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1Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, 142432, Russia.
Abstract:
We address damping of a Goldstone spin-rotation mode emerging in a quantum Hall ferromagnet due to laser pulse excitation. Recent experimental data show that the attenuation mechanism, dephasing of the observed Kerr precession, is apparently related not only to spatial fluctuations of the electron Landé factor in the quantum well, but to a hyperfine interaction with nuclei, because local magnetization of GaAs nuclei should also experience spatial fluctuations. The motion of the macroscopic spin-rotation state is studied microscopically by solving a non-stationary Schrödinger equation. Comparison with the previously studied channel of transverse spin relaxation (attenuation of Kerr oscillations) shows that relaxation via nuclei involves a longer quadratic stage of time-dependance of the transverse spin, and, accordingly, an elongated transition to a linear stage, so that a linear time-dependance may not be revealed.
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