scholarly journals Coherent creation and destruction of orbital wavepackets in Si:P with electrical and optical read-out

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
K.L. Litvinenko ◽  
E.T. Bowyer ◽  
P.T. Greenland ◽  
N. Stavrias ◽  
Juerong Li ◽  
...  

Abstract The ability to control dynamics of quantum states by optical interference, and subsequent electrical read-out, is crucial for solid state quantum technologies. Ramsey interference has been successfully observed for spins in silicon and nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond, and for orbital motion in InAs quantum dots. Here we demonstrate terahertz optical excitation, manipulation and destruction via Ramsey interference of orbital wavepackets in Si:P with electrical read-out. We show milliradian control over the wavefunction phase for the two-level system formed by the 1s and 2p states. The results have been verified by all-optical echo detection methods, sensitive only to coherent excitations in the sample. The experiments open a route to exploitation of donors in silicon for atom trap physics, with concomitant potential for quantum computing schemes, which rely on orbital superpositions to, for example, gate the magnetic exchange interactions between impurities.

SPIN ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 1330001 ◽  
Author(s):  
BIVAS RANA ◽  
ANJAN BARMAN

Magnetic nanodot arrays are interesting systems for future applications in nanotechnology including patterned magnetic media, magnonic crystals, magnetic logic, sensors, STNOs and biomedical applications. All applications require the knowledge base of magnetization processes of magnetic nanodot arrays at various time and length scales. Here, we review the present status of experimental studies of picosecond precessional magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanodot arrays. We discuss the fabrication methods of magnetic nanodot arrays and excitation and detection methods of precessional dynamics by optical means. We further discuss the all-optical excitation and detection of precessional dynamics in Ni80Fe20 (permalloy) nanodot arrays with width between 200 nm and 50 nm and with interdot separation between 50 nm and 400 nm. A transition from strongly collective dynamics to completely isolated dynamics through various weakly collective regimes, variation of precession frequency and damping with the interdot separation, effects of dipolar and quadrupolar interdot interaction, effects of the variation of dot size on the dynamics of single elements and arrays, and anisotropy of collective dynamics have been thoroughly studied by experimental and micromagnetic simulation results. Finally, we discuss the future directions in the research on the dynamics of magnetic nanodot arrays.


Polyhedron ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 115088
Author(s):  
Azadeh Mehrani ◽  
Maurice G. Sorolla ◽  
Tatyana Makarenko ◽  
Allan J. Jacobson

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Dally ◽  
Daniel Phelan ◽  
Nicholas Bishop ◽  
Nirmal J. Ghimire ◽  
Jeffrey W. Lynn

Anisotropy and competing exchange interactions have emerged as two central ingredients needed for centrosymmetric materials to exhibit topological spin textures. Fe3Sn2 is thought to have these ingredients as well, as it has recently been discovered to host room temperature skyrmionic bubbles with an accompanying topological Hall effect. We present small-angle inelastic neutron scattering measurements that unambiguously show that Fe3Sn2 is an isotropic ferromagnet below TC≈660 K to at least 480 K—the lower temperature threshold of our experimental configuration. Fe3Sn2 is known to have competing magnetic exchange interactions, correlated electron behavior, weak magnetocrystalline anisotropy, and lattice (spatial) anisotropy; all of these features are thought to play a role in stabilizing skyrmions in centrosymmetric systems. Our results reveal that at the elevated temperatures measured, there is an absence of significant magnetocrystalline anisotropy and that the system behaves as a nearly ideal isotropic exchange interaction ferromagnet, with a spin stiffness D(T=480 K)=168 meV Å2, which extrapolates to a ground state spin stiffness D(T=0 K)=231 meV Å2.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5134-5142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron J. Scott ◽  
Julia Vallejo ◽  
Arup Sarkar ◽  
Lucy Smythe ◽  
E. Regincós Martí ◽  
...  

The tetrahedral [NiII4L6]8+ cage can reversibly bind paramagnetic MX41/2− guests, inducing magnetic exchange interactions between host and guest.


2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Calder ◽  
A. V. Haglund ◽  
A. I. Kolesnikov ◽  
D. Mandrus

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 6788-6801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Jung ◽  
Marin Puget ◽  
Olivier Cador ◽  
Kevin Bernot ◽  
Carmen J. Calzado ◽  
...  

1975 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2577-2578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent R. Mann ◽  
D. Michael. Duggan ◽  
David N. Hendrickson

2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. Johnston ◽  
R. J. McQueeney ◽  
B. Lake ◽  
A. Honecker ◽  
M. E. Zhitomirsky ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. S. Borisov ◽  
I. V. Maznichenko ◽  
D. Böttcher ◽  
S. Ostanin ◽  
A. Ernst ◽  
...  

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