Spin relaxation in the presence of electron-electron interactions |
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Authors: | Punnoose Alexander Finkel'stein Alexander M |
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Institution: | Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA. apunnoose@wisc.edu |
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Abstract: | The D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation induced by the spin-orbit interaction is examined in disordered two-dimensional electron gas. It is shown that, because of the electron-electron interactions, substantially different spin relaxation rates may be observed depending on the technique used to extract them. It is demonstrated that the relaxation rate of a spin population is proportional to the spin-diffusion constant D(s), while the spin-orbit scattering rate controlling the weak-localization corrections is proportional to the diffusion constant D, i.e., the conductivity. The two diffusion constants get strongly renormalized by the electron-electron interactions, but in different ways. As a result, the corresponding relaxation rates are different, with the difference between the two being especially strong near a magnetic instability or near the metal-insulator transition. |
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