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Electrical Control of Dynamic Spin Splitting Induced by Exchange Interaction as Revealed by Time Resolved Kerr Rotation in a Degenerate Spin-Polarized Electron Gas F. Zhang, H. Z. Zheng*, Y. Ji, J. Liu, G. R. Li The State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 912, Beijing 100083 PACS numbers: 72.25.Fe, 72.25.Dc, 78.47.+p, 71.70.Gm The manipulation of spin degree of freedom have been demonstrated in spin polarized electron plasma in a heterostructure by using exchange-interaction induced dynamic spin splitting rather than the Rashba and Dresselhaus types, as revealed by time resolved Kerr rotation. The measured spin splitting increases from 0.256meV to 0.559meV as the bias varies from -0.3V to -0.6V. Both the sign switch of Kerr signal and the phase reversal of Larmor precessions have been observed with biases, which all fit into the framework of exchange-interaction-induced spin splitting. The electrical control of it may provide a new effective scheme for manipulating spin-selected transport in spin FET-like devices. * To whom the correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hzzheng@red.semi.ac.cn The issue of most concern in spintronic devices is how to manipulate the spin degree of freedom in order to obtain superior functionality. The spin-orbit interactions both due to structure asymmetry (Rashba term) and due to bulk inversion asymmetry (Dresselhaus term) are going to induce spin splitting at nonzero in-plane wave vectors. They have extensively been explored to manipulate an assembly of spin polarized electrons in various kinds of prototype spin devices [1]. Because of in-plane momentum dependence, the spin-orbit interactions also bring a new type of precession-related spin dephasing events [2]. In the present work, instead of the Rashba and Dresselhaus types, it has been demonstrated tha