Suppressed spin dephasing for two-dimensional and bulk electrons in GaAs wires due to engineered cancellation of spin-orbit interaction terms

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Denega, S Z ^a   Last, T ^a   Liu, J ^a   Slachter, A ^a   Rizo, P J ^a   Van Loosdrecht, P H M ^a   Van Wees, B J ^a   Reuter, D ^b   Wieck, A D ^b   Van Der Wal, C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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EID: 77955396224     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.153302     Document Type: Article

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