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Spin relaxation can be greatly enhanced in narrow channels of two-dimensional electron gas due to ballistic spin resonance, which is mediated by spin-orbit interaction for trajectories that bounce rapidly between channel walls. The channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 W. W. Yu , S. M. Frolov , S. Luescher , J. A. Folk , W. Wegscheider

We investigated the spin dynamics of two-dimensional electrons in (001) GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure using the time resolved Kerr rotation technique under a transverse magnetic field. The in-plane spin lifetime is found to be anisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-30 Baoli Liu , Hongming Zhao , Jia Wang , Linsheng Liu , Wenxin Wang , Haijun Zhu , Dongmin Chen

By solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations, we study the time evolution of the transient spin grating, whose spin polarization varies periodically in real space, confined in (001) GaAs quantum wells. With this study we can investigate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu , H. L. Cui

We report that the electron spin relaxation time, T1, in a GaAs quantum dot with a spin-1/2 ground state has a 180 degree periodicity in the orientation of the in-plane magnetic field. This periodicity has been predicted for circular dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-16 P. Scarlino , E. Kawakami , P. Stano , M. Shafiei , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , L. M. K. Vandersypen

In lateral quantum dots, the combined effect of both Dresselhaus and Bychkov-Rashba spin orbit coupling is equivalent to an effective magnetic field B_so which has the opposite sign for s_z=1/2 spin electrons. When the external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Konemann , R. J. Haug , D. K. Maude , V. I. Fal'ko , B. L. Altshuler

We characterize numerically and analytically the signatures of the spin-orbit interaction in a two-electron GaAs double quantum dot in the presence of an external magnetic field. In particular, we obtain the return probability of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Juan E. Rolon , Ernesto Cota , Sergio E. Ulloa

We observe millisecond spin-flip relaxation times of donor-bound electrons in high-purity n-GaAs . This is three orders of magnitude larger than previously reported lifetimes in n-GaAs . Spin-flip times are measured as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kai-Mei C. Fu , Wenzheng Yeo , Susan Clark , Charles Santori , Colin Stanley , M. C. Holland , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

We utilize the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach to investigate the steady-state spin diffusion in $n$-type (111) GaAs quantum wells, where the in-plane components of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling term and the Rashba term can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 B. Y. Sun , K. Shen

Coherent electron spin dynamics in 10-nm-wide InGaAs/InAlAs quantum wells is studied from 10 K to room temperature using time-resolved Kerr rotation. The spin lifetime exceeds 1 ns at 10 K and decreases with temperature. By varying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 T. Henn , L. Czornomaz , G. Salis

We present time-resolved measurements of spin-flip photon-assisted tunneling and spin-flip relaxation in a doubly occupied double quantum dot. The photon-assisted excitation rate as a function of magnetic field indicates that spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 F. R. Braakman , J. Danon , L. R. Schreiber , W. Wegscheider , L. M. K. Vandersypen

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

g-factor tuning of electrons in quantum dots is studied as function of in-plane and perpendicular magnetic fields for different confinements. Rashba and Dresselhaus effects are considered, and comparison is made between wide- and narrow-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 C. F. Destefani , Sergio E. Ulloa

Aiming at the optimization of the spin diffusion length in (001) GaAs quantum wells, we explore the effect of the anisotropy of the spin-orbit coupling on the competition between the Rashba and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings by…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu , I. C. da Cunha Lima

Spin relaxation of a single electron in a weakly coupled double quantum dot is calculated numerically. The phonon assisted spin flip is allowed by the presence of the linear and cubic spin-orbit couplings and nuclear spins. The rate is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Martin Raith , Thomas Pangerl , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

Spin drag measurements were performed in a two-dimensional electron system set close to the crossed spin helix regime and coupled by strong intersubband scattering. In a sample with uncommon combination of long spin lifetime and high charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 M. Luengo-Kovac , F. C. D. Moraes , G. J. Ferreira , A. S. L. Ribeiro , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , V. Sih , F. G. G. Hernandez

The spin splitting of conduction band electrons in inversion-asymmetric InGaAs/InP quantum wells is studied by Shubnikov-de Haas measurements combining the analysis of beating patterns and coincidence measurements in doubly tilted magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 F. Herzog , H. Hardtdegen , Th. Schaepers , D. Grundler , M. A. Wilde

Hole spins confined in semiconductor quantum dot systems have gained considerable interest for their strong spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) and relatively weak hyperfine interactions. Here we experimentally demonstrate a tunable SOI in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 He Liu , Ting Zhang , Ke Wang , Fei Gao , Gang Xu , Xin Zhang , Shu-Xiao Li , Gang Cao , Ting Wang , Jianjun Zhang , Xuedong Hu , Hai-Ou Li , Guo-Ping Guo

We experimentally and theoretically investigate the spin orbit (SO) field in a physically defined, p type metal oxide semiconductor double quantum dot in silicon. We measure the magnetic field dependence of the leakage current through the…

Hyperfine coupling of electron spins to nuclear spins is studied for a GaAs-based double quantum dot in the spin blockade regime where the electron conduction is mostly blocked by Pauli effect unless the electron spin state in the double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keiji Ono , Seigo Tarucha

GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots grown by in-situ droplet etching and nanohole infilling offer a combination of strong charge confinement, optical efficiency, and spatial symmetry required for polarization entanglement and spin-photon interface.…