Spin echo of a single electron spin in a quantum dot
Abstract
We report a measurement of the spin-echo decay of a single electron spin confined in a semiconductor quantum dot. When we tip the spin in the transverse plane via a magnetic field burst, it dephases in 37 ns due to the Larmor precession around a random effective field from the nuclear spins in the host material. We reverse this dephasing to a large extent via a spin-echo pulse, and find a spin-echo decay time of about 0.5μs at 70 mT. These results are in the range of theoretical predictions of the electron spin coherence time governed by the electron-nuclear dynamics. © 2008 The American Physical Society.
Date Published
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
100
Issue
23
URL
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-45249099546&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevLett.100.236802&partnerID=40&md5=9dd6ac70af2b733c02beabd1d53ba11b
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.236802
Research Area
Group (Lab)
Katja Nowack Group