Issue |
EPL
Volume 84, Number 2, October 2008
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Article Number | 27006 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/84/27006 | |
Published online | 02 October 2008 |
Density dependence of spin relaxation in GaAs quantum well at room temperature
1
State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Department of Physics, Zhongshan University Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China
2
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
3
Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China - Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
Corresponding authors: stslts@mail.sysu.edu.cn. mwwu@ustc.edu.cn.
Received:
25
June
2008
Accepted:
8
September
2008
Carrier density dependence of electron spin relaxation in an intrinsic GaAs quantum well is investigated at room temperature using time-resolved circularly polarized pump-probe spectroscopy. It is revealed that the spin relaxation time first increases with density in the relatively low-density regime where the linear D'yakonov-Perel' spin-orbit coupling terms are dominant, and then tends to decrease when the density is large and the cubic D'yakonov-Perel' spin-orbit coupling terms become important. These features are in good agreement with theoretical predictions on density dependence of spin relaxation by Lü et al. (Phys. Rev. B, 73 (2006) 125314). A fully microscopic calculation based on numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations with both the D'yakonov-Perel' and the Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanisms included, reproduces the density dependence of spin relaxation very well.
PACS: 72.25.Rb – Spin relaxation and scattering / 78.67.De – Quantum wells / 71.10.-w – Theories and models of many-electron systems
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