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In graphene, out-of-plane (flexural) vibrations and static ripples imposed by the substrate relax the electron spin, intrinsically protected by mirror symmetry. We calculate the relaxation times in different scenarios, accounting for all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 I. M. Vicent , H. Ochoa , F. Guinea

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

Spin transport experiments in graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, indicate spin relaxation times that are significantly shorter than the theoretical predictions. We investigate experimentally whether these short spin relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Popinciuc , C. Józsa , P. J. Zomer , N. Tombros , A. Veligura , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

We show that the electric field-induced thermal asymmetry between the electron and lattice systems in pure silicon substantially impacts the identity of the dominant spin relaxation mechanism. Comparison of empirical results from…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-10 Jing Li , Lan Qing , Hanan Dery , Ian Appelbaum

We study high-field spin transport of electrons in a quasi one-dimensional channel of a $GaAs$ gate controlled spin interferometer (SPINFET) using a semiclassical formalism (spin density matrix evolution coupled with Boltzmann transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 S. Pramanik , S. bandyopadhyay , M. Cahay

The spin relaxation induced by the Elliott-Yafet mechanism and the extrinsic spin Hall conductivity due to the skew-scattering are investigated in 5d transition-metal ultrathin films with self-adatom impurities as scatterers. The values of…

A quantum spin hall insulator(QSHI) is manifested by its conducting edge channels that originate from the nontrivial topology of the insulating bulk states. Monolayer 1T'-WTe2 exhibits this quantized edge conductance in transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-25 Chenxiao Zhao , Mengli Hu , Jin Qin , Bing Xia , Canhua Liu , Shiyong Wang , Dandan Guan , Yaoyi Li , Hao Zheng , Junwei Liu , Jinfeng Jia

When topological insulators possess rotational symmetry their spin lifetime is tied to the scattering time. We show that in anisotropic TIs this tie can be broken and the spin lifetime can be very large. Two different mechanisms can obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-19 Vincent E. Sacksteder , Stefan Kettemann , QuanSheng Wu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

The spin diffusion/transport in $n$-type (001) GaAs quantum well at high temperatures ($\ge120$ K) is studied by setting up and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations together with the Poisson equation self-consistently. All…

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

We report the systematic studies of spin current transport and relaxation mechanism in highly doped organic polymer film. In this study, we have determined spin diffusion length (SDL), spin lifetime, and spin diffusion constant by using…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-12 Motoi Kimata , Daisuke Nozaki , Yasuhiro Niimi , Hiroyuki Tajima , YoshiChika Otani

A two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) exhibits the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, in which topologically protected spin-polarized conducting channels exist at the sample edges. Experimental signatures of the QSH effect have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Yanmeng Shi , Joshua Kahn , Ben Niu , Zaiyao Fei , Bosong Sun , Xinghan Cai , Brian A. Francisco , Di Wu , Zhi-Xun Shen , Xiaodong Xu , David H. Cobden , Yong-Tao Cui

The temperature dependence of the electron spin relaxation time in MgB2 is anomalous as it does not follow the temperature dependence of the resistivity above 150 K, it has a maximum around 400 K, and it decreases for higher temperatures.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-26 F. Simon , B. Dora , F. Muranyi , A. Janossy , S. Garaj , L. Forro , S. Bud'ko , C. Petrovic , P. C. Canfield

Since the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect the use of the intrinsic angular momentum of the electrons has opened up new spin based device concepts. The two channel model of spin-up and spin-down electrons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 F. K. Dejene , J. Flipse , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees

Recent experiments have demonstrated long spin lifetimes in uniformly n-doped quantum wells. The spin dynamics of exciton, localized, and conduction spins are important for understanding these systems. We explain experimental behavior by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-02 N. J. Harmon , W. O. Putikka , R. Joynt

Highly accurate numerical results of phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in silicon double quantum dots are presented. The relaxation, enabled by spin-orbit coupling and the nuclei of $^{29}$Si (natural or purified abundance), are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We measure the spin-resolved transport of dipolar excitons in a biased GaAs double quantum well structure. From these measurements we extract both spin lifetime and mobility of the excitons. We find that below a temperature of $4.8$K, there…

A high frequency (111.2-420 GHz) electron spin resonance study of the inter-layer (perpendicular) spin diffusion as a function of pressure and temperature is presented in the conducting phases of the layered organic compounds,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-24 Á. Antal , T. Fehér , E. Tátrai-Szekeres , F. Fülöp , B. Náfrádi , L. Forró , A. Jánossy

We experimentally study the electronic spin transport in hBN encapsulated single layer graphene nonlocal spin valves. The use of top and bottom gates allows us to control the carrier density and the electric field independently. The spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 M. H. D. Guimarães , P. J. Zomer , J. Ingla-Aynés , J. C. Brant , N. Tombros , B. J. van Wees

We experimentally demonstrate ultralong spin lifetimes of electrons in the one-dimensional (1D) quantum limit of semiconductor nanowires. Optically probing single wires of different diameters reveals an increase in the spin relaxation time…

We have studied spin dephasing in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system (2DES), confined in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well grown in the [110] direction, using the resonant spin amplification (RSA) technique. From the characteristic…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Griesbeck , M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , C. Schüller , T. Korn