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We theoretically describe the phenomenon of non-adiabatic spin dynamics, which occurs in a gas cell filled by alkali vapor in presence of a strong alternating magnetic field and pump light. Steep increase of the spin polarization occurs if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 E. N. Popov , A. A. Gaidash , A. V. Kozubov , S. P. Voskoboynikov

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) leads to spin precession about a momentum-dependent spin-orbit field. In a diffusive two-dimensional (2D) electron gas, the spin orientation at a given spatial position depends on which trajectory the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 P. Altmann , M. Kohda , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , G. Salis

For the two-dimensional electron gas, the exact high-density limit of the correlation energy is evaluated here numerically for all values of the spin polarization. The result is spin-resolved into $\uparrow\uparrow$, $\uparrow\downarrow$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Seidl

We investigate the electron spin dephasing in the presence of spin phase recovering by a serried $\pi$-pulse sequence in $n$-type (001) GaAs quantum wells in a wide range of temperature and density regimes. Our numerical calculation is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-15 K. Shen , M. W. Wu

A novel spin orientation mechanism - dynamic electron spin polarization has been recently suggested in Phys. Rev. Lett. $\mathbf{125}$, 156801 (2020). It takes place for unpolarized optical excitation in weak magnetic fields of the order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. S. Shamirzaev , A. V. Shumilin , D. S. Smirnov , J. Rautert , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

We develop a microscopic theory of spin relaxation of a two-dimensional electron gas in quantum wells with anisotropic electron scattering. Both precessional and collision-dominated regimes of spin dynamics are studied. It is shown that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. V. Poshakinskiy , S. A. Tarasenko

We characterize the role of the spin-orbit coupling between electrons and the confining potential of the edge in nonequilibrium 2D homogeneous electronic gas. We derive a simple analytical result for the magnitude of the current induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-18 Peter Bokes , Frantisek Horvath

The theory of spin drift and diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases is developed in terms of a random walk model incorporating Rashba, linear and cubic Dresselhaus, and intersubband spin-orbit couplings. The additional subband degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Gerson J. Ferreira , Felix G. G. Hernandez , Patrick Altmann , Gian Salis

We develop an extended pump-probe Faraday rotation technique to study the submicrosecond electron spin dynamics with picosecond time resolution in a wide range of magnetic fields. The electron spin dephasing time $T_2^*$ and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 V. V. Belykh , E. Evers , D. R. Yakovlev , F. Fobbe , A. Greilich , M. Bayer

We introduce and solve a semi-classical random walk (RW) model that describes the dynamics of spin polarization waves in zinc-blende semiconductor quantum wells. We derive the dispersion relations for these waves, including the Rashba,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-31 Luyi Yang , J. Orenstein , Dung-Hai Lee

An experimental technique for the indirect manipulation and detection of electron spins entangled in two-dimensional magnetoexcitons has been developed. The kinetics of the spin relaxation has been investigated. Photoexcited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 L. V. Kulik , A. V. Gorbunov , A. S. Zhuravlev , V. B. Timofeev , S. Dickmann , I. V. Kukushkin

We consider a double quantum dot system with two embedded and non-aligned spin impurities to manipulate the magnitude and polarization of the electron spin density. The device is attached to semi-infinite one-dimensional leads which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gianluca Stefanucci , Enrico Perfetto , Michele Cini

We discuss methods for imaging the nonequilibrium spin polarization of electrons in Fe/GaAs spin transport devices. Both optically- and electrically-injected spin distributions are studied by scanning magneto-optical Kerr rotation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Crooker , M. Furis , X. Lou , D. L. Smith , C. Adelmann , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

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

We study the spin dynamics in charged quantum dots in the situation where the resident electron is coupled to only about 200 nuclear spins and where the electron spin splitting induced by the Overhauser field does not exceed markedly the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. H. Feng , I. A. Akimov , F. Henneberger

Conduction electrons are used to optically polarize, detect and manipulate nuclear spin in a (110) GaAs quantum well. Using optical Larmor magnetometry, we find that nuclear spin can be polarized along or against the applied magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Salis , D. T. Fuchs , J. M. Kikkawa , D. D. Awschalom , Y. Ohno , H. Ohno

Nonlinear spin systems exhibit rich and exotic dynamical phenomena, offering promising applications ranging from spin masers and time crystals to precision measurement. Recent theoretical work [T. Wang et al., Commun. Phys. 8, 41 (2025)]…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Xiaofan Wang , Haitao Lu , Hengyan Wang , Zhihuang Luo , Wenqiang Zheng

We derive approximate expressions for the static local field factors of a spin polarized two-dimensional electron gas which smoothly interpolate between their small- and large-wavevector asymptotic limits. For the unpolarized electron gas,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Juana Moreno , D. C. Marinescu

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

This paper presents a study of electron spin dynamics in bulk GaAs at low temperatures for elevated optical excitation conditions. Our time-resolved Faraday rotation measurements yield sub-nanosecond electron spin dephasing-times over a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Krauss , R. Bratschitsch , Z. Chen , S. T. Cundiff , H. C. Schneider