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Injecting spins into a semiconductor channel and transforming the spin information into a significant electrical output signal is a long standing problem in spintronics. Actually, this is the prerequisite of several concepts of spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Fert , J. -M. George , H. Jaffres , R. Mattana

We develop a theory of spin relaxation in Zeeman-splitted superconducting films at low temperatures. A new mechanism of spin relaxation, specific only for Zeeman-splitted superconductors is proposed. It can explain the extremely high spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov

We present a theoretical analysis of spin relaxation, for a polarized gas of spin 1/2 particles undergoing restricted adiabatic diffusive motion within a container of arbitrary shape, due to magnetic field inhomogeneities of arbitrary form.

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-06 M. Guigue , R. Golub , G. Pignol , A. K. Petukhov

The paper emphasizes the property of stability for skew-evolution semiflows on Banach spaces, defined by means of evolution semiflows and evolution cocycles and which generalize the concept introduced by us in a previous paper. There are…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Codruta Stoica

A chapter contribution to book: "Handbook of Spin Transport and Magnetism", ed. by Evegeny Y. Tsymbal and Igor Zutic (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2011) http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439803776 .

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 J. Fabian , M. W. Wu

We describe a broadly-applicable theory of spin relaxation in materials with incoherent charge transport; examples include amorphous inorganic semiconductors, organic semiconductors, quantum dot arrays, and systems displaying…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-21 Nicholas J. Harmon , Michael E. Flatté

We report on a theoretical study of spin dynamics of an ensemble of spin-polarized electrons injected in a diffusive microchannel with linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We explore the dependence of the spin-precession and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Liviu P. Zarbo , Jairo Sinova , Irena Knezevic , J. Wunderlich , T. Jungwirth

The coherent spin dynamics of resident carriers, electrons and holes, in semiconductor quantum structures is studied by periodical optical excitation using short laser pulses and in an external magnetic field. The generation and dephasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 I. A. Yugova , M. M. Glazov , D. R. Yakovlev , A. A. Sokolova , M. Bayer

The influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the electron spin dynamics is investigated for a ballistic semiconductor quantum wire with a finite width. We monitor the spin evolution using the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We consider the relaxation of a spin qubit in a quantum dot propagating as a whole in a one-dimensional semiconductor with hyperfine coupling. We show that this motion leads to qualitatively new features in this process compared to static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 C. Echeverria-Arrondo , E. Ya. Sherman

We investigate the coupling of the spin angular momentum of light beams with elliptical polarization to the spin degree of freedom of free electrons. It is shown that this coupling, which is of similar origin as the well-known spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Heiko Bauke , Sven Ahrens , Rainer Grobe

Spin related phenomena in quantum nanostructures have attracted recently much interest due to fast growing field of spintronics. In particular complex nanostructures are important as they provide a versatile system to manipulate spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 M. Kurpas , B. Kędzierska , I. Janus-Zygmunt , M. M. Maśka , E. Zipper

We probe the spin dynamics in a thin magnetic film at ferromagnetic resonance by nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation at the 14.4 keV resonance of $^{57}$Fe. The precession of the magnetization leads to an apparent reduction…

We utilize the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach to investigate the steady-state spin diffusion in $n$-type (111) GaAs quantum wells, where the in-plane components of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling term and the Rashba term can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 B. Y. Sun , K. Shen

We review and summarize recent theoretical and experimental work on electron spin dynamics in quantum dots and related nanostructures due to hyperfine interaction with surrounding nuclear spins. This topic is of particular interest with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 John Schliemann , Alexander Khaetskii , Daniel Loss

The electronic spin precession in semiconductor dots is strongly affected by the spin-orbit coupling. We present a theory of the electronic spin resonance at low magnetic fields that predicts a strong dependence on the dot occupation, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra , Enrico Lipparini

In a superconductor coupled with a ferromagnetic metal, spin and charge imbalances can be induced by injecting spin-polarized electron current from the ferromagnetic metal. We theoretically study a nonequilibrium distribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yositake Takane

The mechanisms for spin relaxation in semiconductors are reviewed, and the mechanism prevalent in p-doped semiconductors, namely spin relaxation due to the electron-hole exchange interaction, is presented in some depth. It is shown that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Ohms , K. Hiebbner , H. C. Schneider , M. Aeschlimann

We describe the spin and charge dynamics of the system of two electrons confined within a double quantum dot defined in a quantum wire. The spin dynamics is driven by the electron motion in presence of the spin-orbit interaction and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 J. Leśnicki , B. Szafran

A system of drift-diffusion equations with electric field under Dirichlet boundary conditions is analyzed. The system of strongly coupled parabolic equations for particle density and spin density vector describes the spin-polarized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Nicola Zamponi