Research strategy: a systematic investigation of spin-related quantum transport phenomena in semiconductor wires and dots of new and recently developed materials in order to identify the relevant physics underlying coherent spin transport and control in low-dimensional systems.
Objectives
- to investigate spin-dependent transport in meso-scale semiconductor structures in view to design methods of characterization of spin-related parameters in new materials;
- to find materials and conditions suitable for incoherent and coherent transfer of spin in nano/micro- circuits and to develop method of detection of spin currents;
- to investigate fundamental aspects of electron spin dynamics in quantum dots and dot circuits and mechanisms of spin relaxation and de-coherence in order to identify materials and devices suitable for quantum information processing.
Project Leader
- Vladimir Falko
Lancaster University, IENS, Physics Department, UK
Principal Investigators
- Silvano De Franceschi
Laboratorio Nazionale TASC, CNR-INFM, Basovizza, IT - Klaus Ensslin
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Hönggerberg, Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, Zürich, CH - Tomas Jungwirth
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Physics, Department of Surface and Interfaces, Prague, CZ - Daniel Loss
University of Basel, Department of Physics, Basel, CH
