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Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors

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Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Computation

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Abstract

Recent advances in probing and manipulating spin dynamics in semiconductors suggest a new semiconducting electronics technology based on spin [1–3]. These advances include ultrafast all-optical manipulation of the spins of conduction electrons [4–9], core electrons of magnetic impurities [5], and nuclei [10–12], as well as all-electrical generation of optical orientation [13–15] and the development of a new class of III-V ferromagnetic semiconductors [16,17] (See Chaps. 1, 2, 3 and 5.) Thus the material properties of semiconductors essential to spintronic devices appear to be taking shape.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    D. D. Awschalom

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, 4056, Basel, Switzerland

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  3. Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Lab, 16802, University Park, PA, USA

    N. Samarth

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Flatté, M.E., Byers, J.M., Lau, W.H. (2002). Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors. In: Awschalom, D.D., Loss, D., Samarth, N. (eds) Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Computation. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05003-3_4

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