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GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots grown by in-situ droplet etching and nanohole infilling offer a combination of strong charge confinement, optical efficiency, and spatial symmetry required for polarization entanglement and spin-photon interface.…

We report an experimental study of one-dimensional (1D) electronic transport in an InSb semiconducting nanowire. Three bottom gates are used to locally deplete the nanowire creating a ballistic quantum point contact with only a few…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-12 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , Y. M. Niquet , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , D. Car , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , S. De Franceschi

An experiment to probe spin-polarized currents in the quantum Hall regime is suggested that takes advantage of the large Zeeman-splitting in the paramagnetic diluted magnetic semiconductor zinc manganese selenide (Zn$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$Se). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Herrle , Tobias Leeb , Guido Schollerer , Werner Wegscheider

We measure the statistical polarization of quadrupolar nuclear spins in a sub-micrometer (0.6 um^3) particle of GaAs using magnetic resonance force microscopy. The crystalline sample is cut out of a GaAs wafer and attached to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Fei Xue , D. P. Weber , P. Peddibhotla , M. Poggio

A comparison is made between the degree of spin polarization of electrons excited by one- and two-photon absorption of circularly polarized light in bulk zincblende semiconductors. Time- and polarization-resolved experiments in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. D. R. Bhat , P. Nemec , Y. Kerachian , H. M. van Driel , J. E. Sipe , Arthur L. Smirl

We present a comprehensive study of the low-field magnetoresistance in carbon doped p-type GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures aiming at the investigation of spin-orbit interaction effects. The following signatures of exceptionally strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 Boris Grbic , Renaud Leturcq , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck

The polarization produced by the relative displacement of the potentials trapping two spin species of a dilute Fermi gas with $N_\ua=N_\da$ is calculated at unitarity by assuming phase separation between the superfluid and a spin polarized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-18 A. Recati , I. Carusotto , C. Lobo , S. Stringari

We present a complete description of spin injection and detection in Fe/Al_xGa_{1-x}As/GaAs heterostructures for temperatures from 2 to 295 K. Measurements of the steady-state spin polarization in the semiconductor indicate three…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Adelmann , X. Lou , J. Strand , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

We have observed a large spin splitting between "spin" $+1$ and $-1$ heavy-hole excitons, having unbalanced populations, in undoped GaAs/AlAs quantum wells in the absence of any external magnetic field. Time-resolved photoluminescence…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 L. Vina , L. Munoz , E. Perez , J. Fernandez-Rossier , C. Tejedor , K. Ploog

Transport measurements in inverted InAs/GaSb quantum wells reveal a giant spin-orbit splitting of the energy bands close to the hybridization gap. The splitting results from the interplay of electron-hole mixing and spin-orbit coupling, and…

It is shown that spin Hall effect creates uniform spin polarization of electrons in semiconductor with a linear in the momentum spin splitting of conduction band. In turn, the profile of the non-uniform spin polarization accumulated at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Korenev

We investigate the electronic structure of Sr$_3$NiRhO$_6$, a quasi-one-dimensional spin chain system using \emph{ab initio} band structure calculations. Spin polarized calculations within GGA reveal that Ni and Rh have finite moments and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 S. K. Pandey , Kalobaran Maiti

Low-temperature magneto-photoluminescence studies of negatively charged excitons (X- trions) are reported for n-type modulation-doped ZnSe/Zn(Cd,Mn)Se quantum wells over a wide range of Fermi energy and spin-splitting. The magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Crooker , E. Johnston-Halperin , D. D. Awschalom , R. Knobel , N. Samarth

We have studied the edge spin accumulation in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas formed in a symmetric well with two subbands. This study is strongly motivated by the recent experiment of Hernandez et al. [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 88},…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Alexander Khaetskii , J. Carlos Egues

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

The magnetic field of complete spin polarization is calculated in a disorderless single-valley strongly-interacting 2D electron system. In the metallic region above the Wigner-Mott transition, non-equilibrium spin states are predicted,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-10 V. T. Dolgopolov , A. A. Shashkin

The controlled generation of localized spin densities is a key enabler of semiconductor spintronics In this work, we study spin Hall effect induced edge spin accumulation in a two-dimensional hole gas with strong spin orbit interactions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nomura , J. Wunderlich , Jairo Sinova , B. Kaestner , A. H. MacDonald , T. Jungwirth

We present low temperature magnetoconductivity measurements of a density-tunable and high mobility two-dimensional electron gas confined in the wide bandgap GaN/AlGaN system. We observed pronounced anti-localization minima in the low-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Schmult , M. J. Manfra , A. Punnoose , A. M. Sergent , K. W. Baldwin , R. J. Molnar

The effect of strong magnetic fields parallel to GaAs/AlGaAs interface on the subband structure of a 2D electron layer is ivestigated theoretically. The system with two levels occupied in zero magnetic field is considered and the magnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Jungwirth , L. Smrcka

We report our theoretically investigation on the spin-orbit coupling and $g$-factor of the $X$-valley in cubic GaN. We find that the spin-orbit coupling coefficient from $sp^3d^5s^\ast$ tight-binding model is 0.029\,eV$\cdot${\AA}, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-27 K. Shen , J. Y. Fu , M. W. Wu