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A theory for longitudinal (T1) and transverse (T2) electron spin coherence times in zincblende semiconductor quantum wells is developed based on a non-perturbative nanostructure model solved in a fourteen-band restricted basis set.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne H. Lau , J. T. Olesberg , Michael E. Flatte'

The subbands of weakly coupled double-layer two dimensional electron gas systems consist of narrowly spaced pairs whose corresponding wavefunctions are symmetric and antisymmetric combinations of isolated layer subband wavefunctions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Swierkowski , A. H. MacDonald

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

We report measurements of the spin susceptibility in dilute two-dimensional electrons confined to a 45$\AA$ wide AlAs quantum well. The electrons in this well occupy an out-of-plane conduction-band valley, rendering a system similar to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Vakili , Y. P. Shkolnikov , E. Tutuc , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan

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

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

We investigate spin polarized electron transport in ultra-thin Si-Core/Ge-Shell and Ge-Core/Si-Shell nanowire system using semi-classical Monte Carlo simulation method. Depolarization of electron's spin occurs in nanowire mainly due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Bhupesh Bishnoi , Bahniman Ghosh

We have studied the edge spin accumulation in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas formed in a symmetric well with two subbands. This study is strongly motivated by the recent experiment of Hernandez et al. [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 88},…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Alexander Khaetskii , J. Carlos Egues

To establish a correlation between the spin diffusion, the spin lifetime, and the electron density, we study, employing time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy, the spin polarization evolution in low-dimensional GaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 S. Anghel , A. V. Poshakinskiy , K. Schiller , G. Yusa , T. Mano , T. Noda , M. Betz

The spin relaxation of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) formed in a symmetric quantum well is studied theoretically when the quantum well is parallel to the (110) plane of the zinc-blende structure, the spin polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 Hiroshi Akera , Hidekatsu Suzuura , Yoshiyuki Egami

Low-temperature electron magnetotransport in single GaAs quantum wells with two populated subbands is studied at large filling factors. Magneto-inter-subband (MIS) and acoustic-phonon induced oscillations of the dissipative resistance are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. A. Bykov , A. V. Goran , S. A. Vitkalov

In inversion-asymmetric semiconductors, spin-orbit coupling induces a k-dependent spin splitting of valence and conduction bands, which is a well-known cause for spin decoherence in bulk and heterostructures. Manipulating nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. A. Ullrich , M. E. Flatte

Understanding the spin dephasing mechanism is of fundamental importance in all potential applications of the spin qubit. Here we demonstrate a spin dephasing mechanism in semiconductor quantum dot due to the $1/f$ charge noise. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Rui Li

We investigated the spin coherence of high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases confined in multilayer GaAs quantum wells. The dynamics of the spin polarization was optically studied using pump-probe techniques: time-resolved Kerr…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 S. Ullah , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

We investigate the spin relaxation and spin dephasing of $n$-type GaAs quantum wells. We obtain the spin relaxation time $T_1$, the spin dephasing time $T_2$ and the ensemble spin dephasing time $T_2^{\ast}$ by solving the full microscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Lü , J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu , I. C. da Cunha Lima

Slow magnetooscilations of the conductivity are observed in a 75 nm wide quantum well at heating of the two-dimensional electrons by a high-intensity surface acoustic wave. These magnetooscillations are caused by intersubband elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , M. O. Nestoklon , A. V. Suslov , D. Kamburov , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , L. E. Golub

Conduction electron spin lifetimes ($T_1$) and spin coherence times ($T_2$) are strongly modified in semiconductor quantum wells by electric fields. Quantitative calculations in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells at room temperature show roughly a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Wayne H. Lau , Michael E. Flatté

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

We calculate the dephasing time $\tau_{\phi}(B)$ of an electron in a two-dimensional quantum well with a Rashba spin-orbit interaction, spin-polarized by an arbitrarily large magnetic field parallel to the layer. $\tau_\phi (B)$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Marinescu

We employ a magnetocapacitance technique to study the spectrum of the soft two-subband (or double-layer) electron system in a parabolic quantum well with a narrow tunnel barrier in the centre. In this system unbalanced by gate depletion, at…