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Electric-field switching of exciton spin splitting in coupled quantum dots

Materials Science 2009-11-13 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We investigate theoretically the spin splitting of the exciton states in semiconductor coupled quantum dots (CQDs) containing a single magnetic ion. We find that the spin splitting can be switched on/off in the CQDs \textit{via} the \textit{sp-d}exchange interaction using the electric field. An interesting bright-to-dark exciton transition can be found and significantly affects the photoluminescence spectrum. This phenonmenon is induced by the transition of the ground exciton state, arising from the hole mixing effect, between the bonding and antibonding states.

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@article{arxiv.0806.1994,
  title  = {Electric-field switching of exciton spin splitting in coupled quantum dots},
  author = {Xiaojing Li and Kai Chang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1994},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages, 5 figures. to appear in Appl. Phys. Lett