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Precession and motional slowing of spin evolution in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas

Precession and motional slowing of spin evolution in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas
Precession and motional slowing of spin evolution in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas
Optical spin-dynamic measurements in a high-mobility n-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well show oscillatory evolution at 1.8 K consistent with a quasi-collision-free D’yakonov-Perel’-Kachorovskii regime. Above 5 K evolution becomes exponential as expected for collision-dominated spin dynamics. Momentum scattering times extracted from Hall mobility and Monte Carlo simulation of spin polarization agree at 1.8 K but diverge at higher temperatures, indicating the importance of electron-electron scattering and an intrinsic upper limit for the spin-relaxation rate.
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Brand, M.A., Malinowski, A., Karimov, O.Z., Marsden, P.A., Harley, R.T., Shields, A.J., Sanvitto, D., Ritchie, D.A. and Simmons, M.Y. (2002) Precession and motional slowing of spin evolution in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas. Physical Review Letters, 89 (23), 236601. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.236601).

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Optical spin-dynamic measurements in a high-mobility n-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well show oscillatory evolution at 1.8 K consistent with a quasi-collision-free D’yakonov-Perel’-Kachorovskii regime. Above 5 K evolution becomes exponential as expected for collision-dominated spin dynamics. Momentum scattering times extracted from Hall mobility and Monte Carlo simulation of spin polarization agree at 1.8 K but diverge at higher temperatures, indicating the importance of electron-electron scattering and an intrinsic upper limit for the spin-relaxation rate.

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Published date: 18 November 2002
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre, Physics & Astronomy

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Local EPrints ID: 37689
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/37689
ISSN: 0031-9007
PURE UUID: 20362339-e968-46cc-9c0f-761222d8653b

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Date deposited: 25 May 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 08:01

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Author: M.A. Brand
Author: A. Malinowski
Author: O.Z. Karimov
Author: P.A. Marsden
Author: R.T. Harley
Author: A.J. Shields
Author: D. Sanvitto
Author: D.A. Ritchie
Author: M.Y. Simmons

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