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Robust entangled photon generation enabled by single-shot Floquet driving

Quantum Physics 2025-05-07 v3 Optics

Abstract

Quantum emitters driven by resonant two-photon excitation are a leading source for deterministically generated entangled photon pairs, essential for scalable photonic quantum technologies. However, conventional resonant schemes are highly sensitive to laser power fluctuations and pose additional experimental challenges for emitters with small biexciton binding energies. Here, we demonstrate how biexciton preparation schemes with significantly improved robustness and reduced laser filtering requirements can be identified using a novel design principle beyond resonant and adiabatic driving: ultrafast single-shot Floquet driving. This is achieved by employing two strongly and symmetrically detuned dichromatic pulses, whose superposition generates a stroboscopic Hamiltonian that enables direct coupling between ground and biexciton states. Moreover, a pulse delay serves as a tuning knob, introducing an effective magnetic field that concentrates the Bloch sphere trajectory at the biexciton state for a wide range of parameters, making biexciton preparation particularly robust. Experimentally, we achieve a biexciton occupation exceeding 96% and preserve photon-pair entanglement with a fidelity of 93.4%. Our scheme highlights the great impact of Floquet-engineered multicolour excitation protocols for on-demand quantum light sources.

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@article{arxiv.2504.02753,
  title  = {Robust entangled photon generation enabled by single-shot Floquet driving},
  author = {Jun-Yong Yan and Paul C. A. Hagen and Hans-Georg Babin and Wei E. I. Sha and Andreas D. Wieck and Arne Ludwig and Chao-Yuan Jin and Vollrath M. Axt and Da-Wei Wang and Moritz Cygorek and Feng Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02753},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Manuscript with 10 pages and 4 figures plus Supplementary Information comprising 8 pages and 7 figures

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