Print Email Facebook Twitter Quantum dynamics of nuclear spins and spin relaxation in organic semiconductors Title Quantum dynamics of nuclear spins and spin relaxation in organic semiconductors Author Mkhitaryan, V. V. (Iowa State University) Dobrovitski, V.V. (TU Delft QID/Dobrovitski Group; Iowa State University) Date 2017 Abstract We investigate the role of the nuclear-spin quantum dynamics in hyperfine-induced spin relaxation of hopping carriers in organic semiconductors. The fast-hopping regime, when the carrier spin does not rotate much between subsequent hops, is typical for organic semiconductors possessing long spin coherence times. We consider this regime and focus on a carrier random-walk diffusion in one dimension, where the effect of the nuclear-spin dynamics is expected to be the strongest. Exact numerical simulations of spin systems with up to 25 nuclear spins are performed using the Suzuki-Trotter decomposition of the evolution operator. Larger nuclear-spin systems are modeled utilizing the spin-coherent state P-representation approach developed earlier. We find that the nuclear-spin dynamics strongly influences the carrier spin relaxation at long times. If the random walk is restricted to a small area, it leads to the quenching of carrier spin polarization at a nonzero value at long times. If the random walk is unrestricted, the carrier spin polarization acquires a long-time tail, decaying as 1/t. Based on the numerical results, we devise a simple formula describing the effect quantitatively. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c4865b35-4b47-44b6-931e-5d283e1819e0 DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.214204 ISSN 1098-0121 Source Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), 95 (21) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 V. V. Mkhitaryan, V.V. Dobrovitski Files PDF PhysRevB.95.214204.pdf 540.01 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c4865b35-4b47-44b6-931e-5d283e1819e0/datastream/OBJ/view