronics. Here we report a systematic investigation of coherent spin precession, spin dephasing and spin relaxation of electrons and holes in two hybrid…

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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

The spin relaxation time of electrons in GaAs and GaN are determined with a model that includes momentum scattering by phonons and ionized impurities, and spin scattering by the Elliot-Yafet, D'yakonov-Perel, and Bir-Aronov-Pikus…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Krishnamurthy , N. Newman , M. van Schilfgaarde

We report on the optical manipulation of the electron spin relaxation time in a GaAs based heterostructure. Experimental and theoretical study shows that the average electron spin relaxes through hyperfine interaction with the lattice…

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

The mechanisms for spin relaxation in semiconductors are reviewed, and the mechanism prevalent in p-doped semiconductors, namely spin relaxation due to the electron-hole exchange interaction, is presented in some depth. It is shown that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Ohms , K. Hiebbner , H. C. Schneider , M. Aeschlimann

We study the relaxation of a single electron spin in a circular quantum dot in a transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayer defined by electrostatic gating. Transition-metal dichalcogenides provide an interesting and promising arena for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-09 Alexander J. Pearce , Guido Burkard

A theory of electron spin relaxation in semiconducting carbon nanotubes is developed based on the hyperfine interaction with disordered nuclei spins I=1/2 of $^{13}$C isotopes. It is shown that strong radial confinement of electrons…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim , G. J. Iafrate

We present a generally applicable parameter-free first-principles method to determine electronic spin relaxation times and apply it to the technologically important group-IV materials silicon, diamond and graphite. We concentrate on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 Oscar D. Restrepo , Wolfgang Windl

The D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation induced by the spin-orbit interaction is examined in disordered two-dimensional electron gas. It is shown that, because of the electron-electron interactions different spin relaxation rates can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-11-16 Alexander Punnoose , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

Highly accurate numerical results of phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in silicon double quantum dots are presented. The relaxation, enabled by spin-orbit coupling and the nuclei of $^{29}$Si (natural or purified abundance), are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We report calculations of spin relaxation dynamics of two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction at the edge region. It is found that the relaxation of spin polarization near the edge is more slow than relaxation in the bulk.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yuriy V. Pershin

We present a detailed experimental and theoretical analysis of the spin dynamics of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) in a series of n-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells. Picosecond-resolution polarized pump-probe reflection techniques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 W. J. H. Leyland , G. H. John , R. T. Harley , M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields , M. Henini

A realistic pseudopotential model is introduced to investigate the phonon-induced spin relaxation of conduction electrons in bulk silicon. We find a surprisingly subtle interference of the Elliott and Yafet processes affecting the spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-05 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu , J. Fabian

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 investigate phonon-induced spin and charge relaxation mediated by spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions for a single electron confined within a double quantum dot. A simple toy model incorporating both direct decay to the ground state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-04 V. Srinivasa , K. C. Nowack , M. Shafiei , L. M. K. Vandersypen , J. M. Taylor

The evolution of the electron spin dynamics as consequence of carrier delocalization in $n$-type GaAs is investigated by the recently developed extended pump-probe Kerr/Faraday rotation spectroscopy. We find that isolated electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 V. V. Belykh , K. V. Kavokin , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

The spin-relaxation time for electrons in the impurity band of semiconductors with wurtzite crystal structure is determined. The effective Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction Hamiltonian is taken as the source of the spin relaxation at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Pablo I. Tamborenea , Thomas Wellens , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

We estimate the spin relaxation rate due to spin-orbit coupling and acoustic phonon scattering in weakly-confined quantum dots with up to five interacting electrons. The Full Configuration Interaction approach is used to account for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan I. Climente , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Massimo Rontani , Elisa Molinari