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We consider the degree of conservation of nuclear spin polarization in the process of optical pumping under typical spin-exchange optical pumping conditions. Previous analyses have assumed that negligible nuclear spin precession occurs in…
Strategies for ultrafast optical control of magnetism have been a topic of intense research for several decades because of the potential impact in technologies such as magnetic memory, spintronics, and quantum computation, as well as the…
Photon correlation measurements reveal memory effects in the optical emission of single InAs quantum dots with timescales from 10 to 800 ns. With above-band optical excitation, a long-timescale negative correlation (antibunching) is…
The optical extinction spectra arising from localized surface plasmon resonance in doped semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have intensities and lineshapes determined by free charge carrier concentrations and the various mechanisms for…
We demonstrate by time-resolved resonance fluorescence measurements on a single self-assembled quantum dot an internal photo-effect that emits electrons from the dot by an intra-band excitation. We find a linear dependence of the optically…
Nonlinear optical processes associated with even-order nonlinear susceptibilities are critical for both classical and quantum technologies. Inversion symmetry, however, prevents nonlinear optical responses mediated by even-order…
The origin of helicity asymmetries in the optically-pumped NMR signal and hyperfine shift in GaAs is derived analytically and tested experimentally. The ratio of the optically-pumped to the equilibrium electron polarizations is a key…
We report on time-resolved optical and terahertz ultrafast spectroscopy of charge-carrier dynamics in the room-temperature antiferromagnetic semiconductor $\alpha $-MnTe. By optically pumping the system with 1.55 eV photons at room…
The recently predicted mechanism of orbital pumping enables the generation of pure orbital current from a precessing ferromagnet (FM) without the need for electrical current injection. This orbital current can be efficiently injected into…
We report on optical imaging studies of self-healing after laser-induced photodamage in disperse orange 11 dye doped into poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) polymer. In particular, the high spatial-contrast image of the damage track made by a…
Interstellar dust contains a component which reveals its presence by emitting a broad, unstructured band of light in the 540 to 950 nm wavelength range, referred to as Extended Red Emission (ERE). The presence of interstellar dust and…
31^P NMR spectral features in polycrystalline SmCoPO reveal an axially symmetric local magnetic field. At low temperature, the anisotropy of the internal magnetic field increases rapidly, with K_ab increasing faster than that of K_c. The…
We study the dynamics of the spin system that consist of a positively charged II-VI semiconductor quantum dot doped with a single Cr$^+$ ion. The resonant photoluminescence (PL) of the positively charged exciton coupled with the Cr$^+$ spin…
We demonstrate for the first time that impact ionization (II) [the inverse of Auger recombination (AR)] occurs with very high efficiency in semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). Interband optical excitation of PbSe NCs at low pump intensities,…
We report on time-resolved mid-infrared-pump terahertz-transmission-probe studies of the topological-insulator materials $(Bi_{1-x}Sb_{x})_{2}Te_{3}$, in which by varying x charge carriers are chemically tuned to be of n-type or p-type.…
The compound FeMnP$_{0.50}$Si$_{0.50}$ has been studied by magnetic measurements, M\"ossbauer spectroscopy and electronic structure and total energy calculations. An unexpected high magnetic hyperfine field for Fe atoms located at the…
We demonstrate an interface-sensitive NMR in a semiconducting nanostructure, where an NMR signal from the minute heterojunction region of a model heterojunction structure (In$_{0.48}$Ga$_{0.52}$P/GaAs) is detected by using nuclear…
We present a new experimental method to correlate the isotopic composition of intermediate mass fragments (IMF) emitted at mid-rapidity in semi-peripheral collisions with the emission timescale: IMFs emitted in the early stage of the…
Rapid injection of spin polarization into an ensemble of nuclear spins is a problem of broad interest, spanning dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) to quantum information science. We report on a strategy to boost the spin injection rate by…
We report a measurement of the ratio of dimensionless enhancement factors $\kappa_0$ for Cs-$^{129}$Xe and Rb-$^{129}$Xe in the temperature range $115-140\, ^{\circ}$C; both pairs are used in spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) to produce…