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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

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Chwiej

Utilizing time-resolved Kerr rotation techniques, we have investigated the spin dynamics of a high mobility, low density two dimensional electron gas in a GaAs/Al0:35Ga0:65As heterostructure in dependence on temperature from 1.5 K to 30 K.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 X. Z. Ruan , H. H. Luo , Yang Ji , Z. Y. Xu , V. Umansky

Using time-resolved Faraday rotation, the drift-induced spin-orbit Field of a two-dimensional electron gas in an InGaAs quantum well is measured. Including measurements of the electron mobility, the Dresselhaus and Rashba coefficients are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-06 M. Studer , S. Schön , K. Ensslin , G. Salis

Spin-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET) with a high-mobility III-V channel are studied using self-consistent quantum corrected ensemble Monte Carlo device simulations of charge and spin transport. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 B Thorpe , K Kalna , S Schirmer

The hyperfine coupling between the spin of a charge carrier and the nuclear spin bath is a predominant channel for the carrier spin relaxation in many organic semiconductors. We theoretically investigate the hyperfine-induced spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 V. V. Mkhitaryan , V. V. Dobrovitski

Using long-distance lateral devices, spin transport near the interface of Si and its native oxide (SiO2) is studied by spin-valve measurements in an in-plane magnetic field and spin precession measurements in a perpendicular magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Hyuk-Jae Jang , Ian Appelbaum

We have theoretically studied the temporal fluctuations and the resulting kinetic noise in the average spin polarization of an electron ensemble drifting in a quantum wire under a high electric field. Electrons are initially injected in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Pramanik , S. Bandyopadhyay

Hyperpolarized nanoparticles (NPs) offer high polarization levels with room temperature relaxation times exceeding half an hour. In this work, we demonstrate that the achievable hyperpolarization enhancement and relaxation (decay) time at…

The changes of the spin depolarization length in zinc-blende semiconductors when an external component of correlated noise is added to a static driving electric field are analyzed for different values of field strength, noise amplitude and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo

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…

We introduce a computational framework for first-principles density matrix transport within the Wigner function formalism to predict transport of quantum-mechanical degrees of freedom such as spin over long time and length scales. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Mayada Fadel , Joshua Quinton , Mani Chandra , Mayank Gupta , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

We have analysed spin relaxation behaviour of various II-VI semiconductors for nanowire structure and 2-D channel by simulating spin polarized transport through a semi-classical approach. Monte Carlo simulation method has been applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Ashutosh Sharma , Swetali Nimje , Bahniman Ghosh

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

Spin dephasing by the Dyakonov-Perel mechanism in metallic films deposited on insulating substrates is revealed, and quantitatively examined by means of density functional calculations combined with a kinetic equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Nguyen H. Long , Phivos Mavropoulos , David S. G. Bauer , Bernd Zimmermann , Yuriy Mokrousov , Stefan Blügel

We have investigated spatio-temporal kinetics of electron spin polarization in semiconductor narrow 2D strip and explored the ability to manipulate spin relaxation. Information about spin of the conduction electrons and mechanisms of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 A. A. Kiselev , K. W. Kim

A semiclassical Monte Carlo approach is adopted to study the multivalley spin depolarization of drifting electrons in a doped n-type GaAs bulk semiconductor, in a wide range of lattice temperature ($40<T_L<300$ K) and doping density…

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

The wide bandgap semiconductor ZnO is interesting for spintronic applications because of its small spin-orbit coupling implying a large spin coherence length. Utilizing vertical spin valve devices with ferromagnetic electrodes…

We describe the transport properties of a 5 $\mu$m long one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire. Reduction of conductance plateaux due to the introduction of weakly disorder scattering are observed. In an in-plane magnetic field, we observe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -T. Liang , M. Pepper , M. Y. Simmons , C. G. Smith , D. A. Ritchie

We perform a many-body study of the spin dephasing due to the D'yakonov-Perel' effect in n-typed GaAs (100) quantum wells for high temperatures ($\geq 120$ K) under moderate magnetic fields in the Voigt configuration by constructing and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu