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Measurement of Coherence Decay in GaMnAs Using Femtosecond Four-wave Mixing
Published on: December 3, 2013
Long-time correlation in non-Markovian dephasing of an exciton-phonon system in InAs quantum dots
H Tahara1, Y Ogawa1, F Minami1
1Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-Okayama 2-12-1, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.
Abstract:
We have observed a time-correlated frequency fluctuation in non-Markovian dephasing of excitons in InAs quantum dots using a six-wave mixing technique. In this measurement, the arrival times of the excitation pulses were controlled to eliminate the influence of Markovian dephasing and to measure the pure non-Markovian behavior. The experimental result shows that the time correlation of the frequency fluctuation due to exciton-phonon interactions was maintained in the quantum dots for over 10 ps. This long-time correlation is caused by the modification of the phonon coupling distribution.
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