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Circular Polarization Dynamics during Magnetic Polaron Formation in Type-II Magnetic Quantum Dots
(2020-06-11)
Barman, Biplob
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Pientka, James M.
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Murphy, Joseph R.
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Cartwright, Alexander N.
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Chou, Wu-Ching
We used time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy to study the circular polarization dynamics of magnetic polarons in type-II (Zn,Mn)Te/ZnSe quantum dots in the presence of an external magnetic field. We investigated the time evolution of the peak energy of the sigma(+) and sigma(-) circularly polarized photoluminescence components and of the circular polarization of the emitted light. We also observed that the value of circular polarization, at long delay times, increases with magnetic field. We found that this system exhibits unexpected characteristics, such as different time scales for the formation of the magnetic polaron, on the one hand, and the evolution of photoluminescence circular polarization, on the other hand. These results are discussed within the framework of a theoretical model developed to describe the dependence of magnetic susceptibility as a function of temperature.
Optical Control of Hole Wavefunction in Type-II Magnetic Quantum Dot Structures
(2019-10-24)
Zhang, Peiyao
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Norden, Tenzin
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Pientka, James M.
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Oszwaldowski, Rafal
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Najafi, Arman
Unlike the extensively studied, spatially direct, quantum dots (QDs) with type-I band alignment where both electrons and holes are confined in the QD, in ZnTe QDs embedded in a (Zn,Mn)Se matrix only the holes are confined in the QDs. This spatially indirect type-II system provides unexplored opportunities to control the magnetic interactions between the hole spins in the nonmagnetic QDs and the spins of the magnetic ions in the matrix. Photoluminescence (PL) was excited either with photons of energy 3.06 eV [above band gap of the (Zn,Mn)Se matrix] or with photons of energy 2.54 eV [below the (Zn,Mn)Se band gap]. In the presence of an external magnetic field, the saturation red shift of the PL peak under 2.54 eV excitation exhibits an up to three-fold increase compared to the shift observed with 3.06 eV excitation. This increase is attributed to multiple hole occupancy of the QDs and the resulting increased penetration of the hole wavefunction tail further into the (Zn,Mn)Se matrix. The proposed model is supported by calculations which include the hole-hole Coulomb interactions as well as the hole-Mn spin exchange interactions.