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The polarization entanglement of photons emitted by semiconductor quantum dots is unavoidably limited by the spin fluctuations of the host lattice nuclei. To overcome this limitation, we develop a theory of entangled photon pair generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 V. N. Mantsevich , D. S. Smirnov , E. L. Ivchenko

The signature of coherent coupling between two quantum states is an anticrossing in their energies as one is swept through the other. In single semiconductor quantum dots containing an electron-hole pair the eigenstates form a two-level…

We theoretically model the electronic dynamics of a coupled quantum dot pair in a static electric field. We then investigate the possibility of polarization-entangled photon emission from the radiative cascade of the molecular biexciton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Cameron Jennings , Michael Scheibner

The generation of entangled photon pairs is highly useful for many types of quantum technologies. In this work an entangled photon pair generator that utilises the biexciton-exciton cascade in semiconductor quantum dots is described on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simon Sekavčnik , Paul Kohl , Janis Nötzel

A semiconductor based scheme has been proposed for generating entangled photon pairs from the radiative decay of an electrically-pumped biexciton in a quantum dot. Symmetric dots produce polarisation entanglement, but…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 T. M. Stace , G. J. Milburn , C. H. W. Barnes

The two electrons of a Cooper pair in a conventional superconductor form a singlet and therefore a maximally entangled state. Recently, it was demonstrated that the two particles can be extracted from the superconductor into two spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 J. Schindele , A. Baumgartner , C. Schönenberger

Entangled photon pairs are essential for a multitude of photonic quantum applications. To date, the best performing solid-state quantum emitters of entangled photons are semiconductor quantum dots operated around liquid-helium temperatures.…

The dynamics of the entanglement for coherent excitonic states in the system of two coupled large semiconductor quantum dots ($R/a_{B}\gg 1$) mediated by a single-mode cavity field is investigated. Maximally entangled coherent excitonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu-xi Liu , S. K. Ozdemir , Masato Koashi , Nobuyuki Imoto

The quantum state of the emitted light from the cascade recombination of a biexciton in a quantum dot is theoretically investigated including exciton fine structure splitting (FSS) and electron-nuclear spin hyperfine interactions. In an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Erik Welander , Julia Hildmann , Guido Burkard

We theoretically investigate the production of polarization-entangled photons through the biexciton cascade decay in a single semiconductor quantum dot. To accomplish a high degree of entanglement, despite the exciton finestructure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-05 Gernot Pfanner , Marek Seliger , Ulrich Hohenester

We theoretically investigate the optical response of a quantum dot, embedded in a microcavity and incoherently excited by pulsed pumping. The exciton and biexciton transition are off-resonantly coupled with the left- and right-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. I. Perea , F. Troiani , C. Tejedor

We study the effect of the exciton fine-structure splitting on the polarisation-entanglement of photon pairs produced by the biexciton cascade in a single quantum dot. The entanglement is found to persist despite separations between the…

Semiconductor quantum dots are promising sources for polarization-entangled photons. As an alternative to the usual cascaded biexciton-exciton emission, direct two-photon emission from the biexciton can be used. With a high-quality optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Dirk Heinze , Artur Zrenner , Stefan Schumacher

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as a premier solid-state platform for the deterministic generation of nonclassical light, offering a compelling pathway toward scalable quantum photonic systems. While single-photon emission…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Xingling Pan , Zhiming Chen , Yingtao Ding , Weibo Gao , Fei Ding , Zhaogang Dong

We studied the quantum correlation between the photon pairs generated by biexciton cascade decays of self-assembled quantum dots, and determined the temperature behavior associated with so-called sudden change of the quantum correlation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Yang Zou , Chuan-Feng Li , Jin-Shi Xu , Rong-Chun Ge , Guang-Can Guo

We analyse the entanglement properties of deterministic path-entangled photonic states generated by coupling the emission of a quantum-dot biexciton cascade to a chiral nanophotonic waveguide, as implemented by {\O}stfeldt et al. [PRX…

We observe dressed states and quantum interference effects in a strongly driven three-level quantum dot ladder system. The effect of a strong coupling field on one dipole transition is measured by a weak probe field on the second dipole…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 B. D. Gerardot , D. Brunner , P. A. Dalgarno , K. Karrai , A. Badolato , P. M. Petroff , R. J. Warburton

Biexciton cascade process in self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) provides an ideal system for deterministic entangled photon pair source, which is essential in quantum information science. The entangled photon pairs have recently be realized…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-02 Jianping Wang , Ming Gong , G-C Guo , Lixin He

Generation of polarization-entangled photons from quantum dots via the biexciton-exciton recombination cascade is complicated by the presence of an energy spitting between the intermediate excitonic levels, which severely degrades the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Simone Varo , Gediminas Juska , Emanuele Pelucchi

The biexciton cascade in a quantum dot can be used to generate entangled-photon pairs rapidly and deterministically (on demand). However, due to a large fine-structure splitting between intermediate exciton energy levels, which-path…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 W. A. Coish , J. M. Gambetta