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宽 CdTe 量子阱中由施主束缚电子和自由电子介导的核自旋弛豫

Nuclear spin relaxation mediated by donor-bound and free electrons in wide CdTe quantum wells

Boris F. Gribakin, Valentina M. Litvyak, Mladen Kotur, Regis André, Maria Vladimirova, Dmitri R. Yakovlev, Kirill V. Kavokin

AI总结:

本文研究宽 CdTe 量子阱中核自旋弛豫机制,揭示 CdTe/(Cd,Zn)Te 中施主束缚电子导致零场快速弛豫而磁场增大时因扩散势垒减慢,CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te 中残余电子气主导弛豫,并实现亚微开尔文核自旋冷却。

摘要:

利用结合光泵浦和基于 Hanle 效应的探测的多阶段技术,研究了 CdTe/(Cd,Zn)Te 和 CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te 量子阱(QW)中的核自旋系统。样品在零磁场和弱磁场中表现出截然不同的核自旋动力学。在 CdTe/(Cd,Zn)Te 中,发现核自旋弛豫时间随磁场强烈增加,从零磁场下的 3 秒增长到 25 G 磁场下的数十秒。在 CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te 中,弛豫慢一个数量级,并且在至少高达 70 G 的范围内与磁场无关。这些差异归因于在这些量子阱中核自旋弛豫由不同种类的常驻电子介导。在 CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te 中,被束缚在量子阱中的残余电子气在很大程度上决定了弛豫动力学。在 CdTe/(Cd,Zn)Te 中,零磁场下的快速弛豫源于与局域施主束缚电子的相互作用。当外部磁场超过局部核场时,在中性施主周围形成核自旋扩散势垒,该局部核场在 CdTe 中约为 $B_L\approx$0.4 G。这抑制了核自旋向施主的扩散,从而减缓了弛豫。这些发现得到了理论建模的支持。特别是,我们表明扩散势垒的形成得益于 CdTe 特有的几个特征:(i)大的施主结合能(约 10 meV),(ii)磁性同位素的低丰度(只有约 30% 的原子核具有非零自旋),以及(iii)原子核之间不存在核电四极相互作用。后两个特性也有利于通过光泵浦和随后的绝热退磁实现核自旋冷却。在非优化条件下,我们在两个样品中都达到了亚微开尔文的核自旋温度,低于之前在 GaAs 中获得的所有结果。

英文摘要:

The nuclear spin systems in CdTe/(Cd,Zn)Te and CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te quantum wells (QW) are studied using a multistage technique combining optical pumping and Hanle effect-based detection. The samples demonstrate drastically different nuclear spin dynamics in zero and weak magnetic fields. In CdTe/(Cd,Zn)Te, the nuclear spin relaxation time is found to strongly increase with the magnetic field, growing from 3 s in zero field to tens of seconds in a field of 25 G. In CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te the relaxation is an order of magnitude slower, and it is field-independent up to at least 70 G. The differences are attributed to the nuclear spin relaxation being mediated by different kinds of resident electrons in these QWs. In CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te, a residual electron gas trapped in the QW largely determines the relaxation dynamics. In CdTe/(Cd,Zn)Te, the fast relaxation in zero field is due to interaction with localized donor-bound electrons. Nuclear spin diffusion barriers form around neutral donors when the external magnetic field exceeds the local nuclear field, which is about $B_L\approx$0.4 G in CdTe. This inhibits nuclear spin diffusion towards the donors, slowing down relaxation. These findings are supported by theoretical modeling. In particular, we show that the formation of the diffusion barrier is made possible by several features specific to CdTe: (i) the large donor binding energy (about 10 meV), (ii) the low abundance of magnetic isotopes (only $\approx$30 % of nuclei have nonzero spin), and (iii) the absence of nuclear quadrupole interactions between nuclei. The two latter properties are also favorable to nuclear spin cooling via optical pumping followed by adiabatic demagnetization. Under non-optimized conditions we have reached sub-microkelvin nuclear spin temperatures in both samples, lower than all previous results obtained in GaAs.

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