Coherent transfer of light polarization to electron spins in a semiconductor

Abstract

We demonstrate that the superposition of light polarization states is coherently transferred to electron spins in a semiconductor quantum well. By using time-resolved Kerr rotation we observe the initial phase of Larmor precession of electron spins whose coherence is transferred from light. To break the electron-hole spin entanglement, we utilized the big discrepancy between the transverse g-factors of electrons and light holes. The result encourages us to make a quantum media converter between flying photon qubits and stationary electron spin qubits in semiconductors.

4 pages. Submitted to Physical Review Letters

References in corpus (5)

• Driven coherent oscillations of a single electron spin in a quantum dot
• Quantum teleportation between light and matter
• Entangled Photon Pairs from Semiconductor Quantum Dots
• Stimulated and spontaneous optical generation of electron spin coherence in charged GaAs quantum dots
• Optical control of spin coherence in singly charged (In,Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Electrical measurement of a two-electron spin state in a double quantum dot
• Proposals of nuclear spin quantum memory in group IV elemental and II-VI semiconductors
• Photon-arrival detector with a controlled phase flip operation between a photon and a V-type atomic system