Spin and Orbital Quantization of Electronic States as Origins of Second Harmonic Generation in Semiconductors

I. Sänger, D. R. Yakovlev, R. V. Pisarev, V. V. Pavlov, M. Bayer, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, and J. Kossut
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117211 – Published 24 March 2006

Abstract

Basically different mechanisms of optical second harmonic generation (SHG) in semiconductors, induced by an external magnetic field H, have been identified experimentally by studying the diluted magnetic semiconductor (Cd,Mn)Te. For paramagnetic (Cd,Mn)Te the SHG response is governed by spin quantization of electronic states, in contrast with diamagnetic CdTe with its dominating orbital quantization. The mechanisms can be identified by the distinct magnetic field dependence of the SHG intensity which scales with the spin splitting in the paramagnetic case as compared to the H2 dependence observed for the diamagnetic case.

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  • Received 15 November 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.117211

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

I. Sänger1, D. R. Yakovlev1,2, R. V. Pisarev2, V. V. Pavlov2, M. Bayer1, G. Karczewski3, T. Wojtowicz3, and J. Kossut3

  • 1Experimentelle Physik II, Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
  • 2A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 3Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-02668 Warsaw, Poland

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Vol. 96, Iss. 11 — 24 March 2006

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