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Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Sep 16;89(12):127201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.127201. Epub 2002 Aug 27.

Monitoring statistical magnetic fluctuations on the nanometer scale.

Physical review letters

G Bacher, A A Maksimov, H Schömig, V D Kulakovskii, M K Welsch, A Forchel, P S Dorozhkin, A V Chernenko, S Lee, M Dobrowolska, J K Furdyna

Affiliations

  1. Technische Physik, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany. [email protected]

PMID: 12225119 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.127201

Abstract

Statistical fluctuations of the magnetization are measured on the nanometer scale. As the experimental monitor we use the characteristic photoluminescence signal of a single electron-hole pair confined in one magnetic semiconductor quantum dot, which sensitively depends on the alignment of the magnetic ion spins. Quantitative access to statistical magnetic fluctuations is obtained by analyzing the linewidth broadening of the single dot emission. Our all-optical technique allows us to address a magnetic moment of only approximately equal 100 micro(B) and to resolve statistical changes on the order of a few micro(B).

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