Dynamics of a Mn spin coupled to a single hole confined in a quantum dot

Abstract

Using the emission of the positively charged exciton as a probe, we analyze the dynamics of the optical pumping and the dynamics of the relaxation of a Mn spin exchange-coupled with a confined hole spin in a II-VI semiconductor quantum dot. The hole-Mn spin can be efficiently initialized in a few tens of $ns$ under optical injection of spin polarized carriers. We show that this optical pumping process and its dynamics are controlled by electron-Mn flip-flops within the positively charged exciton-Mn complex. The pumping mechanism and its magnetic field dependence are theoretically described by a model including the dynamics of the electron-Mn complex in the excited state and the dynamics of the hole-Mn complex in the ground state of the positively charged quantum dot. We measure at zero magnetic field a spin relaxation time of the hole-Mn spin in the $\mu s$ range or shorter. This hole-Mn spin relaxation is induced by the presence of valence band mixing in self-assembled quantum dots.

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