Dynamics of coherent and incoherent spin polarizations in ensembles of quantum dots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Tartakovskii, A I ^a   Cahill, J ^a   Makhonin, M N ^a,b   Whittaker, D M ^a   Wells, J P R ^a   Fox, A M ^a   Mowbray, D J ^a   Skolnick, M S ^a   Groom, K M ^a   Steer, M J ^a   Hopkinson, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOT DENSITY; EXCITON EMISSION; EXCITON ENERGY; SPIN POLARIZATION;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EXCITONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; STABILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 69349107309     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.057401     Document Type: Article

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