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We present an exact solution to the problem of the spin edge states in the presence of equal Bychkov-Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit fields in a two-dimensional electron system, restricted by a hard-wall confining potential and exposed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 S. M. Badalyan , J. Fabian

Space- and time-resolved measurements of spin drift and diffusion are performed on a GaAs-hosted two-dimensional electron gas. For spins where forward drift is compensated by backward diffusion, we find a precession frequency in absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 P. Altmann , F. G. G. Hernandez , G. J. Ferreira , M. Kohda , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , G. Salis

Spin transport was studied in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted in a wide GaAs quantum well occupying two subbands. Using space and time Kerr rotation microscopy to image drifting spin packets under an in-plane accelerating electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 N. M . Kawahala , F. C. D. Moraes , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

Based on the spinor Boltzmann equation, we obtain a temperature dependent thermal spin-orbit torque in terms of the local equilibrium distribution function in a two dimensional ferromagnet with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Chun Yi Xue , Ya Ru Wang , Zheng Chuan Wang

Time-resolved Kerr rotation measurements were performed in InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells nearby a doped Mn delta layer. Our magneto-optical results show a typical time evolution of the optically-oriented electron spin in the quantum well.…

Spatiotemporal spin dynamics under spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a (001) GaAs two-dimensional electron gas using magneto-optical Kerr rotation microscopy. Spin polarized electrons are diffused away from the excited position,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Daisuke Iizasa , Asuka Aoki , Takahito Saito , Junsaku Nitta , Gian Salis , Makoto Kohda

In the presence of Rashba-Dresselhaus coupling, strong spin-orbit interactions in liquid crystal optical cavities result in a distinctive spin-split entangled dispersion. Spin coherence between such modes give rise to an optical…

It is well known that the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in semiconductor two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) possesses both linear and cubic in momentum contributions. Nevertheless, the latter is usually neglected in most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 E. Santana-Suárez , F. Mireles

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 experimentally investigate the dynamics of a persistent spin helix in etched GaAs wire structures of 2 to 80 um width. Using magneto-optical Kerr rotation with high spatial resolution, we determine the lifetime of the spin helix. A few…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Altmann , M. P. Walser , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , G. Salis

Electron spin precession in nonuniform Rashba-Dresselhaus two-dimensional electron systems along arbitrary continuous paths is investigated. We derive an analytical formula to describe the spin vectors (expectation values of the injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang

The coupled kinetic equation for density and spin Wigner functions are derived including spin-orbit coupling, electric and magnetic field as well as selfconsistent Hartree meanfields suited for SU(2) transport. The interactions are assumed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-23 K. Morawetz

We study the relaxation of a spin density injected into a two-dimensional electron system with generic spin-orbit interactions. Our model includes the Rashba as well as linear and cubic Dresselhaus terms. We explicitly derive a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

A theory of spin manipulation of quasi-two-dimensional (2D) electrons by a time-dependent gate voltage applied to a quantum well is developed. The Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling mechanisms are shown to be rather efficient for…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Rashba , Al. L. Efros

A persistent spin helix (PSH) is a robust helical spin-density pattern arising in disordered 2D electron gases with Rashba $\alpha$ and Dresselhaus $\beta$ spin-orbit (SO) tuned couplings, i.e., $\alpha=\pm\beta$. Here we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 Jiyong Fu , Poliana H. Penteado , Marco O. Hachiya , Daniel Loss , J. Carlos Egues

Spin-dependent photon echoes in combination with pump-probe Kerr rotation are used to study the microscopic electron spin transport in a CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te quantum well in the hopping regime. We demonstrate that independent of the particular…

In this contribution, we investigated the spin coherence of high-mobility dense two-dimensional electron gases confined in multilayer systems. The dynamics of optically-induced spin polarization was experimentally studied employing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 S. Ullah , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

In this work, we present the analytical solution of the effective mass Pauli equation, with Rashba and linear Dresselhaus interactions, for an electron gas moving through a semiconductor quantum dot under a longitudinal electric field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 J. L. Cardoso

The spin orbit interaction plays a crucial role in diverse fields of condensed matter, including the investigation of Majorana fermions, topological insulators, quantum information and spintronics. In III V zinc blende semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 A. Sasaki , S. Nonaka , Y. Kunihashi , M. Kohda , T. Bauernfeind , T. Dollinger , K. Richter , J. Nitta

The spin dynamics of the strongly localized, donor-bound electrons in fluorine-doped ZnSe epilayers is studied by pump-probe Kerr rotation techniques. A method exploiting the spin inertia is developed and used to measure the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Heisterkamp , E. A. Zhukov , A. Greilich , D. R. Yakovlev , V. L. Korenev , A. Pawlis , M. Bayer