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We have studied the spin dynamics of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system in a GaAs/Al_{0.3}Ga_{0.7}As single quantum well by time-resolved Faraday rotation and time-resolved Kerr rotation in dependence on the initial degree of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 D. Stich , J. Zhou , T. Korn , R. Schulz , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , M. W. Wu , C. Schüller

In order to describe correctly the interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic spin-orbit mechanisms to the spin Hall effect, it is necessary to consider different sources of spin relaxation. We take into account the spin relaxation time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Roberto Raimondi , Peter Schwab

Silicon quantum dots are a leading approach for solid-state quantum bits. However, developing this technology is complicated by the multi-valley nature of silicon. Here we observe transport of individual electrons in a silicon CMOS-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Xiaojie Hao , Rusko Ruskov , Ming Xiao , Charles Tahan , HongWen Jiang

Two-level quantum systems with strong spin-orbit coupling allow for all-electrical qubit control and long-distance qubit coupling via microwave and phonon cavities, making them of particular interest for scalable quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 J. van der Heijden , T. Kobayashi , M. G. House , J. Salfi , S. Barraud , R. Lavieville , M. Y. Simmons , S. Rogge

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…

Spin splitting of conduction electron states has been analyzed for all possible point symmetries of SiGe quantum well structures. A particular attention is paid to removal of spin degeneracy caused by the rotoinversion asymmetry of a (001)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

We study spin polarized transport in silicon germanium nanowires using a semiclassical monte carlo approach. Spin depolarization in the channel is caused due to D'yakonov-Perel (DP) relaxation associated with Rashba spin orbit coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ashish Kumar , Bahniman Ghosh

We present the findings of the spin-dependent transport of the 2D holes in the p-type ultra-narrow self-assembled silicon quantum well (Si-QW) confined by the superconductor barriers on the n-type Si (100) surface. The Aharonov-Casher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. T. Bagraev , M. I. Bovt , W. Gehlhoff , O. N. Guimbitskaya , L. E. Klyachkin , A. M. Malyarenko , V. A. Mashkov , V. V. Romanov , S. A. Rykov

Phonon-induced orbital and spin relaxation rates of single electron states in lateral single and double quantum dots are obtained numerically for realistic materials parameters. The rates are calculated as a function of magnetic field and…

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

We study a one-dimensional helical system with random Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using renor- malization group methods, we derive a consistent set of flow equations governing the important con- trol parameters of the backscattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Florian Geissler , Francois Crépin , Björn Trauzettel

Spin splittings in III-V materials and heterostructures are of interest because of potential applications, mainly in spintronic devices. A necessary condition for the existence of these spin splittings is the absence of inversion symmetry.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel A Oliveira , Angus MacKinnon

Controlling the spin dynamics and spin lifetimes is one of the main challenges in spintronics. To this end, the study of the spin diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) shows that when the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 I. R. de Assis , R. Raimondi , G. J. Ferreira

We study the spin relaxation (SR) of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantized Hall regime and discuss the role of spatial inhomogeneity effects on the relaxation. The results are obtained for small filling factors ($\nu\ll 1$)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Dickmann

We estimate the spin relaxation rate due to spin-orbit coupling and acoustic phonon scattering in weakly-confined quantum dots with up to five interacting electrons. The Full Configuration Interaction approach is used to account for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan I. Climente , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Massimo Rontani , Elisa Molinari

Spin relaxation in-plane anisotropy is predicted for heterostructures based on zinc-blende semiconductors. It is shown that it manifests itself especially brightly if the two spin relaxation mechanisms (D'yakonov-Perel' and Rashba) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. S. Averkiev , L. E. Golub

We consider a single electron confined within a quantum wire in a system of two electrostatically-induced QDs defined by nearby gates. The time-varying electric field, of single GHz frequency, perpendicular to the quantum wire, is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 J. Pawłowski , G. Skowron , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect, primarily arising from structural-inversion asymmetry in periodic crystals, has garnered considerable attention due to its tunability and potential applications in spintronics. Its capability to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-24 Arjyama Bordoloi , A. C. Garcia-Castro , Zachary Romestan , Aldo H. Romero , Sobhit Singh

We suggest that electron spin resonance (ESR) experiment can be used as a probe of spinon excitations of hypothetical spin-liquid state of frustrated antiferromagnet in the presence of asymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-27 R. Glenn , O. A. Starykh , M. E. Raikh

Disorder scattering and spin-orbit coupling are together responsible for the diffusion and relaxation of spin-density in time-reversal invariant systems. We study spin-relaxation and diffusion in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Yasufumi Araki , Guru Khalsa , Allan H. MacDonald

We study evolution of electron spin coherence having non-homogeneous direction of spin polarization vector in semiconductor heterostructures. It is found that the electron spin relaxation time due to the D'yakonov-Perel' relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy V. Pershin