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Carbon based systems are prominent candidates for a solid-state spin-qubit due to weak spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions in combination with a low natural abundance of spin carrying isotopes. We consider the effect of the hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 Moritz Fuchs , Valentin Rychkov , Björn Trauzettel

We report on experiments demonstrating coherent control of magnon spin transport and pseudospin dynamics in a thin film of the antiferromagnetic insulator hematite utilizing two Pt strips for all-electrical magnon injection and detection.…

We study the spin relaxation in graphene due to magnetic moments induced by defects. We propose and employ in our studies a microscopic model that describes magnetic impurity scattering processes mediated by charge puddles. This model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Vladimir G. Miranda , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Caio H. Lewenkopf

We study theoretically the spin transport in a device in which the active layer is an organic film with numerous deep in-gap levels serving as traps. A carrier, diffusing between magnetized injector and detector, spends a considerable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 R. C. Roundy , M. E. Raikh

We calculate the spin relaxation time of mobile electrons due to spin precession between random impurity scattering (D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism) in electrically gated bilayer graphene analytically and numerically. Due to the trigonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 Mathias Diez , Guido Burkard

Electrical spin orientation is the generation of electron spin proportional to the electric current. This phenomenon is allowed by symmetry in gyrotropic systems, e.g. in inversion-asymmetric structures with Rashba spin-orbit splitting.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

We perform a comparative study of the spin relaxation by spin-orbit coupling induced from adatoms (hydrogen and fluorine) in graphene. Two methods are applied, giving consistent results: a full quantum transport simulation of a graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jan Bundesmann , Denis Kochan , Fedor Tkatschenko , Jaroslav Fabian , Klaus Richter

We investigate the intrinsic spin relaxation of conduction electrons in germanium due to electron-phonon scattering. We derive intravalley and intervalley spin-flip matrix elements for a general spin orientation and quantify the resulting…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-19 Pengke Li , Yang Song , Hanan Dery

An experimental test at the intersection of quantum physics and general relativity is proposed: measurement of relativistic frame dragging and geodetic precession using intrinsic spin of electrons. The behavior of intrinsic spin in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 Pavel Fadeev , Tao Wang , Y. B. Band , Dmitry Budker , Peter W. Graham , Alexander O. Sushkov , Derek F. Jackson Kimball

The electron spin relaxation times in a system of electrons interacting with piezoelectric phonons mediated through spin-orbit interactions were calculated using the formula derived from the projection-reduction method. The results showed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nam Lyong Kang

We study the influence of ripple waves originating from the electromechanical effects on spin relaxation caused by electromagnetic fields in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). By utilizing analytical expressions supported by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Shyam Badu

We study the transport of spin polarized electrons in n-GaAs using spatially resolved continuous wave Faraday rotation. From the measured steady state distribution, we determine spin relaxation times under drift conditions and, in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Beck , C. Metzner , S. Malzer , G. H. Döhler

Spin relaxation is investigated theoretically in two-dimensional systems. Various semiconductor structures of both n- and p-types are studied in detail. The most important spin relaxation mechanisms are considered. The spin relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. S. Averkiev , L. E. Golub , M. Willander

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

Since its discovery, graphene has been a promising material for spintronics: its low spin-orbit coupling, negligible hyperfine interaction, and high electron mobility are obvious advantages for transporting spin information over long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Jose H. Garcia , Marc Vila , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

We theoretically investigate spin dynamics in spin-orbit-coupled materials. In the ballistic limit, the spin lifetime is dictated by dephasing that arises from energy broadening plus a non-uniform spin precession. For the case of clean…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-26 Aron W. Cummings , S. Roche

We present a theoretical study of the anisotropy of the spin relaxation and decoherence in typical quantum wells with an arbitrary magnetic field. In such systems, the orientation of the magnetic field relative to the main crystallographic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 M. Prada , D. Pfannkuche

Graphene supported on a transition metal dichalcogenide substrate offers a novel platform to study the spin transport in graphene in presence of a substrate induced spin-orbit coupling, while preserving its intrinsic charge transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Siddhartha Omar , Bart J. van Wees

In graphene spintronics, interaction of localized magnetic moments with the electron spins paves a new way to explore the underlying spin relaxation mechanism. A self-assembled layer of organic cobalt-porphyrin (CoPP) molecules on graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 S. Omar , M. Gurram , I. J. Vera-Marun , X. Zhang , E. H. Huisman , A. Kaverzin , B. L. Feringa , B. J. van Wees

Aiming to understand the main spin relaxation mechanism in graphene, we investigate the spin relaxation with random Rashba field induced by both adatoms and substrate, by means of the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. The charged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 P. Zhang , M. W. Wu