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The relaxation of atomic polarization in buffer-gas-free, paraffin-coated cesium vapor cells is studied using a variation on Franzen's technique of ``relaxation in the dark'' [Franzen, Phys. Rev. {\bf 115}, 850 (1959)]. In the present…
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Spin noise (SN) spectroscopy measurements on delicate semiconductor spin systems, like single InGaAs quantum dots, are currently not limited by optical shot noise but rather by the electronic noise of the detection system. Here, we report a…
We advance spin noise spectroscopy to an ultrafast tool to resolve high frequency spin dynamics in semiconductors. The optical non-demolition experiment reveals the genuine origin of the inhomogeneous spin dephasing in n-doped GaAs wafers…
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