Many-body effect in spin dephasing in n-type GaAs quantum wells

By constructing and numerically solving the kinetic Bloch equations we perform a many-body study of the spin dephasing due to the D'yakonov-Perel' effect in n-type GaAs (100) quantum wells for high temperatures. In our study, we include the spin-conserving scattering such as the electron-phonon, the electron-nonmagnetic impurity as well as the electron-electron Coulomb scattering into consideration. The dephasing obtained from our theory contains both the single-particle and the many-body contributions with the latter originating from the inhomogeneous broadening introduced by the DP term [J. Supercond.: Incorp. Novel Magn. 14 (2001) 245; Eur. Phys. J. B 18 (2000) 373]. Our result agrees very well with the experimental data [Phys. Rev. B 62 (2000) 13034] of Malinowski et al. We further show that in the case we study, the spin dephasing is dominated by the many-body effect.