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Understanding the spin dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures ishighly important for future semiconductor spintronic devices. In high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems (2DES), the spin lifetime strongly depends on the initial degree of spin polarization due to the electron–electron interaction. The Hartree-Fock (HF) term of the Coulomb interaction acts like an effective out-of-plane magnetic field and thus reduces the spin-flip rate. By time-resolved Faraday rotation (TRFR) techniques, we demonstrate that the spin lifetime is increased by an order of magnitude as the initial spin polarization degree is raised from the low-polarization limit to several percent. We perform control experiments to decouple the excitation density in the sample from the spin polarization degree and investigate the interplay of the internal HF field and an external perpendicular magnetic field. The lifetime of spins oriented in the plane of a [001]-grown 2DES is strongly anisotropic if the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit fields are of the same order of magnitude. This anisotropy, which stems from the interference of the Rashba and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit fields, is highly density-dependent: as the electron density is increased, the kubic Dresselhaus term becomes dominant und reduces the anisotropy.
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Korn, T., Stich, D., Schulz, R., Schuh, D., Wegscheider, W., Schüller, C. (2009). Spin Dynamics in High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems. In: Haug, R. (eds) Advances in Solid State Physics. Advances in Solid State Physics, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85859-1_12
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