The Bloch NMR model has over the years proven to be a good diagnostic tool for investigating properties of known quantities. For example, the Bloch NMR equations has shown good success in the study biological and physiological properties of living tissue [1,2]. Besides medical applications, the Bloch NMR equations were used to investigate the thermodynamic properties of system e.g. the Wegner distribution function [3]. Recently, the Bloch NMR was used to analyse the magnetic penetration depth of superconducting material and was also applied to explain the muon-spin [4].

The technological and computational prospects of semiconductor spintronics have been explored in various researches [5-10]. One of the notable works in the semiconductor spintronics is the Rashba term [11-13]. One of the major successes of the Rashba term is the measurement of the strength of spin splitting using the Rashba energy of split state and coupling parameter. The Rashba energies can be tuned by changing the composition parameters of the surface alloy [14,15] while the Rashba coupling parameter (α_R) was calculated as 10⁻¹ eVÅ for conventional narrow-gap semiconductor structures. Unfortunately, low Rashba coupling parameter do not supports the 2 d spintronics device. Early this year, a layered semiconductor (bismuth tellurohalides) was found to exhibit a large spin splitting [16] which was about 4.8 eV. The improvements on the spin-split extended to nonmagnetic material where the Rashba-Bychkov effect shows the possibility of producing spin-split energy bands in nonmagnetic materials without the application of any external magnetic field [17]. The Rashba splitting was believed to have been absent in quantum wells because quantum well states are standing waves [18], but was opposed by Stanley et al. [19]. The later proved that Rashba splitting occurs in the quantum well states II-V semiconductors. The giant spin splitting in semiconductor is dependent on the spin-orbit interaction [17,20] which is now referred to as the Rashba spin-orbit interaction [12]. The gaint spin splitting was first demonstrated on a noble metal [21,22] and further improved on in thin-film [23,24].

In this paper, the Bloch NMR equations were used as a diagnostic tool to analyze the Rashba energies state in a rotating magnetic frame. Derivations of operational equations were used to solve the Rashba energy with the mind set of investigating the conditions necessary for the presence of Rashba splitting in quantum wells and the possibility of controlling the confinement potential magnetically.

The following theoretical assumptions were made in order to incorporate the Bloch NMR into the spintronics device 1) The Rashba parameter was substituted for the spin coupling in the Bloch NMR because they both are synonymous in operation.

2) Let the excitation frequencies in each concept be the same

3) The macroscopic magnetization of the localized was equated with the equilibrium magnetization of the Bloch model.

4) Semiconductors have various electron-hole recombination rates [25,26]. The speed of the holes and electrons is assumed.

5) Both the g tends to 1, likewise the frequency difference between Larmor frequencies.

In this section, the simulations of Equations (22)-(24) under various conditions e.g. the time relaxations and magnetic moments. Time relaxations of 9 ns was applied (Laura Fanea et al., 2011) to investigate the behavior of the Rashba energy with respect to its longitudinal and transverse component.

Thermal motion of the hole was investigated in Figure 2 where the hole velocity was plotted against the angle of propagation at a relaxation time 9 × 10⁻⁹ s. Its results was in accordance with past papers [27,28] which was interpreted that the stochastic modulation of the interaction between the heavy and light hole sub-bands may induce a nonadiabatic transitions between them, which may eventually lead to J-relaxation and dephasing. In Figure 3, the focus was to which type of character is dominant among the subbands. In accordance to the graphical expression given by Winkler [29] it was discovered that the features of Figure 3 is a heavy hole character. Figure 4 investigated the relationship between the potential and the spin mobility within the system. The direction of the wavelike structure gives an asymmetric double peak structure which shows that energy exist between the peaks which was as a result of the perpendicular magnetic field. An in-plane inversion asymmetry can induce a contribution from an in-plane potential gradient, which can strongly enhance the spin splitting [22]. Figures 5 and 6 explain more on effect of the external magnetic fields on the holes or electron in the quantum well. Actually, Figure 5 supports the idea that quantum well states are standing waves and should therefore show no Rashba splitting while Figure 6 supports that the Rashba splitting occurs in the quantum well state (two strange events). One of the objectives of this paper was to investigate the conditions necessary for the Rashba splitting within the quantum well. Figures 7 and 8 are similar in shape i.e. showing the strength of the splitting. Figures 9 and 10 show the Rashba energies at ground state (in which was calculated at about ≥43 meV) which have two branches synonymous to the spin up state and the spin down state.

Unlike the findings of Eerdunchaolu et al. [30] an increase in the Rashba energy makes no significant change in χ₁ & χ₂ (which is described as the height). More importantly, it reveals that Rashba split of orbit interaction effect is not dependent on the height in the y direction. This is because the effective magnetic field which is produced by spin-orbit coupling (due to the lack of structure inversion symmetry) is approximately perpendicular to the electron momentum in the quantum ring. Figure 11 shows that electron wave function bound in a quantum well in the presence of an external (or built-in) field e.g. M_x, M_y or M_z. Very much like the reaction of the electric

fields in the quantum well, the behavioral features of the effective magnetic field in the conduction band (upper part of Figure 11) and valence band (lower part of Figure 11)) is the sum of the magnetic field and the contributions due to the position dependence of the conduction band. In other words, the modification of Ehrenfest’s theorem becomes necessary because it is the magnetic field in the valence band that controls the Rashba spin splitting of electron states. Figure 12 gives a joint feature of Figures 5 and 6 which may suggest the possibility of the ideas of Petersen et al. [18] and Stanley et al. [19] occurring simultaneously within the quantum well.

The Bloch NMR model has been proven to be efficient in analyzing the fundamentals of spintronics. It was discovered that an increase in the Rashba energy makes no sig-

nificant changes in χ₁ & χ₂ (which was described as height). This result, makes the Rashba split of orbit interaction effect independent on the height along the y direction as shown in Figures 9 and 10. Furthermore, this led to the alteration of Ehrenfest’s theorem (which originally applies to the external electric fields), but now applies to the external magnetic field. Therefore, the confinement potential which is the strength of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction can also be controlled magnetically. This idea may be expatiated upon based on further research. Also the Bloch NMR was also effective to analyze the quantum well i.e. even though it is a standing wave, it could still experience Rashba splitting when the quantized electron energy E_e ≥ 1 meV and the length of the quantum well is 6 nm.

This work is self-funded. I appreciate Mrs. Jennifer Emetere for editing the script. I appreciate the Head of Physics Department of the above named institution.