Magnetic field effect on electron spin dynamics in (110) GaAs quantum wells

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, G ^a,b   Balocchi, A ^b   Poshakinskiy, A V ^c   Zhu, C R ^a   Tarasenko, S A ^c   Amand, T ^b   Liu, B L ^a   Marie, X ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSA   (France)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

(110) quantum wells; Dresselhaus; Kerr rotation; Rashba; spin dynamics

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSPINNING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ASYMMETRIC QUANTUM WELLS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; DRESSELHAUS; ELECTRON-SPIN RELAXATION; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; GAAS/ALGAAS QUANTUM WELL; KERR ROTATION; RASHBA;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 84899574973     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/4/045008     Document Type: Article

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