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Quantum modulation of a coherent state wavepacket with a single electron spin

Quantum Physics 2022-07-13 v1

Abstract

The interaction of quantum objects lies at the heart of fundamental quantum physics and is key to a wide range of quantum information technologies. Photon-quantum-emitter interactions are among the most widely studied. Two-qubit interactions are generally simplified into two quantum objects in static well-defined states . In this work we explore a fundamentally new dynamic type of spin-photon interaction. We demonstrate modulation of a coherent narrowband wavepacket with another truly quantum object, a quantum dot with ground state spin degree of freedom. What results is a quantum modulation of the wavepacket phase (either 0 or {\pi} but no values in between), a new quantum state of light that cannot be described classically.

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@article{arxiv.2207.05596,
  title  = {Quantum modulation of a coherent state wavepacket with a single electron spin},
  author = {P. Androvitsaneas and A. B. Young and T. Nutz and J. M. Lennon and S. Mister and C. Schneider and M. Kamp and S. Höfling and D. P. S. McCutcheon and E. Harbord and J. G. Rarity and R. Oulton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.05596},
  year   = {2022}
}

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