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Theory of the electron spin relaxation in graphene on the SiO$_2$ substrate is developed. Charged impurities and polar optical surface phonons in the substrate induce an effective random Bychkov-Rashba-like spin-orbit coupling field which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Ertler , S. Konschuh , M. Gmitra , J. Fabian

How does an initially homogeneous spin-polarization in a confined two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling evolve in time? How does the relaxation time depend on system size? We study these questions for systems of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Schwab , Michael Dzierzawa , Cosimo Gorini , Roberto Raimondi

We consider two mechanisms of spin relaxation in disordered graphene. i) Spin relaxation due to curvature spin orbit coupling caused by ripples. ii) Spin relaxation due to the interaction of the electronic spin with localized magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Francisco Guinea , Arne Brataas

We report the measurement of extremely slow hole spin relaxation dynamics in small ensembles of self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots. Individual spin orientated holes are optically created in the lowest orbital state of each dot and read out…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Heiss , S. Schaeck , H. Huebl , M. Bichler , G. Abstreiter , J. J. Finley , D. V. Bulaev , Daniel Loss

Prospect of building spintronic devices in which electron spins store and transport information has attracted strong attention in recent years. Here we present some of our representative theoretical results on three fundamental aspects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

Recent experimental and theoretical studies have established that the spin-lattice relaxation rate, $1/T_1$, measured in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments is a site-sensitive probe for the electronic spectrum in the mixed state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk K. Morr

Non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly correlated systems constitutes a fascinating problem of condensed matter physics with many open questions. Here we investigate the relaxation dynamics of Landau-quantized electron system into spin-valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 T. Smoleński , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Kroner , A. Imamoğlu

We demonstrate a bipartition technique using a super-lattice architecture to access correlations between alternating planes of a mesoscopic array of spin-3 chromium atoms trapped in a 3D optical lattice. Using this method, we observe that…

Quantum limits of power dissipation in spintronic computing are estimated. A computing element composed of a single electron in a quantum dot is considered. Dynamics of its spin due to external magnetic field and interaction with adjacent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitri E. Nikonov , George I. Bourianoff , Paolo Gargini

The dynamic response of an interacting electron system is determined by an extension of the relaxation-time approximation forced to obey local conservation laws for number, momentum and energy. A consequence of these imposed constraints is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 G. S. Atwal , N. W. Ashcroft

A spin decoherence mechanism is proposed for localized electrons. The irregular phonon phase disturbances originated from phonon relaxation can influence electron spin precession with a net effect of spin phase decay. A quantitative…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim

Phonon-induced spin relaxation in coupled lateral quantum dots in the presence of spin-orbit coupling is calculated. The calculation for single dots is consistent with experiment. Spin relaxation in double dots at useful interdot couplings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We calculate the spin relaxation time of conduction electrons in n-doped bulk gallium arsenide. We consider the Elliot-Yafet spin-relaxation mechanism, driven by Coulombic-impurity and electron-electron scattering. We find that these two…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. I. Tamborenea , M. A. Kuroda , F. L. Bottesi

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

Entangled spin squeezed states generated via dipolar interactions in lattice models provide unique opportunities for quantum enhanced sensing and are now within reach of current experiments. A critical question in this context is which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 David Wellnitz , Mikhail Mamaev , Thomas Bilitewski , Ana Maria Rey

Physical systems reach thermal equilibrium through energy exchange with their environment, and for spins in solids the relevant environment is almost always the host lattice in which they sit. However, recent studies motivated by…

We experimentally demonstrate that spin dynamics and the phase diagram of spinor condensates can be conveniently tuned by a two-dimensional optical lattice. Spin population oscillations and a lattice-tuned separatrix in phase space are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-08 L. Zhao , J. Jiang , T. Tang , M. Webb , Y. Liu

We present measurements on nuclear spin relaxation probed by a single quantum dot in a high-mobility electron gas. Current passing through the dot leads to a spin transfer from the electronic to the nuclear spin system. Applying electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. Huettel , J. Weber , A. W. Holleitner , D. Weinmann , K. Eberl , R. H. Blick

We investigate nonequilibrium phenomena in magnetic nano-junctions using a numerical approach that combines classical spin dynamics with the hierarchical equations of motion technique for quantum dynamics of conduction electrons. Our focus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Rudolf Smorka , Michael Thoss , Martin Žonda

We study the relaxation mechanism of a highly excited carrier propagating in the antiferromagnetic background modeled by the $t$-$J$ Hamiltonian on a square lattice. We show that the relaxation consists of two distinct stages. The initial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-29 D. Golez , J. Bonca , M. Mierzejewski , L. Vidmar