Spin orientation of electrons by unpolarized light pulses in low-symmetry quantum wells
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute (Russian Federation)
The spin dynamics of electrons in low-symmetry quantum wells (QWs) under conditions of interband excitation by ultrashort unpolarized light pulses is investigated. It is shown that after the transmission, spin polarization appears in the system after a time comparable with the electron momentum relaxation time for an electron pulse and then vanishes. The microscopic theory of spin orientation of electrons by optical pulses carrying zero angular momentum is developed for asymmetric QWs grown from semiconductors with the zinc blende lattice along the [110] crystallographic direction. Pumping with unpolarized light in such structures in the normal incidence geometry induces a spin in the QW plane along the [1 1-bar 0] axis.
- OSTI ID:
- 22027976
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Vol. 113, Issue 5; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2011 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7761
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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