Optical Pumping of Quantum-Dot Nuclear Spins
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- 3 July 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 91 (1), 017402
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.91.017402
Abstract
An all-optical scheme to polarize nuclear spins in a single quantum dot is analyzed. The hyperfine interaction with randomly oriented nuclear spins presents a fundamental limit for electron spin coherence in a quantum dot; by cooling the nuclear spins, this decoherence mechanism could be suppressed. The proposed scheme is inspired by laser cooling methods of atomic physics and implements a "controlled Overhauser effect" in a zero-dimensional structureKeywords
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