Inducing electron spin coherence in GaAs quantum well waveguides: Spin coherence without spin precession

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Sarkar, Susanta ^a   Palinginis, Phedon ^a   Ku, Pei Cheng ^b   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^b   Kwong, N H ^c   Binder, R ^c   Wang, Hailin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 33749159025     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.035343     Document Type: Article

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