Optically induced rotation of a quantum dot exciton spin

Details Optically induced rotation of a quantum dot exciton spin Optically induced rotation of a quantum dot exciton spin

2011-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/1107.4783v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.087401

We demonstrate control over the spin state of a semiconductor quantum dot exciton using a polarized picosecond laser pulse slightly detuned from a biexciton resonance. The control pulse follows an earlier pulse, which generates an exciton and initializes its spin state as a coherent superposition of its two non-degenerate eigenstates. The control pulse preferentially couples one component of the exciton state to the biexciton state, thereby rotating the exciton's spin direction. We detect the rotation by measuring the polarization of the exciton spectral line as a function of the time-difference between the two pulses. We show experimentally and theoretically how the angle of rotation depends on the detuning of the second pulse from the biexciton resonance.

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