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arXiv:1907.12811 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Microscopic dynamics of electron hopping in a semiconductor quantum well probed by spin-dependent photon echoes

Alexander N. Kosarev, S. V. Poltavtsev, L. E. Golub, Михаил Михайлович Глазов, M. Salewski, Nikolai V. Kozyrev, Evgeny A. Zhukov, Dmitri R. Yakovlev, G. Karczewski, S. Chusnutdinow, T. Wójtowicz, Ilya A. Akimov, M. Bayer

Published Sep 4, 2019• 13 citations
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Abstract

Spin-dependent photon echoes in combination with pump-probe Kerr rotation are used to study the microscopic electron spin transport in a CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te quantum well in the hopping regime. We demonstrate that, independent of the particular spin relaxation mechanism, the hopping of resident electrons leads to a shortening of the photon echo decay time, while the transverse spin relaxation time evaluated from pump-probe transients increases due to motional narrowing of spin dynamics in the fluctuating effective magnetic field of the lattice nuclei.

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10.1103/physrevb.100.121401

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