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The carrier spin coherence in a p-doped GaAs/(Al,Ga)As quantum well with a diluted hole gas has been studied by picosecond pump-probe Kerr rotation with an in-plane magnetic field. For resonant optical excitation of the positively charged…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Syperek , D. R. Yakovlev , A. Greilich , J. Misiewicz , M. Bayer , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

We consider theoretically the relaxation of electron spin component parallel to the growth direction in multiple (110) GaAs quantum wells. The sources of spin relaxation are the random Rashba spin-orbit coupling due to the electric field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-10 M. M. Glazov , M. A. Semina , E. Ya. Sherman

We argue that in the ensemble Monte Carlo approach, the spin decoherence caused by electron-electron interactions in n-type bulk GaAs at room temperature, according to Dyakonov-Perel theory, is mainly induced by the electron density while…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-29 Gionni Marchetti

We investigate the spin dynamics of high-mobility two-dimensional electrons in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells grown along the $[001]$ and $[110]$ directions by time-resolved Faraday rotation at low temperatures. In measurements on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 M. Griesbeck , M. M. Glazov , T. Korn , E. Ya. Sherman , D. Waller , C. Reichl , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , C. Schüller

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

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

Using one of the methods of quantum nonequilibrium statistical physics we have investigated the spin transport transverse to the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator interface in hybrid nanostructures. An approximation of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

Spatiotemporal spin dynamics under spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a (001) GaAs two-dimensional electron gas using magneto-optical Kerr rotation microscopy. Spin polarized electrons are diffused away from the excited position,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Daisuke Iizasa , Asuka Aoki , Takahito Saito , Junsaku Nitta , Gian Salis , Makoto Kohda

Spin dynamics of two-dimensional electron gas confined in an asymmetrical quantum well is studied theoretically in the regime where the scattering frequency is comparable with the spin precession frequency due to the conduction band spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-01 M. M. Glazov

The theory of spin relaxation of conduction electrons is developed for zinc-blende-type quantum wells grown on (110)-oriented substrate. It is shown that, in asymmetric structures, the relaxation of electron spin initially oriented along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. A. Tarasenko

We provide a microscopic theory for the Doppler velocimetry of spin propagation in the presence of spatial inhomogeneity, driving electric field and the spin orbit coupling in semiconductor quantum wells in a wide range of temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

We describe measurements of spin dynamics in the two-dimensional electron gas in GaAs/GaAlAs quantum wells. Optical techniques, including transient spin-grating spectroscopy, are used to probe the relaxation rates of spin polarization waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. P. Weber , J. Orenstein , B. Andrei Bernevig , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Jason Stephens , D. D. Awschalom

The spin diffusion concept provides a classical description of a purely quantum-mechanical evolution in inhomogeneously polarized many-body systems such as nuclear spin lattices. The central spin of a localized electron alters nuclear spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Peter Millington-Hotze , Santanu Manna , Saimon F. Covre da Silva , Armando Rastelli , Evgeny A. Chekhovich

We have studied spin dephasing in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system (2DES), confined in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well grown in the [110] direction, using the resonant spin amplification (RSA) technique. From the characteristic…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Griesbeck , M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , C. Schüller , T. Korn

Spin kinetics in $n$-type InAs quantum wells under intense terahertz laser fields is investigated by developing fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equations via the Floquet-Markov theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function approach,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-08 J. H. Jiang , M. W. Wu , Y. Zhou

We investigate the spin relaxation limited by the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism in $n$-type (111) GaAs quantum wells, by means of the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. In (111) GaAs quantum wells, the in-plane effective magnetic field from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 B. Y. Sun , P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

Aiming at the optimization of the spin diffusion length in (001) GaAs quantum wells, we explore the effect of the anisotropy of the spin-orbit coupling on the competition between the Rashba and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings by…

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

We investigate the steady-state spin diffusion for ultracold spin-orbit coupled $^{40}$K gas by the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach both analytically and numerically. Four configurations, i.e., the spin diffusions along two specific…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-08 T. Yu , M. W. Wu

The evolution of the electron spin dynamics as consequence of carrier delocalization in $n$-type GaAs is investigated by the recently developed extended pump-probe Kerr/Faraday rotation spectroscopy. We find that isolated electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 V. V. Belykh , K. V. Kavokin , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

We develop a semiclassical kinetic theory for electron spin relaxation in semiconductors. Our approach accounts for elastic as well as inelastic scattering and treats Elliott-Yafet and motional-narrowing processes, such as D'yakonov-Perel'…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Franz X. Bronold , Avadh Saxena , Darryl L. Smith