Measurement of the Knight field and local nuclear dipole-dipole field in an InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot ensemble

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Auer, T ^a   Oulton, R ^a,d   Bauschulte, A ^a   Yakovlev, D R ^a,e   Bayer, M ^a   Verbin, S Yu ^b   Cherbunin, R V ^b   Reuter, D ^c   Wieck, A D ^c  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 77954734084     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205303     Document Type: Article

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