Optically monitored nuclear spin dynamics in individual GaAs quantum dots grown by droplet epitaxy
arXiv:0806.4836 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.78.205325
Abstract
We report optical orientation experiments in individual, strain free GaAs quantum dots in AlGaAs grown by droplet epitaxy. Circularly polarized optical excitation yields strong circular polarization of the resulting photoluminescence at 4K. Optical injection of spin polarized electrons into a dot gives rise to dynamical nuclear polarization that considerably changes the exciton Zeeman splitting (Overhauser shift). We show that the created nuclear polarization is bistable and present a direct measurement of the build-up time of the nuclear polarization in a single GaAs dot in the order of one second.
7 pages, 3 figures
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