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Optically probing the fine structure of a single Mn atom in an InAs quantum dot

Materials Science 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We report on the optical spectroscopy of a single InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) doped with a single Mn atom in a longitudinal magnetic field of a few Tesla. Our findings show that the Mn impurity is a neutral acceptor state A^0 whose effective spin J=1 is significantly perturbed by the QD potential and its associated strain field. The spin interaction with photo-carriers injected in the quantum dot is shown to be ferromagnetic for holes, with an effective coupling constant of a few hundreds of micro-eV, but vanishingly small for electrons.

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@article{arxiv.0710.5389,
  title  = {Optically probing the fine structure of a single Mn atom in an InAs quantum dot},
  author = {A. Kudelski and A. Lemaître and A. Miard and P. Voisin and T. C. M. Graham and R. J. Warburton and O. Krebs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5389},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures

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