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Dyakonov-Perel spin relaxation near metal-insulator transition and in hopping transport

B. I. Shklovskii

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0602221

Abstract

In a heavily doped semiconductor with weak spin-orbital interaction the Dyakonov-Perel spin relaxation rate is known to be proportional to the Drude conductivity. We argue that in the case of weak spin-orbital interaction this proportionality goes beyond the Drude mechanism: it stays valid through the metal-insulator transition and in the range of the exponentially small hopping conductivity.

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