Optically monitored nuclear spin dynamics in individual GaAs quantum dots grown by droplet epitaxy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Belhadj, Thomas ^a   Kuroda, Takashi ^a,b   Simon, Claire Marie ^a   Amand, Thierry ^a   Mano, Takaaki ^b   Sakoda, Kazuaki ^b   Koguchi, Nobuyuki ^c   Marie, Xavier ^a   Urbaszek, Bernhard ^a  

^a INSA   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

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EID: 57249111945     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.205325     Document Type: Article

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