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Similar to nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and impurity atoms in silicon, interstitial gallium deep paramagnetic centers in GaAsN have been proven to have useful characteristics for the development of spintronic devices. Among other…

We theoretically investigate the influence of the fluctuating Overhauser field on the spin of an electron confined to a quantum dot (QD). The fluctuations arise from nuclear angular momentum being exchanged between different nuclei via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Erik Welander , Evgeny Chekhovich , Alexander Tartakovskii , Guido Burkard

We have studied hyperfine interactions between spin-polarized electrons and lattice nuclei in Al_0.1Ga_0.9As/GaAs quantum well (QW) heterostructures. The spin-polarized electrons are electrically injected into the semiconductor…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Strand , X. Lou , C. Adelmann , B. D. Schultz , A. F. Isakovic , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

We demonstrate bias control of the hyperfine coupling between a single electron in an InAs quantum dot and the surrounding nuclear spins monitored through the positively charged exciton X+ emission. In applied longitudinal magnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 J. Nilsson , L. Bouet , A. J. Bennett , T. Amand , R. M. Stevenson , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , S. Kunz , X. Marie , A. J. Shields , B. Urbaszek

We measure the strength and the sign of hyperfine interaction of a heavy-hole with nuclear spins in single self-assembled quantum dots. Our experiments utilize the locking of a quantum dot resonance to an incident laser frequency to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-02 P. Fallahi , S. T. Yilmaz , A. Imamoglu

We demonstrate the extension of coherence between all four two-electron spin ground states of an InAs quantum dot molecule (QDM) via non-local suppression of nuclear spin fluctuations in both constituent quantum dots (QDs), while optically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Colin M. Chow , Aaron M. Ross , Danny Kim , Daniel Gammon , Allan S. Bracker , L. J. Sham , Duncan G. Steel

We theoretically study the interplay of spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions in dynamical nuclear polarization in two-electron semiconductor double quantum dots near the singlet $(S)$ - triplet $(T_+)$ anticrossing. The goal of the scheme…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Marko J. Rančić , Guido Burkard

An electron confined in a quantum dot interacts with its local nuclear spin environment through the hyperfine contact interaction. This interaction combined with external control and relaxation or measurement of the electron spin allows for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes

The periodical modulation of circularly polarized light with a frequency close to the electron spin resonance frequency induces a sharp change of the single electron spin orientation. Hyperfine interaction provides a feedback, thus fixing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 V. L. Korenev

In III-V semiconductor nano-structures the electron and nuclear spin dynamics are strongly coupled. Both spin systems can be controlled optically. The nuclear spin dynamics is widely studied, but little is known about the initialization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 M. Manca , G. Wang , T. Kuroda , S. Shree , A. Balocchi , P. Renucci , X. Marie , M. V. Durnev , M. M. Glazov , K. Sakoda , T. Mano , T. Amand , B. Urbaszek

We analytically solve the {\it Non-Markovian} single electron spin dynamics due to hyperfine interaction with surrounding nuclei in a quantum dot. We use the equation-of-motion method assisted with a large field expansion, and find that…

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

In a quantum Hall ferromagnet, the spin polarization of the two-dimensional electron system can be dynamically transferred to nuclear spins in its vicinity through the hyperfine interaction. The resulting nuclear field typically acts back…

The effect of radiation polarization attended with the motion of spinning charge in the magnetic field could be viewed through the classical theory of self-interaction. The quantum expression for the polarization time follows from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. Lebedev

Dynamical magnetic and nuclear polarization in complex spin systems is discussed on the example of transfer of spin from exciton to the central spin of magnetic impurity in a quantum dot in the presence of a finite number of nuclear spins.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ramin M. Abolfath , Anna Trojnar , Bahman Roostaei , Thomas Brabec , Pawel Hawrylak

Magnetic field usually leads to a polarization of electron spins. It is shown that in a system of {\em strongly interacting} particles applying magnetic field may lead to an opposite effect -- depolarization of electron spins. Results of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Mikhailov , N. A. Savostianova

For spin-based quantum computation in semiconductors, dephasing of electron spins by a fluctuating background of nuclear spins is a main obstacle. Here we show that this nuclear background can be precisely controlled in generic quantum dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Sergej Markmann , Christian Reichl , Werner Wegscheider , Gian Salis

Hyperfine interactions with a nuclear spin environment fundamentally limit the coherence properties of confined electron spins in the solid-state. Here, we show that a quantum interference effect in optical absorption from two electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 Mena Issler , Eric Kessler , Geza Giedke , Susanne Yelin , Ignacio Cirac , Mikhail Lukin , Atac Imamoglu

The spin of an electron trapped in a quantum dot is a promising candidate implementation of a qubit for quantum information processing. We study the central spin problem of the effect of the hyperfine interaction between such an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-29 Gang Chen , Doron L. Bergman , Leon Balents

Electrical spin injection from Fe into Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As quantum well heterostructures is demonstrated in small (< 500 Oe) in-plane magnetic fields. The measurement is sensitive only to the component of the spin that precesses about the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Strand , B. D. Schultz , A. F. Isakovic , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

A hight degree of spin polarization is achieved for a Mn atom localized in a semiconductor quantum dot using quasi-resonant optical excitation at zero magnetic field. Optically created spin polarized carriers generate an energy splitting of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-18 C. Le Gall , L. Besombes , H. Boukari , R. Kolodka , H. Mariette , J. Cibert