Optical nuclear spin polarization in quantum dots

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/10/108506

Abstract

Hyperfine interaction between electron spin and randomly oriented nuclear spins is a key issue of electron coherence for quantum information/computation. We propose an efficient way to establish high polarization of nuclear spins and reduce the intrinsic nuclear spin fluctuations. Here, we polarize the nuclear spins in semiconductor quantum dot (QD) by the coherent population trapping (CPT) and the electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR) induced by optical fields and ac electric fields. By tuning the optical fields, we can obtain a powerful cooling background based on CPT for nuclear spin polarization. The EDSR can enhance the spin flip-flop rate which may increase the cooling efficiency. With the help of CPT and EDSR, an enhancement of 1300 times of the electron coherence time can be obtained after a 10-ns preparation time.

Keywords: nuclear spin polarization coherent population trapping electron dipole spin resonance

Received: 18 April 2016
Revised: 05 June 2016
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PACS:	85.75.-d	(Magnetoelectronics; spintronics: devices exploiting spin polarized transport or integrated magnetic fields)
	76.70.Fz	(Double nuclear magnetic resonance (DNMR), dynamical nuclear polarization)
	78.67.Hc	(Quantum dots)

Fund:

Project partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (Grant Nos. 11374039 and 11174042) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CB922204 and 2013CB632805).

Corresponding Authors: Ai-Xian Li, Wei Zhang
E-mail: liaixian0123@sina.com;zhang_wei@iapcm.ac.cn

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Ai-Xian Li(李爱仙), Su-Qing Duan(段素青), Wei Zhang(张伟) Optical nuclear spin polarization in quantum dots 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 108506

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