https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00265-y
Strain-assisted spin manipulation in a quantum well
Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R. China
Corresponding author: a yli@hbar.zju.edu.cn
Received:
6
March
2008
Revised:
28
May
2008
Published online:
10
July
2008
We show that the efficiency of manipulating electron spins in semiconductor quantum wells can be enhanced by tuning strain strengths. The combined effects of intrinsic and strain-induced spin-orbit couplings vary for different quantum wells, which provide an alternative route to understand the experimental phenomena brought in by the strain. The contribution to the electron-dipole-spin-resonance intensity induced by the strain can be changed through adjusting the direction of the ac electric field in the x-y plane of the quantum well and tuning the strain strengths.
PACS: 71.70.Ej – Spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman and Stark splitting, Jahn-Teller effect / 71.70.Fk – Strain-induced splitting / 78.67.De – Quantum wells / 85.75.-d – Magnetoelectronics; spintronics: devices exploiting spin polarized transport or integrated magnetic fields
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2008
