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We present a quantum mechanical theory of optically induced dynamic nuclear polarization applicable to quantum dots and other interacting spin systems. The exact steady state of the optically driven coupled electron-nuclear system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Thomas Nutz , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

A novel spin orientation mechanism - dynamic electron spin polarization has been recently suggested in Phys. Rev. Lett. $\mathbf{125}$, 156801 (2020). It takes place for unpolarized optical excitation in weak magnetic fields of the order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. S. Shamirzaev , A. V. Shumilin , D. S. Smirnov , J. Rautert , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

We study light-induced nuclear spin-polarization in a thin film of Ga1-xMnxAs (x 0.04), a dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor, grown on a GaAs substrate. High-field inductively-detected Ga-71 NMR was performed with samples immersed in…

We present an experimental study of the dynamics underlying the buildup and decay of dynamical nuclear spin polarization in a single semiconductor quantum dot. Our experiment shows that the nuclei can be polarized on a time scale of a few…

Optics · Physics 2007-08-02 P. Maletinsky , A. Badolato , A. Imamoglu

Current-induced electron spin polarization is shown to produce nuclear hyperpolarization through dynamic nuclear polarization. Saturated fields of several millitesla are generated upon the application of electric field over a timescale of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-31 C. J. Trowbridge , B. M. Norman , Y. K. Kato , D. D. Awschalom , V. Sih

We report electrical control of the spin polarization of InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) at room temperature. This is achieved by electrical injection of spin-polarized electrons from an Fe Schottky contact. The circular…

We find that detuning an optical pulse train from electronic transitions in quantum dots controls the direction of nuclear spin flips. The optical pulse train generates electron spins that precess about an applied magnetic field, with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. G. Carter , A. Shabaev , Sophia E. Economou , T. A. Kennedy , A. S. Bracker , T. L. Reinecke

We study the mechanism of dynamical nuclear spin polarization by hyperfine interaction in spin-blocked double quantum dot system. We calculate the hyperfine transition rates and solve the master equations for the nuclear spins.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Changxue Deng , Xuedong Hu

We have studied the coherent spin dynamics in an oblique magnetic field of electrons localized on donors and placed in the middle of a single CdTe quantum well, by using a time-resolved optical technique: the photo-induced Faraday rotation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Testelin , F. Bernardot , G. Karczewski , M. Chamarro

We polarize nuclear spins in a GaAs double quantum dot by controlling two-electron spin states near the anti-crossing of the singlet (S) and m_S=+1 triplet (T+) using pulsed gates. An initialized S state is cyclically brought into resonance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. R. Petta , J. M. Taylor , A. C. Johnson , A. Yacoby , M. D. Lukin , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We study the optically pumped nuclear spin polarization in a single GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well in the quantum Hall system. We apply resistive detection via the contact hyperfine interaction, which provides high sensitivity and selectivity, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 K. Akiba , T. Yuge , S. Kanasugi , K. Nagase , Y. Hirayama

We show that through the resonant optical excitation of spin-polarized excitons into CdMnTe magnetic quantum dots, we can induce a macroscopic magnetization of the Mn impurities. We observe very broad (4 meV linewidth) emission lines of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Gurung , S. Mackowski , H. E. Jackson , L. M. Smith , W. Heiss , J. Kossut , G. Karczewski

The physics of interacting nuclear spins arranged in a crystalline lattice is typically described using a thermodynamic framework: a variety of experimental studies in bulk solid-state systems have proven the concept of a spin temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 P. Maletinsky , M. Kroner , A. Imamoglu

The optical manipulation of electron spins is of great benefit to solid-state quantum information processing. In this letter, we provide a comparative study on the ultrafast optical manipulation of single electron spin in the doped and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Jinshuang Jin , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

We theoretically investigate the controlled dynamic polarization of lattice nuclear spins in GaAs double quantum dots containing two electrons. Three regimes of long-term dynamics are identified, including the build up of a large difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-07 M. Gullans , J. J. Krich , J. M. Taylor , H. Bluhm , B. I. Halperin , C. M. Marcus , M. Stopa , A. Yacoby , M. D. Lukin

By operating a one-electron quantum dot (fabricated between a multielectron dot and a one-electron reference dot) as a spectroscopic probe, we study the spin properties of a gate-controlled multielectron GaAs quantum dot at the transition…

We report on optical orientation of Mn^2+ in bulk GaAs under application of weak longitudinal magnetic field (B <= 100 mT). The manganese spin polarization of 25% is directly evaluated using spin flip Raman scattering spectroscopy. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-08 I. A. Akimov , R. I. Dzhioev , V. L. Korenev , Yu. G. Kusrayev , V. F. Sapega , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

We suggest a new spin orientation mechanism for localized electrons: $dynamic~electron~spin~polarization~provided~by~nuclear~spin~fluctuations$. The angular momentum for the electrons is gained from the nuclear spin system via the hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. S. Smirnov , T. S. Shamirzaev , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

Irradiating a semiconductor with circularly polarized light creates spin-polarized charge carriers. If the material contains atoms with non-zero nuclear spin, they interact with the electron spins via the hyperfine coupling. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-09 Raphael W. Mocek , Danil O. Tolmachev , Giovanni Cascio , Dieter Suter

We present dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) in the simplest pseudospin quantum Hall ferromagnet (QHF) of an InSb two-dimensional electron gas with a large g factor using tilted magnetic fields. The DNP-induced amplitude change of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 H. W. Liu , K. F. Yang , T. D. Mishima , M. B. Santos , Y. Hirayama