Author: ["Mete Atatüre"," Jan Dreiser","Antonio Badolato","Atac Imamoglu"]
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Abstract
The ability to read out the state of a single confined spin lies at the heart of solid-state quantum-information processing1. Although spin measurements using Faraday rotation of light polarization have been implemented in semiconductor spin ensembles2,3,4, single-spin read-out has only been achieved using transport measurements5,6. Here, we demonstrate an all-optical dispersive measurement of the time-averaged spin state of a single electron in a quantum dot. We obtain information on the spin state through conditional Faraday rotation of a spectrally detuned laser, induced by the polarization- and spin-selective trion (charged quantum dot) transitions. To assess the sensitivity of the technique, we use an independent resonant laser for spin-state preparation7. We infer that there are ∼10 spin-flip Raman scattering events (that is, back-action) within our measurement timescale. Straightforward improvements such as incorporating solid-immersion lenses8,9 and higher efficiency detectors should allow for back-action-evading spin measurements, without the need for a cavity.Cite this article
Atatüre, M., Dreiser, ., Badolato, A. et al. Observation of Faraday rotation from a single confined spin. Nature Phys 3, 101–106 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys521 