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We present a basic building block of a quantum network consisting of a quantum dot coupled to a source cavity, which in turn is coupled to a target cavity via a waveguide. The single photon emission from the high-Q/V source cavity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Englund , Andrei Faraon , Bingyang Zhang , Yoshihisa Yamamoto , Jelena Vuckovic

Scalable, reliable quantum light sources are essential for increasing quantum channel capacity and advancing quantum protocols based on photonic qubits. Although recent developments in solid-state quantum emitters have enabled the…

A practical source of high fidelity entangled photons is desirable for quantum information applications and exploring quantum physics. Semiconductor quantum dots have recently been shown to conveniently emit entangled light when driven…

Building a quantum internet requires efficient and reliable quantum hardware, from photonic sources to quantum repeaters and detectors, ideally operating at telecommunication wavelengths. Thanks to their high brightness and single-photon…

Solid-state quantum light sources offer a scalable pathway for interfacing stationary spin qubits with flying photonic qubits, forming the backbone of future quantum networks. Telecom-band spin-photonic qubits, operating in the 1260-1675 nm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Md Sakibul Islam , Kuldeep Singh , Yunhe Zhao , Nitesh Singh , Wayesh Qarony

Single-photon sources that emit photons at the same energy play a key role in the emerging concepts of quantum information, such as entanglement swapping, quantum teleportation and quantum networks. They can be realized in a variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-11 N. Akopian , R. Trotta , E. Zallo , S. Kumar , P. Atkinson , A. Rastelli , O. G. Schmidt , V. Zwiller

We propose using Quantum Dots as novel targets to probe sub-GeV dark matter-electron interactions. Quantum dots are nanocrystals of semiconducting material, which are commercially available, with gram-scale quantities suspended in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Carlos Blanco , Rouven Essig , Marivi Fernandez-Serra , Harikrishnan Ramani , Oren Slone

The possibility to generate and manipulate non-classical light using the tools of mature semiconductor technology carries great promise for the implementation of quantum communication science. This is indeed one of the main driving forces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Rinaldo Trotta , Armando Rastelli

Quantum technology has grown out of quantum information theory and now provides a valuable tool that researchers from numerous fields can add to their toolbox of research methods. To date, various systems have been exploited to promote the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-08 Gang Zhang , Yuan Cheng , Jyh-Pin Chou , Adam Gali

The first quantum technology, which harnesses uniquely quantum mechanical effects for its core operation, has arrived in the form of commercially available quantum key distribution systems that achieve enhanced security by encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-23 Jeremy L. O'Brien , Akira Furusawa , Jelena Vučković

The use of satellites to distribute entangled photon pairs (and single photons) provides a unique solution for long-distance quantum communication networks. This overcomes the principle limitations of Earth-bound technology, i.e. the narrow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Markus Aspelmeyer , Thomas Jennewein , Martin Pfennigbauer , Walter Leeb , Anton Zeilinger

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) provide an essential link between light and matter in emerging fields such as light-harvesting, all-solid-state quantum communication, and quantum computing. QDs are excellent single-photon sources and can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Mads Lykke Andersen , Søren Stobbe , Anders Søndberg Sørensen , Peter Lodahl

As single-photon sources become more mature and are used more often in quantum information, communications and measurement applications, their characterization becomes more important. Single-photon-like light is often characterized by its…

Quantum networks are distributed quantum many-body systems with tailored topology and controlled information exchange. They are the backbone of distributed quantum computing architectures and quantum communication. Here we present a…

A one-dimensional atom -- an atomic system coupled to a single optical mode -- is central for many applications in optical quantum technologies. Here we introduce an effective one-dimensional atom consisting of two interacting quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Ilan Shlesinger , Pascale Senellart , Loïc Lanco , Jean-Jacques Greffet

A quantum internet connects remote quantum processors that need interact and exchange quantum signals over a long distance through photonic channels. However, these quantum nodes are usually composed of quantum systems with emitted photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang , Irina Novikova , Chen Qian , Shengwang Du

Quantum dots are small conductive regions in a semiconductor, containing a variable number of electrons (N=1 to 1000) that occupy well defined discrete quantum states. They are often referred to as artificial atoms with the unique property…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. H. Oosterkamp , T. Fujisawa , W. G. van der Wiel , K. Ishibashi , R. V. Hijman , S. Tarucha , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Structured quantum light is crucial for high-dimensional quantum information processing, yet its direct generation from quantum emitters remains challenging due to their intrinsic locality and omnidirectional radiation. Metasurfaces have…

We propose a quantum computer structure based on coupled asymmetric single-electron quantum dots. Adjacent dots are strongly coupled by means of electric dipole-dipole interactions enabling rapid computation rates. Further, the asymmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. D. Sanders , K. W. Kim , W. C. Holton

We investigate the intensity correlation properties of single photons emitted from an optically excited single semiconductor quantum dot. The second order temporal coherence function of the photons emitted at various wavelengths is measured…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. V. Regelman , U. Mizrahi , D. Gershoni , E. Ehrenfreund , W. V. Schoenfeld , P. M. Petroff