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Band structure of honeycomb photonic crystal slabs
Two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb photonic crystals with cylinders and
connecting walls have the potential to have a large full band gap. In
experiments, 2D photonic crystals do not have an infinite height, and
therefore, we investigate the effects of the thickness of the walls, the height
of the slabs and the type of the substrates on the photonic bands and gap maps
of 2D honeycomb photonic crystal slabs. The band structures are calculated by
the plane wave expansion method and the supercell approach. We find that the
slab thickness is a key parameter affecting the band gap size while on the
other hand the wall thickness hardly affact the gap size. For symmetric
photonic crystal slabs with lower dielectric claddings, the height of the slabs
needs to be sufficiently large to maintain a band gap. For asymmetric
claddings, the projected band diagrams are similar to that of symmetric slabs
as long as the dielectric constants of the claddings do not differ greatly.Comment: Accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physic
Mean-Field Description of Phase String Effect in the Model
A mean-field treatment of the phase string effect in the model is
presented. Such a theory is able to unite the antiferromagnetic (AF) phase at
half-filling and metallic phase at finite doping within a single theoretical
framework. We find that the low-temperature occurrence of the AF long range
ordering (AFLRO) at half-filling and superconducting condensation in metallic
phase are all due to Bose condensations of spinons and holons, respectively, on
the top of a spin background described by bosonic resonating-valence-bond (RVB)
pairing. The fact that both spinon and holon here are bosonic objects, as the
result of the phase string effect, represents a crucial difference from the
conventional slave-boson and slave-fermion approaches. This theory also allows
an underdoped metallic regime where the Bose condensation of spinons can still
exist. Even though the AFLRO is gone here, such a regime corresponds to a
microscopic charge inhomogeneity with short-ranged spin ordering. We discuss
some characteristic experimental consequences for those different metallic
regimes. A perspective on broader issues based on the phase string theory is
also discussed.Comment: 18 pages, five figure
Numerical Study of the Spin Hall Conductance in the Luttinger Model
We present first numerical studies of the disorder effect on the recently
proposed intrinsic spin Hall conductance in a three dimensional (3D) lattice
Luttinger model. The results show that the spin Hall conductance remains finite
in a wide range of disorder strength, with large fluctuations. The
disorder-configuration-averaged spin Hall conductance monotonically decreases
with the increase of disorder strength and vanishes before the Anderson
localization takes place. The finite-size effect is also discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures; the final version appearing in PR
Spin oscillations in transient diffusion of a spin pulse in n-type semiconductor quantum wells
By studying the time and spatial evolution of a pulse of the spin
polarization in -type semiconductor quantum wells, we highlight the
importance of the off-diagonal spin coherence in spin diffusion and transport.
Spin oscillations and spin polarization reverse along the the direction of spin
diffusion in the absence of the applied magnetic field are predicted from our
investigation.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in PR
Magnetic Incommensurability in Doped Mott Insulator
In this paper we explore the incommensurate spatial modulation of spin-spin
correlations as the intrinsic property of the doped Mott insulator, described
by the model. We show that such an incommensurability is a direct
manifestation of the phase string effect introduced by doped holes in both one-
and two-dimensional cases. The magnetic incommensurate peaks of dynamic spin
susceptibility in momentum space are in agreement with the neutron-scattering
measurement of cuprate superconductors in both position and doping dependence.
In particular, this incommensurate structure can naturally reconcile the
neutron-scattering and NMR experiments of cuprates.Comment: 12 pages (RevTex), five postscript figure
Multi-subband effect in spin dephasing in semiconductor quantum wells
Multi-subband effect on spin precession and spin dephasing in -type GaAs
quantum wells is studied with electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering
explicitly included. The effects of temperature, well width and applied
electric field (in hot-electron regime) on the spin kinetics are thoroughly
investigated. It is shown that due to the strong inter-subband scattering, the
spin procession and the spin dephasing rate of electrons in different subbands
are almost identical despite the large difference in the D'yakonov-Perel' (DP)
terms of different subbands. It is also shown that for quantum wells with small
well width at temperatures where only the lowest subband is occupied, the spin
dephasing time increases with the temperature as well as the applied in-plane
electric field until the contribution from the second subband is no longer
negligible. For wide quantum wells the spin dephasing time tends to decrease
with the temperature and the electric field.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures in eps forma
Band structure of honeycomb photonic crystal slabs
Two-dimensional Í‘2DÍ’ honeycomb photonic crystals with cylinders and connecting walls have the potential to have a large full band gap. In experiments, 2D photonic crystals do not have an infinite height, and therefore, we investigate the effects of the thickness of the walls, the height of the slabs, and the type of the substrates on the photonic bands and gap maps of 2D honeycomb photonic crystal slabs. The band structures are calculated by the plane wave expansion method and the supercell approach. We find that the slab thickness is a key parameter affecting the band gap size, while on the other hand the wall thickness hardly affects the gap size. For symmetric photonic crystal slabs with lower dielectric claddings, the height of the slabs needs to be sufficiently large to maintain a band gap. For asymmetric claddings, the projected band diagrams are similar to that of symmetric slabs as long as the dielectric constants of the claddings do not differ greatly
Spin relaxation due to random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in GaAs (110) quantum wells
We investigate the spin relaxation due to the random Rashba spin-orbit
coupling in symmetric GaAs (110) quantum wells from the fully microscopic
kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. All relevant scatterings, such as the
electron-impurity, electron--longitudinal-optical-phonon,
electron--acoustic-phonon, as well as electron-electron Coulomb scatterings are
explicitly included. It is shown that our calculation reproduces the
experimental data by M\"uller {\em et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 101}, 206601
(2008)] for a reasonable choice of parameter values. We also predict that the
temperature dependence of spin relaxation time presents a peak in the case with
low impurity density, which originates from the electron-electron Coulomb
scattering.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, EPL in pres
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