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Nuclear spins are polarized electrically in a breakdown regime of an odd-integer quantum Hall effect (QHE). Electron excitation to the upper Landau subband with the opposite spin polarity flips nuclear spins through the hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-04 M. Kawamura , H. Takahashi , S. Masubuchi , Y. Hashimoto , S. Katsumoto , K. Hamaya , T. Machida

We report circular-to-linear and linear-to-circular conversion of optical polarization by semiconductor quantum dots. The polarization conversion occurs under continuous wave excitation in absence of any magnetic field. The effect…

Highly polarized nuclear spins within a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) induce effective magnetic (Overhauser) fields of up to several Tesla acting on the electron spin or up to a few hundred mT for the hole spin. Recently this has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 M. N. Makhonin , K. V. Kavokin , P. Senellart , A. Lema^itre , A. J. Ramsay , M. S. Skolnick , A. I. Tartakovskii

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

Optical pump-probe techniques are used to generate and measure electron spin polarization in a gallium arsenide epilayer in which the electron spin coherence time exceeds the mode-locked laser repetition period. Resonant spin amplification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Michael Macmahon , Joseph R. Iafrate , Michael J. Dominguez , Vanessa Sih

We investigate in detail, using both analytical and numerical tools, the decoherence of electron spins in quantum dots (QDs) coupled to a bath of nuclear spins in magnetic fields or with various initial bath polarizations, focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wenxian Zhang , V. V. Dobrovitski , K. A. Al-Hassanieh , E. Dagotto , B. N. Harmon

Spatially nonhomogeneously spin polarized nuclei are proposed as a new mechanism to monitor electron states in a nanostructure, or as a means to createn and, if necessary, reshape such nanostructures in the course of the experiment. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. Fleurov , V. A. Ivanov , F. M. Peeters , I. D. Vagner

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 use of nuclear spins as physical sensing systems is disadvantaged by their low signal responsivity, particularly when compared to sensing techniques based on electron spins. This primarily results from the small nuclear gyromagnetic…

Sizable nuclear spin polarization is pumped in individual InP/GaInP dots in a wide range of external magnetic fields B_ext=0-5T by circularly polarized optical excitation. We observe nuclear polarization of up to ~40% at Bext=1.5T and…

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 demonstrate a new method for electrical manipulation of nuclear spins utilizing dynamic nuclear polarization induced by quantum Hall effect breakdown. Nuclear spins are polarized and detected through the hyperfine interaction between a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-17 Minoru Kawamura , Hiroyuki Takahashi , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Shingo Katsumoto , Tomoki Machida

We present a microscopic theory of the nonequilibrium nuclear spin dynamics driven by the electron and/or hole under continuous wave pumping in a quantum dot. We show the correlated dynamics of the nuclear spin ensemble and the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Wen Yang , L. J. Sham

The nuclear spin fluctuations (NSF) as well as the dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) and their effects on the electron spins in negatively charged (In,Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots have been studied by polarized pump-probe and photoluminescence…

A microscopic theory of spin fluctuations of localized electrons interacting with optically cooled nuclear spin bath has been developed. Since nuclear spin temperature may stay low enough for macroscopically long time, the nuclear spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 D. S. Smirnov

Nuclear spin polarization induced by hyperfine interaction and the Edelstein effect due to strong spin-orbit interaction is investigated by quantum transport in Bi(111) thin film samples. The Bi(111) films are deposited on mica by van der…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Zijian Jiang , Victoria Soghomonian , Jean J. Heremans

We consider nuclear spin dynamics in a two-electron double dot system near the intersection of the electron spin singlet $S$ and the lower energy component $T_{+}$ of the spin triplet. The electron spin interacts with nuclear spins and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Arne Brataas , Emmanuel I. Rashba

We investigate the dynamic nuclear polarization from the hyperfine interaction between nonequilibrium electronic spins and nuclear spins coupled to them in semiconductor nanostructures. We derive the time and position dependence of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ionel Tifrea , Michael E. Flatte

We show that detuned optical pulse trains with a modest spectral width can polarize nuclear spins in InAs quantum dots. The pulse bandwidth is large enough to excite a coherent superposition of both electron spin eigenstates in these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. G. Carter , Sophia E. Economou , A. Shabaev , A. S. Bracker

We study a mechanism by which nuclear hyperpolarization due to the polarization transfer from a microwave-pulse-controlled electron spin is suppressed. From analytical and numerical calculations of the unitary dynamics of multiple nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Kento Sasaki , Eisuke Abe