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We investigate how spins relax in intrinsic graphene. The spin-orbit coupling arises from the band structure and is enhanced by ripples. The orbital motion is influenced by scattering centers and ripple-induced gauge fields. Spin relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Huertas-Hernando , F. Guinea , A. Brataas

Effect of magnetic field on electron spin relaxation in quantum wells is studied theoretically. We have shown that Larmor effect and cyclotron motion of carriers can either jointly suppress D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation or compensate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. M. Glazov

The D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism, intimately related to the spin splitting of the electronic states, usually dominates the spin relaxation in zinc blende semiconductor quantum structures. Previously it has been formulated for the two limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Kainz , U. Rossler , R. Winkler

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

We report a large and unexpected suppression of the free electron spin relaxation in lightly-doped n-GaAs bulk crystals. The spin relaxation rate shows weak mobility dependence and saturates at a level 30 times less then that predicted by…

We investigate the spin relaxation limited by the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism in $n$-type (111) GaAs quantum wells, by means of the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. In (111) GaAs quantum wells, the in-plane effective magnetic field from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 B. Y. Sun , P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

We study electron spin relaxation in one-dimensional structures of finite length in the presence of Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit coupling and boundary spin relaxation. Using a spin kinetic equation approach, we formulate boundary conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 V. A. Slipko , A. A. Hayeva , Y. V. Pershin

We study the spin-relaxation time in materials where a large spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is present which breaks the spatial inversion symmetry. Such a spin-orbit coupling is realized in zincblende structures and heterostructures with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-23 Lénárd Szolnoki , Annamária Kiss , Balázs Dóra , Ferenc Simon

The longitudinal spin relaxation time, T1, in a Si/SiGe quantum well is determined from the saturation of the ESR signal. We find values of a few microseconds. Investigations of T1 as a function of Fermi energy, concentration of scattering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wilamowski , W. Jantsch

The electron spin dynamics in multilayer GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells, containing high-mobility dense two-dimensional electron gases, have been studied using time-resolved Kerr rotation and resonant spin amplification techniques. The electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 S. Ullah , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

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

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

Intrinsic electron spin relaxation due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism is studied in monolayer Molybdenum Disulphide. An intervalley in-plane spin relaxation channel is revealed due to the opposite effective magnetic fields perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 L. Wang , M. W. Wu

Low-temperature electron spin relaxation is studied by the optical orientation method in bulk n-GaAs with donor concentrations from 10^14 cm^{-3} to 5x10^17 cm^{-3}. A peculiarity related to the metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) is…

The influence of temperature and transport conditions on the electron spin relaxation in lightly doped n-type GaAs semiconductors is investigated. A Monte Carlo approach is used to simulate electron transport, including the evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-20 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo

Spin-relaxation is conventionally discussed using two different approaches for materials with and without inversion symmetry. The former is known as the Elliott-Yafet (EY) theory and for the latter the D'yakonov-Perel' (DP) theory applies,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 L. Szolnoki , B. Dora , A. Kiss , J. Fabian , F. Simon

Temperature and carrier density dependent spin dynamics for GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (QWs) with different structural symmetry has been studied by using time-resolved Kerr rotation technique. The spin relaxation time is measured to be much…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. F. Han , Y. G. Zhu , X. H. Zhang , P. H. Tan , H. Q. Ni , Z. C. Niu

Electron spin relaxation due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism is investigated in bilayer graphene with only the lowest conduction band being relevant. The spin-orbit coupling is constructed from the symmetry group analysis with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 L. Wang , M. W. Wu

We simulate spin polarized transport of electrons along a silicon nanowire and along a silicon two dimensional channel. Spin density matrix calculations are used along with the semi-classical Monte Carlo approach to model spin evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 Ashish Kumar , Bahniman Ghosh

We study spin relaxation in n-type bulk GaAs, due to the Dyakonov--Perel mechanism, using ensemble Monte Carlo methods. Our results confirm that spin relaxation time increases with the electronic density in the regime of moderate electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 Gionni Marchetti , Matthew Hodgson , James McHugh , Roy Chantrell , Irene D'Amico