Hole spin relaxation in p-type GaAs quantum wires investigated by numerically solving fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Lu C ^a,b   Zulicke U ^c   Wu, M W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 55449090918     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.165321     Document Type: Article

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