Spin relaxation in low-dimensional systems

Details Spin relaxation in low-dimensional systems Spin relaxation in low-dimensional systems

1999-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9908416v1

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. 11, 5929-5952 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

1 PDF file, 13 eps figures, Proceedings of the 1998 International Workshop on Nanophysics and Electronics (NPE-98)- Lecce (Ita

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/11/31/304

We review some of the newest findings on the spin dynamics of carriers and excitons in GaAs/GaAlAs quantum wells. In intrinsic wells, where the optical properties are dominated by excitonic effects, we show that exciton-exciton interaction produces a breaking of the spin degeneracy in two-dimensional semiconductors. In doped wells, the two spin components of an optically created two-dimensional electron gas are well described by Fermi-Dirac distributions with a common temperature but different chemical potentials. The rate of the spin depolarization of the electron gas is found to be independent of the mean electron kinetic energy but accelerated by thermal spreading of the carriers.

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