Abstract

The charge and longitudinal spin responses induced in a spin-polarized quantum well by a weak electromagnetic field are investigated within the framework of the linear response theory. We evaluate the excitation frequencies for the intra- and inter-subband transitions of the collective charge and longitudinal spin density oscillations including many-body corrections beyond the random-phase approximation through the spin-dependent local field factors, G σ ±( q, ω) . An equation-of-motion method was used to obtain these corrections in the limit of long wavelengths, and the results are given in terms of the equilibrium pair correlation function. The finite degree of spin polarization is shown to introduce coupling between the charge and spin density modes, in contrast with the result for an unpolarized system.

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