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We report on transport experiments through high-mobility gate-tunable undoped InSb QWs. Due to the elimination of any Si modulation doping, the gate-defined two-dimensional electron gases in the quantum wells display a significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Zijin Lei , Erik Cheah , Km Rubi , Maurice E. Bal , Christoph Adam , Rüdiger Schott , Uli Zeitler , Werner Wegscheider , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a spin-orbit interaction to a long-wave-length electromagnetic excitation. We observe that the transverse electric field creates spin polarization perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Ivar Martin

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 relaxation in undoped quasi-spherical CdS quantum dots at zero magnetic fields is investigated using time- and polarization-resolved transient absorption measurements. Unlike in previous studies of these systems, the measured signals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-27 P. Nahálková , D. Sprinzl , P. Malý , P. Němec , V. N. Gladilin , J. T. Devreese

Magnetoluminescence of spatially indirect dipolar excitons collected in 25 nm GaAs/AlGaAs single quantum well within a lateral potential trap has been studied in perpendicular magnetic field in Faraday geometry. The paramagnetic spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. V. Gorbunov , V. B. Timofeev

Measurements of spin dynamics of electrons in a degenerate two dimensional electron gas, where the Dyakonov-Perel mechanism is dominant, have been used to investigate the electron scattering time (tp*) as a function of energy near the Fermi…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-11 W. J. H. Leylanda , R. T. Harley , M. Henini , A. J. Shields , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

In this contribution, we investigated the spin coherence of high-mobility dense two-dimensional electron gases confined in multilayer systems. The dynamics of optically-induced spin polarization was experimentally studied employing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 S. Ullah , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

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

We have measured dispersions of spin-flip waves and spin-flip single-particle excitations of a spin polarized two-dimensional electron gas in a CdMnTe quantum well using resonant Raman scattering. We find the energy of the spin-flip wave to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Cynthia Aku-Leh , Florent Perez , Bernard Jusserand , David Richards , Grzegorz Karczewski

Indirect excitons in coupled quantum wells are long-living quasi-particles, explored in the studies of collective quantum states. We demonstrate, that despite the extremely low oscillator strength, their spin and population dynamics can by…

The spin relaxation of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) formed in a symmetric quantum well is studied theoretically when the quantum well is parallel to the (110) plane of the zinc-blende structure, the spin polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 Hiroshi Akera , Hidekatsu Suzuura , Yoshiyuki Egami

We demonstrate theoretically that spin dynamics of electrons injected into a GaAs semiconductor structure through a Schottky barrier possesses strong non-equilibrium features. Electrons injected are redistributed quickly among several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Semion Saikin , Min Shen , Ming-Cheng Cheng

We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

A novel spin-spin coupling mechanism that occurs during the transport of spin-polarized minority electrons in semiconductors is described. Unlike the Coulomb spin drag, this coupling arises from the ambipolar electric field which is created…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 F. Cadiz , D. Paget , A. C. H. Rowe , S. Arscott

We explain the spin segregation seen at Duke in a two-component gas of 6Li [Du, Luo, Clancy and Thomas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101,150401 (2008)] as a mean-field effect describable via a collisionless Boltzmann equation. As seen in experiments,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-06 Stefan S. Natu , Erich J. Mueller

We investigate the spin dynamics of excitons interacting with acoustic phonons in quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum disks by employing a multiband model based on the $4\times4$ Luttinger Hamiltonian. We also use the Bir-Pikus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Thilagam , M. A. Lohe

We investigate phonon-induced spin and charge relaxation mediated by spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions for a single electron confined within a double quantum dot. A simple toy model incorporating both direct decay to the ground state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-04 V. Srinivasa , K. C. Nowack , M. Shafiei , L. M. K. Vandersypen , J. M. Taylor

We investigate exciton spin memory in individual InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots via optical alignment and conversion of exciton polarization in a magnetic field. Quasiresonant phonon-assisted excitation is successfully employed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Kowalik , O. Krebs , A. Lemaître , J. A. Gaj , P. Voisin

A global quantitative picture of the phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in GaAs double quantum dots is presented using highly accurate numerical calculations. Wide regimes of interdot coupling, magnetic field magnitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Fabio Baruffa , Jaroslav Fabian

We show that pure spin Hall current, flowing out of a four-terminal phase-coherent two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) within inversion asymmetric semiconductor heterostructure, contains contributions from both the extrinsic mechanisms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo