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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…

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We investigate theoretically the D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation time by solving the eight-band Kane model and Poisson equation self-consistently. Our results show distinct behavior with the single-band model due to the anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 Jun Li , Kai Chang , F. M. Peeters

Optical pump-probe measurements of spin-dynamics at temperatures down to 1.5K are described for a series of (001)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well samples containing high mobility two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs). For well widths…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 W. J. H. Leyland , R. T. Harley , M. Henini , D. Taylor , A. J. Shields , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

Electron spin relaxation in paramagnetic Ga(Mn)As quantum wells is studied via the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach where all the scatterings, such as the electron-impurity, electron-phonon, electron-electron Coulomb,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-02 J. H. Jiang , Y. Zhou , T. Korn , C. Schüller , M. W. Wu

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 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

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 investigate the spin relaxation due to the random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in symmetric GaAs (110) quantum wells from the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. All relevant scatterings, such as the electron-impurity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We study the electron spin relaxation in intrinsic and $p$-type (001) GaAs quantum wells by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations. All the relevant scatterings are explicitly included, especially the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-21 J. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We combine extensive precision measurements of the optically detected spin dynamics and magneto-transport measurements in a contiguous set of n-doped bulk GaAs structures in order to unambiguously unravel the intriguing but complex…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 J. G. Lonnemann , E. P. Rugeramigabo , M. Oestreich , J. Hübner

The D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation induced by the spin-orbit interaction is examined in disordered two-dimensional electron gas. It is shown that, because of the electron-electron interactions different spin relaxation rates can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-11-16 Alexander Punnoose , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

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

Hole spin relaxation in $p$-type (111) GaAs quantum wells is investigated in the case with only the lowest hole subband, which is heavy-hole like in (111) GaAs/AlAs and light-hole like in (111) GaAs/InP quantum wells, being relevant. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 L. Wang , M. W. Wu

Electron spin dynamics is investigated in n-i-n GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum wells. The electron spin dephasing time is measured as a function of an external electrical bias under resonant excitation of the 1sHH intrawell exciton using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. V. Larionov , L. E. Golub

Dynamic response of two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction is studied theoretically on the basis of quantum kinetic equation, taking into account elastic scattering of electrons. The spin polarization and spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 O. E. Raichev

We develop a non-perturbative numerical method to study tunneling of a single electron through an Aharonov-Bohm ring where several strongly interacting electrons are bound. Inelastic processes and spin-flip scattering are taken into…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 R. Zitko , J. Bonca

We have set up a set of many-body kinetic Bloch equations with spacial inhomogeneity. We reexamined the widely adopted quasi-independent electron model and showed the inadequacy of this model in studying the spin transport. We further…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

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

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