Nuclear feedback in a single electron-charged quantum dot under pulsed optical control

Thaddeus D. Ladd; David Press; Kristiaan De Greve; Peter L. McMahon; Benedikt Friess; Christian Schneider; Martin Kamp; Sven Höfling; Alfred Forchel; Yoshihisa Yamamoto

doi:10.1117/12.873978

12 February 2011 Nuclear feedback in a single electron-charged quantum dot under pulsed optical control

Thaddeus D. Ladd, David Press, Kristiaan De Greve, Peter L. McMahon, Benedikt Friess, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Alfred Forchel, Yoshihisa Yamamoto

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Proceedings Volume 7948, Advances in Photonics of Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication IV; 79480U (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873978
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Electron spins in quantum dots under coherent control exhibit a number of novel feedback processes. Here, we present experimental and theoretical evidence of a feedback process between nuclear spins and a single electron spin in a single charged InAs quantum dot, controlled by the coherently modified probability of exciting a trion state. We present a mathematical model describing competition between optical nuclear pumping and nuclear spin-diffusion inside the quantum dot. The model correctly postdicts the observation of a hysteretic sawtooth pattern in the free-induction-decay of the single electron spin, hysteresis while scanning a narrow-band laser through the quantum dot's optical resonance frequency, and non-sinusoidal fringes in the spin echo. Both the coherent electron-spin rotations, implemented with off-resonant ultrafast laser pulses, and the resonant narrowband optical pumping for spin initialization interspersed between ultrafast pulses, play a role in the observed behavior. This effect allows dynamic tuning of the electron Larmor frequency to a value determined by the pulse timing, potentially allowing more complex coherent control operations.

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Thaddeus D. Ladd, David Press, Kristiaan De Greve, Peter L. McMahon, Benedikt Friess, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Alfred Forchel, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto "Nuclear feedback in a single electron-charged quantum dot under pulsed optical control", Proc. SPIE 7948, Advances in Photonics of Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication IV, 79480U (12 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873978

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