We analyze and interpret recent optical experiments with semiconductor quantum dots. We derive a quantitative relation between the amount of information transferred into the environment and the optical polarization that may be observed in a spectroscopy experiment.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0504135,
title = {"Which path" decoherence in quantum dot experiments},
author = {K. Roszak and P. Machnikowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0504135},
year = {2007}
}
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Final version (moderate modifications). To appear in Phys. Lett. A