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We derive the transport equations for two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction and short-range spin-independent disorder. In the limit of slow spatial variations of the electron distribution we obtain coupled diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko , A. V. Shytov , B. I. Halperin

We study the spin dynamics in the presence of impurity and electron-electron (e-e) scattering in a III-V semiconductor quantum well with arbitrary spin-orbit coupling (SOC) strength and symmetry at finite temperature. We derive the coupled…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-11 Xin Liu , Jairo Sinova

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

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling to a microwave excitation. We generalize the results of [A. Shnirman and I. Martin, Europhys. Lett. 78, 27001…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Alexander Shnirman

In this work, the spin relaxation accompanying the spin diffusion in symmetric Si/SiGe quantum wells without the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-relaxation mechanism is calculated from a fully microscopic approach. The spin relaxation is caused by…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-07 P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

The classical drift diffusion (DD) model of spin transport treats spin relaxation via an empirical parameter known as the ``spin diffusion length''. According to this model, the ensemble averaged spin of electrons drifting and diffusing in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandipan Pramanik , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Marc Cahay

Electron spin diffusion is investigated in monolayer MoS$_2$ in the absence of external electric and magnetic fields. The electron-impurity scattering, which is shown to play a negligible role in spin relaxation in time domain in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 L. Wang , M. W. Wu

The classical drift diffusion (DD) model of spin transport treats spin relaxation via an empirical parameter known as the ``spin diffusion length''. According to this model, the ensemble averaged spin of electrons drifting and diffusing in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sandipan Pramanik , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Marc Cahay

We develop a microscopic theory of spin relaxation of a two-dimensional electron gas in quantum wells with anisotropic electron scattering. Both precessional and collision-dominated regimes of spin dynamics are studied. It is shown that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. V. Poshakinskiy , S. A. Tarasenko

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

We obtain the spin-orbit interaction and spin-charge coupled transport equations of a two-dimensional heavy hole gas under the influence of strain and anisotropy. We show that a simple two-band Hamiltonian can be used to describe the holes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vincent E. Sacksteder , B. Andrei Bernevig

We calculate the electrically induced spin accumulation in diffusive systems due to both Rashba (with strength $\alpha)$ and Dresselhaus (with strength $\beta)$ spin-orbit interaction. Using a diffusion equation approach we find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss , Matthias Scheid , Klaus Richter , Inanc Adagideli , Philippe Jacquod

The existence of global weak solutions to a coupled spin drift-diffusion and Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz system is proved. The equations are considered in a two-dimensional magnetic layer structure and are supplemented with Dirichlet-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Nicola Zamponi , Ansgar Jüngel

We derive boundary conditions for the coupled spin-charge diffusion equations at a transmitting interface between two-dimensional electron systems with different strengths of the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling $\alpha$, and an electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Bertrand I. Halperin , Alexey A. Kovalev , Arne Brataas

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

Spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a dual gated InAs/GaSb quantum well. Using an electric field the quantum well can be tuned between a single carrier regime with exclusively electrons as carriers and a two-carriers regime where…

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

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

The relative strengths of Rashba and Dresselhaus terms describing the spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor quantum well (QW) structures are extracted from photocurrent measurements on n-type InAs QWs containing a two-dimensional electron…

The theory of spin diffusion is extended to the case of spin lattice relaxation and spin diffusion in an inhomogeneous field in spin systems with non-equidistant energy spectrum. Two coupled equations describing the mutual relaxation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory B. Furman , Shaul D. Goren