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Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Computation

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Editors:
  1. D. D. Awschalom

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

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  2. D. Loss

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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  3. N. Samarth

    1. Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

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  • One of only few comprehensive books on Spintronics and Quantum Computation
  • this work is prepared by the world's foremost researchers in the field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Ferromagnetic III–V Semiconductors and Their Heterostructures

    • Hideo Ohno
    Pages 1-30

  3. Spin Injection and Transport in Micro- and Nanoscale Devices

    • Hong X. Tang, F. G. Monzon, Friso J. Jedema, Andrei T. Filip, Bart J. van Wees, Michael L. Roukes
    Pages 31-92

  4. Electrical Spin Injection: Spin-Polarized Transport from Magnetic into Non-Magnetic Semiconductors

    • Georg Schmidt, Laurens W. Molenkamp
    Pages 93-105

  5. Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors

    • Michael E. Flatté, Jeff M. Byers, Wayne H. Lau
    Pages 107-145

  6. Optical Manipulation, Transport and Storage of Spin Coherence in Semiconductors

    • David D. Awschalom, Nitin Samarth
    Pages 147-193

  7. Spin Condensates in Semiconductor Microcavities

    • Jeremy J. Baumberg
    Pages 195-219

  8. Spins for Quantum Information Processing

    • David P. DiVincenzo
    Pages 221-227

  9. Electron Spins in Quantum Dots as Qubits for Quantum Information Processing

    • Guido Burkard, Daniel Loss
    Pages 229-276

  10. Regulated Single Photons and Entangled Photons From a Quantum Dot Microcavity

    • Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Matthew Pelton, Charles Santori, Glenn S. Solomon, Oliver Benson, Jelena Vuckovic et al.
    Pages 277-305

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 307-311
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About this book

The past few decades of research and development in solid-state semicon­ ductor physics and electronics have witnessed a rapid growth in the drive to exploit quantum mechanics in the design and function of semiconductor devices. This has been fueled for instance by the remarkable advances in our ability to fabricate nanostructures such as quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. Despite this contemporary focus on semiconductor "quantum devices," a principal quantum mechanical aspect of the electron - its spin has it accounts for an added quan­ largely been ignored (except in as much as tum mechanical degeneracy). In recent years, however, a new paradigm of electronics based on the spin degree of freedom of the electron has begun to emerge. This field of semiconductor "spintronics" (spin transport electron­ ics or spin-based electronics) places electron spin rather than charge at the very center of interest. The underlying basis for this new electronics is the intimate connection between the charge and spin degrees of freedom of the electron via the Pauli principle. A crucial implication of this relationship is that spin effects can often be accessed through the orbital properties of the electron in the solid state. Examples for this are optical measurements of the spin state based on the Faraday effect and spin-dependent transport measure­ ments such as giant magneto-resistance (GMR). In this manner, information can be encoded in not only the electron's charge but also in its spin state, i. e.

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"This book is a collection of nine contemporary articles by leading experts covering a large range of areas of interest to practitioners in the field including; fabrication, spin dynamics and transport, spin readout, optical manipulation, and electron spins in quantum dots. ... Researchers and graduate students in this, or related areas, would find this collection a very useful and readable up-to-date reference." (Lloyd C L Hollenberg, The Physicist, Vol. 40 (3), 2003)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

    D. D. Awschalom

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    D. Loss

  • Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    N. Samarth

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Computation

  • Editors: D. D. Awschalom, D. Loss, N. Samarth

  • Series Title: NanoScience and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05003-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-42176-4Published: 13 June 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07577-3Published: 07 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-05003-3Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1434-4904

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7127

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 311

  • Topics: Nanotechnology, Optical and Electronic Materials, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials

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