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Designing new quantum materials with long-lived electron spin states urgently requires a general theoretical formalism and computational technique to reliably predict intrinsic spin relaxation times. We present a new, accurate and universal…

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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

There currently is a large effort to explore spin-orbit effects in semiconductor structures with the ultimate goal of manipulating electron spins with gates. A search for materials with large spin-orbit coupling is therefore important. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Studenikin , P. T. Coleridge , P. Poole , A. Sachrajda

Hole spin dephasing time due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism in $p$-type GaAs (100) quantum wells with well separated light-hole and heavy-hole bands is studied by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Lü , J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu

Endohedral fullerenes encapsulating a spin-active atom or ion within a carbon cage offer a route to self-assembled arrays such as spin chains. In the case of metallofullerenes the charge transfer between the atom and the fullerene cage has…

We investigate decoherence due to pure dephasing of a localized spin qubit interacting with a nuclear spin bath. Although in the limit of a very large magnetic field the only decoherence mechanism is spectral diffusion due to dipolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 L. Cywinski , W. M. Witzel , S. Das Sarma

We have studied the spin dynamics of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system in a GaAs/Al_{0.3}Ga_{0.7}As single quantum well by time-resolved Faraday rotation and time-resolved Kerr rotation in dependence on the initial degree of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 D. Stich , J. Zhou , T. Korn , R. Schulz , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , M. W. Wu , C. Schüller

We study the spin relaxation in an interacting two--dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field for the case that the electron density is close to filling just one Landau sub--level of one spin projection, i.e., for filling factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Apel , Yu. A. Bychkov

We perform an investigation on the spin relaxation for $n$-type ZnO (0001) quantum wells by numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations with all the relevant scattering explicitly included. We show the temperature and electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-10 C. Lü , J. L. Cheng

We report measurements of the spin susceptibility in dilute two-dimensional electrons confined to a 45$\AA$ wide AlAs quantum well. The electrons in this well occupy an out-of-plane conduction-band valley, rendering a system similar to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Vakili , Y. P. Shkolnikov , E. Tutuc , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan

The effect of spin-orbit interaction was studied in a high-quality $p$-AlGaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs structure with a square quantum well using acoustic methods. The structure grown on a GaAs (100) substrate was symmetrically doped with carbon on both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Molecular spin qubits are promising candidates for quantum technologies, but their performance is limited by decoherence arising from diverse mechanisms. The complexity of the environment makes it challenging to identify the main source of…

We use time-resolved Kerr rotation to demonstrate the optical and electronic tuning of both the electronic and local moment (Mn) spin dynamics in electrically gated parabolic quantum wells derived from II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductors.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. C. Myers , K. C. Ku , X. Li , N. Samarth , D. D. Awschalom

We have studied spin dephasing and spin diffusion in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system, embedded in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well grown in the [110] direction, by a two-beam Hanle experiment. For very low excitation density, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 R. Völkl , M. Griesbeck , S. A. Tarasenko , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , C. Schüller , T. Korn

The versatile potential of lead halide perovskites and two-dimensional materials is merged in the Ruddlesen-Popper perovskites having outstanding optical properties. Here, the coherent spin dynamics in Ruddlesen-Popper (PEA)$_2$PbI$_4$…

We present a microscopic analysis of electron spin dynamics in the presence of an external magnetic field for non-centrosymmetric semiconductors in which the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-orbit interaction is the dominant spin relaxation mechanism.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Vadim I. Puller , Lev G. Mourokh , Anatoly Yu. Smirnov , Norman J. M. Horing

We propose a scheme to manipulate the spin coherence in vertically coupled GaAs double quantum dots. Up to {\em ten} orders of magnitude variation of the spin relaxation and {\em two} orders of magnitude variation of the spin dephasing can…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-19 Y. Y. Wang , M. W. Wu

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

Spin kinetics in $n$-type InAs quantum wells under intense terahertz laser fields is investigated by developing fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equations via the Floquet-Markov theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function approach,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-08 J. H. Jiang , M. W. Wu , Y. Zhou

Spin relaxation in a quantum Hall ferromagnet, where filling is $\nu=1, 1/3, 1/5,...$, can be considered in terms of spin wave annihilation/creation processes. Hyperfine coupling with the nuclei of the GaAs matrix provides spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-30 S. Dickmann , T. Ziman