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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Magneto-optical Kerr effect tomography of an electron spin state in a semiconductor quantum dot

Yoshiaki Rikitake, Hiroshi Imamura, Hideo Kosaka

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose an magneto-optical Kerr effect tomography(MOKET) of an electron spin state in a semiconductor quantum dot. This method can measure the quantum spin coherence between spin up and down states.
DOI
10.1364/cleo.2009.jthe97

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