Energy-time entanglement from a monolithically integrated quantum dot on silicon
Abstract
Scalable quantum photonic technologies require deterministic sources of entangled photons that are compatible with established semiconductor manufacturing platforms. While self-assembled III--V semiconductor quantum dots are among the most promising sources of on-demand entanglement generation, their integration with silicon-based architectures remains a central challenge. Here, we demonstrate energy--time entanglement from a single InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot monolithically grown on a silicon substrate. Under coherent two-photon excitation, we achieve coherent control of the biexciton--exciton cascade, evidenced by Rabi oscillations and dressed-state formation. Using a four-channel Franson interferometer, we observe phase-dependent two-photon interference with visibilities up to for an 80 ps integration window (and for a 1600 ps window), approaching the threshold for Bell inequality violation at short time scales. These results establish monolithically integrated III--V-on-silicon quantum dots as promising sources of energy--time entangled photons for scalable quantum photonic technologies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2606.31775,
title = {Energy-time entanglement from a monolithically integrated quantum dot on silicon},
author = {Marcel Hohn and Imad Limame and Peter Ludewig and Chirag C. Palekar and Aris Koulas-Simos and Kerstin Volz and Stephan Reitzenstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.31775},
year = {2026}
}