Spatial Imaging of Magnetically Patterned Nuclear Spins in GaAs

Details Spatial Imaging of Magnetically Patterned Nuclear Spins in GaAs Spatial Imaging of Magnetically Patterned Nuclear Spins in GaAs

2003-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303448v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Submitted to Physical Review B Rapid Communications. 18 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.041307

We exploit ferromagnetic imprinting to create complex laterally defined regions of nuclear spin polarization in lithographically patterned MnAs/GaAs epilayers grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). A time-resolved Kerr rotation microscope with approximately 1 micron spatial resolution uses electron spin precession to directly image the GaAs nuclear polarization. These measurements indicate that the polarization varies from a maximum under magnetic mesas to zero several microns from the mesa perimeter, resulting in large (10**4 T/m) effective field gradients. The results reveal a flexible scheme for lateral engineering of spin-dependent energy landscapes in the solid state.

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