2023/08/27 by Gionni Marchetti, Marchetti, Gionni
Physics and Astronomy · Materials Science · #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques #Surface and Thin Film Phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.14102
We argue that in the ensemble Monte Carlo approach, the spin decoherence caused by electron-electron interactions in n-type bulk GaAs at room temperature, according to Dyakonov-Perel theory, is mainly induced by the electron density while electron-electron scattering itself does not directly affect spin lifetime but instead influences it through any energy dependence of other scattering mechanisms as typically expected in the case of the electron mobility. Therefore, our analysis, which is strongly supported by Bayesian Occam's razor, reconciles the semiclassical Monte Carlo approach with the novel computational first-principles tool recently proposed by Xu, Habib, Sundararaman and Ping.