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Polarization entanglement visibility of photon pairs emitted by a quantum dot embedded in a microcavity

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the photon emission from a quantum dot embedded in a microcavity. Incoherent pumping of its excitons and biexciton provokes the emission of leaky and cavity modes. By solving a master equation we obtain the correlation functions required to compute the spectrum and the relative efficiency among the emission of pairs and single photons. A quantum regime appears for low pumping and large rate of emission. By means of a post-selection process, a two beams experiment with different linear polarizations could be performed producing a large polarization entanglement visibility precisely in the quantum regime.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409745,
  title  = {Polarization entanglement visibility of photon pairs emitted by a quantum dot embedded in a microcavity},
  author = {J. I. Perea and C. Tejedor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409745},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages and 6 figures