{
  "id": "1012.1732",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2010-12-08T10:44:06.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-04-11T08:48:57.000Z",
  "title": "Optically erasing disorder in semiconductor microcavities with dynamic nuclear polarization",
  "authors": [
    "T. C. H. Liew",
    "V. Savona"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146404 (2011)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.146404",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "The mean squared value of the photonic disorder is found to be reduced by a factor of 100 in a typical GaAs based microcavity, when exposed to a circularly polarized continuous wave optical pump without any special spatial patterning. Resonant excitation of the cavity mode excites a spatially non-uniform distribution of spin-polarized electrons, which depends on the photonic disorder profile. Electrons transfer spin to nuclei via the hyperfine contact interaction, inducing a long-living Overhauser magnetic field able to modify the potential of exciton-polaritons.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2011-04-11T08:48:57.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "71.36.+c",
      "72.25.Fe",
      "75.75.-c",
      "78.67.De"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "dynamic nuclear polarization",
      "optically erasing disorder",
      "semiconductor microcavities",
      "continuous wave optical pump",
      "microcavity"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review Letters",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Apr",
      "volume": 106,
      "number": 14,
      "pages": 146404
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2011PhRvL.106n6404L"
    }
  }
}