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Coherent Population Trapping of an Electron Spin in a Single Negatively Charged Quantum Dot

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

Coherent population trapping (CPT) refers to the steady-state trapping of population in a coherent superposition of two ground states which are coupled by coherent optical fields to an intermediate state in a three-level atomic system. Recently, CPT has been observed in an ensemble of donor bound spins in GaAs and in single nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond by using a fluorescence technique. Here we report the demonstration of CPT of an electron spin in a single quantum dot (QD) charged with one electron.

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@article{arxiv.0805.2074,
  title  = {Coherent Population Trapping of an Electron Spin in a Single Negatively Charged Quantum Dot},
  author = {Xiaodong Xu and Bo Sun and Paul R. Berman and Duncan G. Steel and Allan S. Bracker and Dan Gammon and L. J. Sham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2074},
  year   = {2009}
}

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to be appeared in Nature Physics