Optical Cooling of Nuclear Spins in a CdTe/CdZnTe Quantum Well: The Impact of Kinetic Local Fields on Cooling Efficiency

V. M. Litvyak, P. S. Bazhin, R. André +1

The efficiency of optical cooling of nuclear spins in a CdTe/CdZnTe quantum well is investigated as a function of an external magnetic field. Our results confirm that there is inde…