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We investigate electron spin relaxation in GaAs in the proximity of a Fe/MgO layer using spin-resolved optical pump-probe spectroscopy, revealing a strong dependence of the spin relaxation time on the strength of an exchange-driven…

The formation of a novel spin-polarized 2D electron gas at the LaMnO$_3$ monolayer embedded in SrMnO$_3$ is predicted from the first-principles density-functional calculations. The La (d) electrons become confined in the direction normal to…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-10 B. R. K. Nanda , S. Satpathy

Quantum dots are arguably the best interface between matter spin qubits and flying photonic qubits. Using quantum dot devices to produce joint spin-photonic states requires the electronic spin qubits to be stored for extended times.…

Exciton spin and related optical polarization in self-assembled InAs/In$_{0.53}$Ga$_{0.23}$Al$_{0.24}$As/InP(001) quantum dashes emitting at 1.55 {\mu}m are investigated by means of polarization- and time-resolved photoluminescence, as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 M. Syperek , Ł. Dusanowski , M. Gawełczyk , G. Sęk , A. Somers , J. P. Reithmaier , S. Höfling , J. Misiewicz

We study spin dynamics of excitons confined in self-assembled CdSe quantum dots by means of optical orientation in magnetic field. At zero field the exciton emission from QDs populated via LO phonon-assisted absorption shows a circular…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Mackowski , T. Gurung , H. E. Jackson , L. M. Smith , J. K. Furdyna , M. Dobrowolska

We theoretically investigate the impact of excited states on the dynamics of the exciton ground state in diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum wells. Exploiting the giant Zeeman shift in these materials, an external magnetic field is used…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Florian Ungar , Moritz Cygorek , Vollrath Martin Axt

We study spin-dependent transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external step-like potential $V(x)$ and irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum splits into spin sub-bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

We show that with a system of electrically-gated wide quantum wells embedded inside a simple dielectric waveguide structure, it is possible to excite, control, and observe waveguided exciton polaritons that carry an electric dipole moment.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-15 Itamar Rosenberg , Yotam Harpaz , Kenneth West , Loren Pffeifer , Ronen Rapaport

We study the tunability of the spin-orbit interaction in a two-dimensional electron gas with a front and a back gate electrode by monitoring the spin precession frequency of drifting electrons using time-resolved Kerr rotation. The Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 M. Studer , G. Salis , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

We propose a theory of spin relaxation of electrons and holes in two-dimensional hexagonal crystals such as atomic layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (MoS2, WSe2, etc). We show that even in intrinsically defectless crystals, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 H. Ochoa , F. Guinea , V. I. Fal'ko

The trapping of excitons in a semiconductor quantum well due to a circular symmetric nonhomogeneous magnetic field is studied. The effect of the spin state of the exciton on its trapping energy is analyzed, and the importance of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. K. Freire , F. M. Peeters , A. Matulis , V. N. Freire , G. A. Farias

We have studied the time evolution of the electron spin polarization under continuous photoexcitation in remotely n-doped semiconductor quantum wells. The doped region allows us to get the necessary excess of free electrons to form trions.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Aceituno , A. Hernandez-Cabrera

We perform a full microscopic investigation on the spin relaxation in $n$-type (001) GaAs quantum wells with Al$_{0.4}$Ga$_{0.6}$As barrier due to the D'yakonov-perel' mechanism from nearly 20 K to the room temperature by constructing and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zhou , J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu

Spin-singlet and spin-triplet internal transitions of quasi-two-dimensional, negatively charged magneto-excitons (X-) and their evolution with excess electron density have been studied in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum-wells by optically detected…

We discuss the rate of relaxation of the total spin in the two-electron droplet in the vicinity of the magnetic field driven singlet-triplet transition. The total spin relaxation is attributed to spin-orbit and electron-phonon interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Dickmann , P. Hawrylak

Spin relaxation can be greatly enhanced in narrow channels of two-dimensional electron gas due to ballistic spin resonance, which is mediated by spin-orbit interaction for trajectories that bounce rapidly between channel walls. The channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 W. W. Yu , S. M. Frolov , S. Luescher , J. A. Folk , W. Wegscheider

The understanding of the fundamentals of spin and charge densities and currents interconversion by spin-orbit coupling can enable efficient applications beyond the possibilities offered by conventional electronics. For this purpose we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Amin Maleki Sheikhabadi , Iryna Miatka , E. Ya. Sherman , Roberto Raimondi

Spin relaxation was studied in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in a wide GaAs quantum well. Recently, the control of the spin relaxation anisotropy by diffusive motion was first shown in D. Iizasa et al., arXiv:2006.08253 (2020).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 F. G. G. Hernandez , G. J. Ferreira , M. Luengo-Kovac , V. Sih , N. M. Kawahala , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

We study the spin dynamics in a high-mobility two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with generic spin-orbit interactions (SOIs). We derive a set of spin dynamic equations which capture the purely exponential to the damped oscillatory spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Xin Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu , Jairo Sinova

We study the dynamical dielectric function of a two-dimensional hole gas, exemplified on [001]-GaAs and InAs quantum wells, within the Luttinger model extended to the two lowest subbands including bulk and structure inversion asymmetric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-06 Andreas Scholz , Tobias Dollinger , Paul Wenk , Klaus Richter , John Schliemann