Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-02-17
Nature Materials, 10, 844 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
10.1038/nmat3102
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 recognized as a resource for intrinsic control of QD-based spin quantum bits. However, only static long-lived Overhauser fields could be used. Here we demonstrate fast redirection on the microsecond time-scale of Overhauser fields of the order of 0.5 T experienced by a single electron spin in an optically pumped GaAs quantum dot. This has been achieved using full coherent control of an ensemble of 10^3-10^4 optically polarized nuclear spins by sequences of short radio-frequency (rf) pulses. These results open the way to a new class of experiments using rf techniques to achieve highly-correlated nuclear spins in quantum dots, such as adiabatic demagnetization in the rotating frame leading to sub-micro K nuclear spin temperatures, rapid adiabatic passage, and spin squeezing.
Kavokin K. V.
Lema^itre A.
Makhonin M. N.
Ramsay A. J.
Senellart Pierre
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