主题：学术报告--半导体纳米结构中的自旋动力学

 

重庆大学现代物理中心学术报告

              半导体纳米结构中的自旋动力学

Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures

        

                                 吴明卫         

合肥微尺度物质科学国家实验室研究员、中国科技大学物理系教授

时间：2008年11月6日（星期四）下午3:00

地点： A区理科楼309

 

Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale

University of Science and Technology of China

Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China

 

                homepage: http://wu.ustc.edu.cn/~mwu/

In this talk we are going to present our theoretical investigations on spin dynamics of semiconductor nanostructures  under various conditions. It is shown from a fully microscopic kinetic-spin-Bloch-equation (KSBE) approach that the single-particle approach is inadequate in accounting for the spin relaxation/dephasing (R/D) both in the time domain and the spacial domain. The momentum dependence of the effective magnetic field (the Dresselhaus and the Rashba terms) and the momentum dependence of the spin diffusion rate along the spacial gradient all serve as inhomogeneous broadenings. It is pointed out that in the presence of inhomogeneous broadening, any scattering, including the carrier-carrier Coulomb scattering, can cause irreversible spin R/D. Moreover, besides the spin R/D channel the scattering provides, it also gives rise to the counter effect to the inhomogeneous broadening. The scattering tends to drive carriers to a more homogeneous states and therefore suppresses the inhomogeneous broadening. Finally, this approach is valid in both strong and weak scattering regime and can be used to study systems far away from the equilibrium such as electrons of high spin polarization and/or electrons with strong electric field (hot electrons). Many novel effects are predicted from our theory and some have been realized experimentally very recently.

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