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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 18: Transport: Quantum Coherence and Quantum Information Systems - Theory (jointly with MA, HL)

MA 18.11: Talk

Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 12:15–12:30, HSZ 103

Non-equilibrium nuclear spin distributions in a periodically pulsed quantum dot — •Natalie Jäschke and Frithjof Anders — Technische Universität Dortmund, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik II, 44227 Dortmund

In pump-probe experiments single electron charged semiconductor quantum dots are subjected to periodic optical excitations. This mechanism generates electron and nuclear spin polarization. In the short time regime the decoherence of the electron spin polarization is governed by the hyperfine interaction with the nuclear spins. We aim for a theory that combines the effect of the periodic laser pump pulses and the nuclear spin bath on the electron spin polarization. Since the laser pulses occur on the shortest time scale of the system, and the electronic decay times are small compared to those of the nuclear spin bath, we treat the laser pumping quantum-mechanically using a Lindblad approach and keep the nuclear spins as frozen during that time. Then a classical simulation of the Overhauser field bridges the time until the next laser pulse. On the one hand we analyze the time dependence of the electron spin dynamics and on the other hand present data for the non-equilibrium steady state spectral distributions of the Overhauser field for the long time limit. For the electron spin dynamics a revival effect right before the next pulse is observed. The Overhauser field shows mode locking effects in the component parallel to the external magnetic field.