“…In the model, we neglect the excited orbital states by assuming that they are high in energy than the spin splittings and do not modify the qualitative behavior of the spin dynamics. For example, in silicon, there are six valley states of electrons due to the six-fold degeneracy of the conduction band [97,98,137,100,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150].…”