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Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 14 Story 2 - 26/7/2011

Single-electron spin dynamics

(a) Characteristic Kerr rotation feature indicating a single spin-polarized electron. (b) Single spin precession in a magnetic field. Kerr rotation amplitude refers to the height of the feature in (a). (c) Single electron spin rotation as a function of intensity of the control pulse. Adapted from Nat. Phys. 3, 770 (2007).
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Single-electron spin dynamics. (a) Characteristic Kerr rotation feature indicating a single spin-polarized electron. (b) Single spin precession in a magnetic field. Kerr rotation amplitude refers to the height of the feature in (a). (c) Single electron spin rotation as a function of intensity of the control pulse. Adapted from Nat. Phys. <b>3</b>, 770 (2007).