Spin relaxation dynamics of quasiclassical electrons in ballistic quantum dots with strong spin-orbit coupling

Details Spin relaxation dynamics of quasiclassical electrons in ballistic quantum dots with strong spin-orbit coupling Spin relaxation dynamics of quasiclassical electrons in ballistic quantum dots with strong spin-orbit coupling

2004-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405212v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

14 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.245309

We performed path integral simulations of spin evolution controlled by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the semiclassical regime for chaotic and regular quantum dots. The spin polarization dynamics have been found to be strikingly different from the D'yakonov-Perel' (DP) spin relaxation in bulk systems. Also an important distinction have been found between long time spin evolutions in classically chaotic and regular systems. In the former case the spin polarization relaxes to zero within relaxation time much larger than the DP relaxation, while in the latter case it evolves to a time independent residual value. The quantum mechanical analysis of the spin evolution based on the exact solution of the Schroedinger equation with Rashba SOI has confirmed the results of the classical simulations for the circular dot, which is expected to be valid in general regular systems. In contrast, the spin relaxation down to zero in chaotic dots contradicts to what have to be expected from quantum mechanics. This signals on importance at long time of the mesoscopic echo effect missed in the semiclassical simulations.

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