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Spin transport of indirect excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum wells was observed by measuring the spatially resolved circular polarization of the exciton emission. The exciton spin transport originates from the long spin relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 J. R. Leonard , Sen Yang , L. V. Butov , A. C. Gossard

Hole spin dephasing time due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism in $p$-type GaAs (100) quantum wells with well separated light-hole and heavy-hole bands is studied by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations. We…

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

In this work we investigate spin diffusion in InAs quantum wells with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling modulated by a gate voltage. The gate voltage dependence of the spin diffusion under different temperatures is studied with all the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 B. Y. Sun , P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

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

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

In this work, the spin relaxation accompanying the spin diffusion in symmetric Si/SiGe quantum wells without the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-relaxation mechanism is calculated from a fully microscopic approach. The spin relaxation is caused by…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-07 P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

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

This study explores the relationship between spin diffusion, spin lifetime, electron density and lateral spatial confinement in two-dimensional electron gases hosted in GaAs quantum wells. Using time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 B. W. Grobecker , A. V. Poshakinskiy , S. Anghel , T. Mano , G. Yusa , M. Betz

Spin transport of indirect excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum wells was observed by measuring the spatially resolved circular polarization of exciton emission. Exciton spin transport over several microns originates from a long spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 J. R. Leonard , Y. Kuznetsova , Sen Yang , L. V. Butov , T. Ostatnický , A. Kavokin , A. C. Gossard

A self-consistent treatment of the spin-Hall effect requires consideration of the spin-orbit coupling and electron-impurity scattering on equal footing. This is done here for the experimentally relevant case of a [110] GaAs quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale , M. Flatte

Utilizing time-resolved Kerr rotation techniques, we have investigated the spin dynamics of a high mobility, low density two dimensional electron gas in a GaAs/Al0:35Ga0:65As heterostructure in dependence on temperature from 1.5 K to 30 K.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 X. Z. Ruan , H. H. Luo , Yang Ji , Z. Y. Xu , V. Umansky

We present a detailed experimental and theoretical analysis of the optical orientation of electron spins in GaAs/AlAs quantum wells. Using time and polarization resolved photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy, the initial degree of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Pfalz , R. Winkler , T. Nowitzki , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , D. Haegele , M. Oestreich

We perform a study of the effect of the high in-plane electric field on the spin precession and spin dephasing due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism in $n$-type GaAs (100) quantum wells by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu , L. Jiang

Multi-subband effect on spin precession and spin dephasing in $n$-type GaAs quantum wells is studied with electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering explicitly included. The effects of temperature, well width and applied electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

We use optical transient-grating spectroscopy to measure spin diffusion of optically oriented electrons in bulk, semi-insulating GaAs(100). Trapping and recombination do not quickly deplete the photoexcited population. The spin diffusion…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-01 C. P. Weber , Craig A. Benko , Stanley C. Hiew

Based on a Monte Carlo method, we investigate the influence of transport conditions on the electron spin relaxation in GaAs. The decay of initial electron spin polarization is calculated as a function of distance under the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. A. Barry , A. A. Kiselev , K. W. Kim

Spin dynamics of optically excited electrons confined in asymmetric coupled quantum wells are investigated through time resolved Faraday rotation experiments. The inter-well coupling is shown to depend on applied electric field and barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Poggio , G. M. Steeves , R. C. Myers , N. P. Stern , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We apply the Wigner function formalism to derive drift-diffusion transport equations for spin-polarized electrons in a III-V semiconductor single quantum well. Electron spin dynamics is controlled by the linear in momentum spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Semion Saikin

The dynamic polarization of nuclear spins by photoexcited electrons is studied in a high quality GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well. We find a surprisingly high efficiency of the spin transfer from the electrons to the nuclei as reflected by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 R. W. Mocek , V. L. Korenev , M. Bayer , M. Kotur , R. I. Dzhioev , D. O. Tolmachev , G. Cascio , K. V. Kavokin , D. Suter

Electron spin diffusion is investigated in monolayer MoS$_2$ in the absence of external electric and magnetic fields. The electron-impurity scattering, which is shown to play a negligible role in spin relaxation in time domain in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 L. Wang , M. W. Wu