Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2009-07-22
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
15 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
A single confined spin interacting with a solid-state environment has emerged as one of the fundamental paradigms of mesoscopic physics. In contrast to standard quantum optical systems, decoherence that stems from these interactions can in general not be treated using the Born-Markov approximation at low temperatures. Here we study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a single-spin in a semiconductor quantum dot adjacent to a fermionic reservoir and show how the dynamics can be revealed in detail in an optical absorption experiment. We show that the highly asymmetrical optical absorption lineshape of the resulting Kondo exciton consists of three distinct frequency domains, corresponding to short, intermediate and long times after the initial excitation, which are in turn described by the three fixed points of the single-impurity Anderson Hamiltonian. The zero-temperature power-law singularity dominating the lineshape is linked to dynamically generated Kondo correlations in the photo-excited state. We show that this power-law singularity is tunable with gate voltage and magnetic field, and universal.
Braunecker Bernd
Claassen Martin
Delft Jan von
Glazman Leonid
Govorov A.
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