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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 2009-11-11 Sandipan Pramanik , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Marc Cahay

The spin dynamics and spin relaxation of itinerant electrons in quantum wires with spin-orbit coupling is reviewed. We give an introduction to spin dynamics, and review spin-orbit coupling mechanisms in semiconductors. The spin diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Paul Wenk , Stefan Kettemann

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

We numerically study spin transport and nonequilibrium spin-density profiles in a clean one-dimensional spin-chain with long-range interactions, decaying as a power-law,$r^{-\alpha}$ with distance. We find two distinct regimes of transport:…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-27 Benedikt Kloss , Yevgeny Bar Lev

We study the relaxation of a spin density injected into a two-dimensional electron system with generic spin-orbit interactions. Our model includes the Rashba as well as linear and cubic Dresselhaus terms. We explicitly derive a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

A spin transport model is employed to study the effects of spin dephasing induced by diffusion-driven transit-time uncertainty through semiconductor spintronic devices where drift is the dominant transport mechanism. It is found that in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Ian Appelbaum

Spin transport electronics - spintronics - focuses on utilizing electron spin as a state variable for quantum and classical information processing and storage. Some insulating materials, such as diamond, offer defect centers whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 J. Cardellino , N. Scozzaro , M. R. Herman , A. J. Berger , C. Zhang , K. C. Fong , C. Jayaprakash , D. V. Pelekhov , P. C. Hammel

We develop a drift-diffusion equation that describes electron spin polarization density in two-dimensional electron systems. In our approach, superpositions of spin-up and spin-down states are taken into account, what distinguishes our…

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

We study the transport and equilibration properties of a classical Heisenberg chain, whose couplings are random variables drawn from a one-parameter family of power-law distributions. The absence of a scale in the couplings makes the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-09 Adam J. McRoberts , Federico Balducci , Roderich Moessner , Antonello Scardicchio

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

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

We consider a quasiclassical model that allows us to simulate the process of spin diffusion and relaxation in the presence of a highly nonuniform magnetic field. The energy of the slow relaxing spins flows to the fast relaxing spins due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 G. P. Berman , B. M. Chernobrod , V. N. Gorshkov , V. I. Tsifrinovich

We construct a spin-drift-diffusion model to describe spin-polarized electron transport in zincblende semiconductors in the presence of magnetic fields, electric fields, and off-diagonal strain. We present predictions of the model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hruska , S. Kos , S. A. Crooker , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

We use semiclassical Monte Carlo approach along with spin density matrix calculations to model spin polarized electron transport. The model is applied to germanium nanowires and germanium two dimensional channels to study and compare spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 Ashish Kumar , Bahniman Ghosh

In inversion asymmetric semiconductors, spin-orbit interactions give rise to very effective relaxation mechanisms of the electron spin. Recent work, based on the dimensionally constrained D'yakonov Perel' mechanism, describes increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alexander W. Holleitner

We investigate electron spin dynamics in narrow two-dimensional n-InGaAs channels as a function of the channel width. The spin relaxation times increase with decreasing channel width, in accordance with recent theoretical predictions based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Holleitner , V. Sih , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We report the systematic studies of spin current transport and relaxation mechanism in highly doped organic polymer film. In this study, we have determined spin diffusion length (SDL), spin lifetime, and spin diffusion constant by using…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-12 Motoi Kimata , Daisuke Nozaki , Yasuhiro Niimi , Hiroyuki Tajima , YoshiChika Otani

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

We study high-field spin transport of electrons in a quasi one-dimensional channel of a $GaAs$ gate controlled spin interferometer (SPINFET) using a semiclassical formalism (spin density matrix evolution coupled with Boltzmann transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 S. Pramanik , S. bandyopadhyay , M. Cahay

Spin relaxation was studied in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in a wide GaAs quantum well. Recently, the control of the spin relaxation anisotropy by diffusive motion was first shown in D. Iizasa et al., arXiv:2006.08253 (2020).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 F. G. G. Hernandez , G. J. Ferreira , M. Luengo-Kovac , V. Sih , N. M. Kawahala , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov
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