GaAs量子阱中存在Rashba和Dresselhaus自旋轨道耦合时各向异性自旋输运.pdfVIP

Anisotropic spin transport in GaAs quantum wells in the presence of competing Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit-coupling strengths J. L. Cheng,1, 2 M. W. Wu,1, 2, ∗ and I. C. da Cunha Lima1, † 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China 2Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China‡ (Dated: March 19, 2007) Aiming at the optimization of the spin diffusion length in (001) GaAs quantum wells, we explore the effect of the anisotropy of the spin-orbit coupling on the competition between the Rashba and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings by solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations with the electron- phonon and the electron-electron scattering explicitly included. For identical strengths of the Rashba and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, the spin diffusion length shows strong anisotropy not only for the spin polarization direction but also for the spin diffusion direction. Two special directions are used seeking for the large diffusion length: (110) and (110). Without the cubic term of the Dressel- haus spin-orbit coupling and with the identical Dresselhaus and Rashba strengths, infinite diffusion ¯ lengths can be obtained either for the spin diffusion/injection direction along (110), regardl