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We argue that in the ensemble Monte Carlo approach, the spin decoherence caused by electron-electron interactions in n-type bulk GaAs at room temperature, according to Dyakonov-Perel theory, is mainly induced by the electron density while…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-29 Gionni Marchetti

We study spin relaxation in n-type bulk GaAs, due to the Dyakonov--Perel mechanism, using ensemble Monte Carlo methods. Our results confirm that spin relaxation time increases with the electronic density in the regime of moderate electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 Gionni Marchetti , Matthew Hodgson , James McHugh , Roy Chantrell , Irene D'Amico

We have studied the spin-polarized three-dimensional homogeneous electron gas using the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo method, with trial wave functions including backflow and three-body correlations in the Jastrow factor, and we have used…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-28 G G Spink , R J Needs , N D Drummond

The anticorrelation between quantum efficiency (QE) and electron spin polarization (ESP) from a p-doped GaAs activated to negative electron affinity (NEA) is studied in detail using an ensemble Monte Carlo approach. The photoabsorption,…

We study the effect of charged impurity screening on spin decoherence in bulk {\it n}-type GaAs, and analyse in details the effect of the use of different Born approximations applied to a linearized Thomas-Fermi screening theory. The spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-22 Gionni Marchetti , Irene D'Amico

We investigate spin transport in quasi 2DEG formed by III-V semiconductor heterojunctions using the Monte Carlo method. The results obtained with and without electron-electron scattering are compared and appreciable difference between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Akashdeep Kamra , Bahniman Ghosh

A semiclassical Monte Carlo approach is adopted to study the multivalley spin depolarization of drifting electrons in a doped n-type GaAs bulk semiconductor, in a wide range of lattice temperature ($40<T_L<300$ K) and doping density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-20 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo

We present extensive new \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for the spin-resolved density response of the uniform electron gas (UEG) at warm dense matter conditions. This allows us to unambiguously assess the accuracy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Tobias Dornheim , Jan Vorberger , Zhandos Moldabekov , Panagiotis Tolias

In this work, we develop a novel Monte Carlo method for solving the electromagnetic scattering problem. The method is based on a formal solution of the scattering problem as a modified Born series whose coefficients are found by a conformal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Hector Lopez-Menchon , Juan M. Rius , Alexander Heldring , Eduard Ubeda

We present a variational Monte Carlo study of a model one dimensional electron gas on the continuum, with long-range interaction (1/r decay). At low density the reduced dimensionality brings about pseudonodes of the many-body wavefunction,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Michele Casula , Gaetano Senatore

The correlation energy of the homogeneous three-dimensional interacting electron gas is calculated using the variational and fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo methods, with trial functions that include backflow and three-body correlations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yongkyung Kwon , D. M. Ceperley , Richard M. Martin

The influence of temperature and transport conditions on the electron spin relaxation in lightly doped n-type GaAs semiconductors is investigated. A Monte Carlo approach is used to simulate electron transport, including the evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-20 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo

Monte Carlo simulations are performed to study the in-plane transport of spin-polarized electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells. The density matrix description of the spin polarization is incorporated in the simulation algorithm. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Min Shen , Semion Saikin , Ming-C. Cheng , Vladimir Privman

We study decoherence of nuclear spins in a nanoscale GaAs device based on resistively detected nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). We demonstrate how the spin echo technique can be modified for our system, and this is compared to the damping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Go Yusa , Norio Kumada , Koji Muraki , Yoshiro Hirayama

A simple Monte Carlo procedure is described for simulating the multiple scattering and absorption of electrons with the incident energy in the range 1-50 keV moving through a slab of uniformly distributed material of given atomic number,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Nima Ghal-eh , Mohammad Farhad Rahimi , Mehrnoush Manouchehri

A method for Monte Carlo simulation of 2D spin-polarized electron transport in III-V semiconductor heterojunction FETs is presented. In the simulation, the dynamics of the electrons in coordinate and momentum space is treated…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-12 Min Shen , Semion Saikin , Ming-C. Cheng , Vladimir Privman

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 used time-resolved Kerr rotation technique to study the electron spin coherence in a comprehensive set of bulk CdTe samples with various concentrations of electrons that were supplied by n-type doping. The electron spin coherence time of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-17 D. Sprinzl , P. Horodyska , E. Belas , R. Grill , P. Maly , P. Nemec

We present a novel Monte Carlo algorithm which enhances equilibrization of low-temperature simulations and allows sampling of configurations over a large range of energies. The method is based on a non-Boltzmann probability weight factor…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Yuko Okamoto

We study the in-plane transport of spin-polarized electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells. The spin dynamics is controlled by the spin-orbit interaction, which arises via the Dresselhaus (bulk asymmetry) and Rashba (well asymmetry)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Semion Saikin , Min Shen , Ming-C. Cheng , Vladimir Privman
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