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Time-resolved Kerr rotation experiments show that two kinds of spin modes exist in diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum wells: ͑i͒ strongly coupled electron-magnetic ion spin excitations and ͑ii͒ excitations of magnetic ion spin subsystem decoupled from electron spins. The coexistence of these two kinds of spin precession modes cannot be understood in terms of average spins but requires a description, which goes beyond the mean-field approximation.

We exploit the potential of the spin noise spectroscopy (SNS) for studies of nuclear spin dynamics in n-GaAs. The SNS experiments were performed on bulk n-type GaAs layers embedded into a high-finesse microcavity at negative detuning. In our experiments, nuclear spin polarisation initially prepared by optical pumping is monitored in real time via a shift of the peak position in the electron spin noise spectrum. We demonstrate that this shift is a direct measure of the Overhauser field acting on the electron spin. The dynamics of nuclear spin is shown to be strongly dependent on the electron concentration.