Low temperature relaxation of excitons between polarization eigenstates in single interface fluctuation quantum dots is studied using copolarized and cross-polarized transient differential transmission spectroscopy. The measured spin relaxation times are on the order of ∼100 ps. Such a spin relaxation time is longer than the reported times for thin quantum wells, but considerably shorter than the predicted times for interface fluctuation quantum dots.

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