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Si/SiGe量子阱中的自旋扩散:不存在D 'yakonov-Perel'弛豫机制时的自旋弛豫

Spin diffusion in Si/SiGe quantum wells: spin relaxation in the absence of D'yakonov-Perel' relaxation mechanism

P. Zhang, M. W. Wu

摘要:

在这项工作中,自旋弛豫伴随着自旋扩散的对称Si/SiGe量子阱没有D 'yakonov-Perel'自旋弛豫机制从一个完全微观的方法计算。自旋弛豫是由Voigt组态中在磁场作用下,动量相关自旋进动在空间域中的不均匀展宽引起的。事实上,这种不均匀的加宽与散射一起导致沿着自旋扩散的不可逆自旋弛豫。研究了散射、磁场和电子密度对自旋扩散的影响。与具有D 'yakonov-Perel'自旋-轨道耦合的系统(如GaAs量子阱)中的自旋扩散情况不同,在这种情况下,散射可以根据系统是处于强散射极限还是弱散射极限来增强或减小自旋扩散,在本系统中,散射对非均匀加宽没有反作用,并且单调地抑制自旋扩散。磁场的增加降低了自旋扩散,而电子密度的增加在电子简并时增强了自旋扩散,但在电子非简并时影响很小。

英文摘要:

In this work, the spin relaxation accompanying the spin diffusion in symmetric Si/SiGe quantum wells without the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-relaxation mechanism is calculated from a fully microscopic approach. The spin relaxation is caused by the inhomogeneous broadening from the momentum-dependent spin precessions in spatial domain under a magnetic field in the Voigt configuration. In fact, this inhomogeneous broadening together with the scattering lead to an irreversible spin relaxation along the spin diffusion. The effects of scattering, magnetic field and electron density on spin diffusion are investigated. Unlike the case of spin diffusion in the system with the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-orbit coupling such as GaAs quantum wells where the scattering can either enhance or reduce spin diffusion depending on whether the system is in strong or weak scattering limit, the scattering in the present system has no counter-effect on the inhomogeneous broadening and suppresses the spin diffusion monotonically. The increase of magnetic field reduces the spin diffusion, while the increase of electron density enhances the spin diffusion when the electrons are degenerate but has marginal effect when the electrons are nondegenerate.

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