Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Computation
By: edited by D. D. Awschalom, D. Loss, N. Samarth
Contributors: Loss, D.; Samarth, N.
Series: NanoScience and Technology; NanoScience and Technology
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9783642075773; 9783662050033
Subjects: Magnetism; Nanotechnology; Optical materials
Description: The manipulation of electric charge in bulk semiconductors and their heterostructures forms the basis of virtually all contemporary electronic and opto-electronic devices. Recent studies of spin-dependent phenomena in semiconductors have now opened the door to technological possibilities that harness the spin of the electron in semiconductor devices. In addition to providing spin-dependent analogies that extend existing electronic devices into the realm of semiconductor "spintronics," the spin degree of freedom also offers prospects for fundamentally new functionality within the quantum domain, ranging from storage to computation. It is anticipated that the spin degree of freedom in semiconductors will play a crucial role in the development of information technologies in the 21st century. This book brings together a team of experts to provide an overview of emerging concepts in this rapidly developing field. The topics range from spin transport and injection in semiconductors and their heterostructures to coherent processes and computation in semiconductor quantum structures and microcavities.
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Table of contents: title: Ferromagnetic III-V Semiconductors and Their Heterostructures; title: Spin Injection and Transport in Micro- and Nanoscale Devices; title: Electrical Spin Injection: Spin-Polarized Transport from Magnetic into Non-magnetic Semiconductors; title: Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors; title: Optical Manipulation, Transport and Storage of Spin Coherence in Semiconductors; title: Spin Condensates in Semiconductor Microcavities; title: Spins for Quantum Information Processing; title: Electron Spins in Quantum Dots as Qubits for Quantum Information Processing; title: Regulated Single Photons and Entangled Photons from a Quantum Dot Microcavity.