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We report the direct observation of coupling between a single self-assembled InAs quantum dot and a wetting layer, based on strong diamagnetic shifts of many-body exciton states using magneto-photoluminescence spectroscopy. An extremely…

The strong-coupling regime of cavity-quantum-electrodynamics (cQED) represents light-matter interaction at the fully quantum level. Adding a single photon shifts the resonance frequencies, a profound nonlinearity. cQED is a test-bed of…

For semimetal nanowires with diameters smaller than a few tens of nanometers, a semimetal-to-semiconductor transition is observed as the emergence of an energy band gap resulting from quantum confinement. Quantum confinement in a semimetal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Alfonso Sanchez-Soares , James C. Greer

Quantum dots (QDs) made from semiconductors are among the most promising platforms for the developments of quantum computing and simulation chips, and have advantages over other platforms in high density integration and in compatibility to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 Jingwei Mu , Shaoyun Huang , Zhi-Hai Liu , Weijie Li , Ji-Yin Wang , Dong Pan , Guang-Yao Huang , Yuanjie Chen , Jianhua Zhao , H. Q. Xu

The energy levels and optical transitions of tetrahedral core/shell InP/ZnSe quantum dots (QDs) are investigated by means of multi-band k$\cdot$p theory. Despite the $\overline{T}_d$ symmetry relaxing spherical selection rules, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Josep Planelles , Juan I. Climente

We report on growth of InP-InAs core-shell nanowires and demonstration of the formation of single quantum structures, which show Coulomb blockade effect, over entire lengths of the nanowires. The core-shell nanowires are grown by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 D. J. O. Göransson , M. Heurlin , B. Dalelkhan , S. Abay , M. E. Messing , V. F. Maisi , M. T. Borgström , H. Q. Xu

We design a system with a binary suspension of colloids and a surface that triggers the self-assembly of crystallites with a finite thickness. The proposed design allows controlling the number of layers forming the aggregate and constrains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-05 Akshaya Kumar Jena , Aashima Aashima , Pritam Kumar Jana , Bortolo Matteo Mognetti

We realize a superconductor-coupled quantum dot (QD) in an InSb nanosheet, a 2D platform promising for studies of topological superconductivity. The device consists of a superconductor-QD-superconductor junction, where a bottom bilayer gate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-10 Xingjun Wu , Ji-Yin Wang , Haitian Su , Han Gao , Shili Yan , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , Po Zhang , H. Q. Xu

Quantum dots embedded in semiconductor photonic nanowires (NW-QDs) can deterministically produce single-photons and entangled photon pairs at high repetition rates. These photons can be efficiently coupled from the photonic nanowire into…

Topological electronic phases exist in a variety of naturally occurring materials but can also be created artificially. We used a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope to create dimerized chains of identical quantum dots on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Van Dong Pham , Yi Pan , Steven C. Erwin , Felix von Oppen , Kiyoshi Kanisawa , Stefan Fölsch

We develop an engineered microwave environment for coupling high Q superconducting resonators to quantum dots using a multilayer fabrication stack for the dot control wiring. Analytic and numerical models are presented to understand how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Nathan Holman , J. P. Dodson , L. F. Edge , S. N. Coppersmith , M. Friesen , R. McDermott , M. A. Eriksson

Intermittent photoluminescence of colloidal core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals of spherical and branched shape was studied under CW-laser excitation. Luminescent multichannel registration system was applied for the fluorescence detection…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-13 A. G. Vitukhnovsky , M. M. Kovalev , V. V. Lidsky , E. M. Khokhlov

Semiconductor-based superconducting qubits offer a versatile platform for studying hybrid quantum devices in circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) architecture. Most of these cQED experiments utilize coplanar waveguides, where the…

Quantum dot (QD) solids are being widely exploited as a solution-processable technology to develop photovoltaic, light-emission, and photo-detection devices. Charge transport in these materials is the result of a compromise between…

In this article we review the thermoelectric properties of three terminal devices with Coulomb coupled quantum dots (QDs) as observed in recent experiments [1,2]. The system we consider consists of two Coulomb-blockade QDs one of which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Holger Thierschmann , Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We observe two-fold shell filling in the spectra of closed one-dimensional quantum dots formed in single-wall carbon nanotubes. Its signatures include a bimodal distribution of addition energies, correlations in the excitation spectra for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 David H. Cobden , Jesper Nygard

The nonlinear thermoelectric properties of serially coupled quantum dots (SCQDs) embedded in a nanowire connected to metallic electrodes are theoretically studied in the Coulomb blockade regime. We demonstrate that the electron heat current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yen-Chun Tseng , David M T Kuo , Yia-chung Chang , Yan-Ting Lin

Quantum computing has emerged as a promising platform for simulating strongly correlated systems in chemistry, for which the standard quantum chemistry methods are either qualitatively inaccurate or too expensive. However, due to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Max Rossmannek , Fabijan Pavošević , Angel Rubio , Ivano Tavernelli

The implementation of a spin qubit in a quantum ring occupied by one or a few electrons is proposed. Quantum bit involves the Zeeman sublevels of the highest occupied orbital. Such a qubit can be initialized, addressed, manipulated, read…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Elzbieta Zipper , Marcin Kurpas , Janusz Sadowski , Maciej M. Maska

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED) provides strong light-matter interactions that can be used for manipulating and detecting quantum states. The interaction can be enhanced by increasing the resonator's impedance, while approaching the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Chaojing Lin , Kosei Teshima , Takafumi Akiho , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa