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Lechner, Vera ; Golub, Leonid ; Lomakina, F. ; Belkov, Vassilij ; Olbrich, Peter ; Stachel, Sebastian ; Caspers, Ines ; Griesbeck, Michael ; Kugler, Michael ; Hirmer, Michael ; Korn, Tobias ; Schueller, Christian ; Schuh, Dieter ; Wegscheider, Werner ; Ganichev, Sergey

Spin and orbital mechanisms of the magnetogyrotropic photogalvanic effects in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum well structures

Lechner, Vera, Golub, Leonid , Lomakina, F., Belkov, Vassilij, Olbrich, Peter, Stachel, Sebastian, Caspers, Ines, Griesbeck, Michael, Kugler, Michael, Hirmer, Michael, Korn, Tobias , Schueller, Christian, Schuh, Dieter, Wegscheider, Werner and Ganichev, Sergey (2011) Spin and orbital mechanisms of the magnetogyrotropic photogalvanic effects in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum well structures. Physical Review B (PRB) 83 (15), p. 155313.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 22 May 2012 13:01
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.24495


Abstract

We report on the study of the linear and circular magnetogyrotropic photogalvanic effect (MPGE) in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well structures. Using the fact that in such structures the Lande factor g* depends on the quantum well (QW) width and has different signs for narrow and wide QWs, we succeeded to separate spin and orbital contributions to both MPGEs. Our experiments show that, for most QW ...

We report on the study of the linear and circular magnetogyrotropic photogalvanic effect (MPGE) in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well structures. Using the fact that in such structures the Lande factor g* depends on the quantum well (QW) width and has different signs for narrow and wide QWs, we succeeded to separate spin and orbital contributions to both MPGEs. Our experiments show that, for most QW widths, the MPGEs are mainly driven by spin-related mechanisms, which results in a photocurrent proportional to the g* factor. In structures with a vanishingly small g* factor, however, linear and circular MPGE are also detected, proving the existence of orbital mechanisms.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhysical Review B (PRB)
Publisher:AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Place of Publication:COLLEGE PK
Volume:83
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:15
Page Range:p. 155313
Date20 April 2011
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Lupton > Group Christian Schüller
Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Alumni or Retired Professors > Group Werner Wegscheider
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10.1103/PhysRevB.83.155313DOI
Classification
NotationType
73.21.Fg, 72.25.Fe, 78.67.De, 73.63.HsPACS
KeywordsSEMICONDUCTORS; ELECTRONS; GAAS;
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-244958
Item ID24495

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