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We demonstrate full suppression of dephasing tied to deformation potential coupling of confined electrons to longitunidal acoustic (LA) phonons in optical control experiments on large semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) with emission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 A. Ramachandran , G. R. Wilbur , S. O'Neal , D. G. Deppe , K. C. Hall

We theoretically investigate the production of polarization-entangled photons through the biexciton cascade decay in a single semiconductor quantum dot. In the intermediate state the entanglement is encoded in the polarizations of the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ulrich Hohenester , Gernot Pfanner , Marek Seliger

Qubits, the quantum mechanical bits required for quantum computing, must retain their fragile quantum states over long periods of time. In many types of electron spin qubits, the primary source of decoherence is the interaction between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 Hendrik Bluhm , Sandra Foletti , Izhar Neder , Mark Rudner , Diana Mahalu , Vladimir Umansky , Amir Yacoby

The relaxation of electrons in quantum dots via phonon emission is hindered by the discrete nature of the dot levels (phonon bottleneck). In order to clarify the issue theoretically we consider a system of $N$ discrete fermionic states (dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Stauber , R. Zimmermann , H. Castella

Heterostructures of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host long-lived, tunable excitons, making them intriguing candidates for material-based quantum information applications. Light absorption in these systems induces a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Tomer Amit , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

We probe acoustic phonon mediated relaxation between tunnel coupled exciton states in an individual quantum dot molecule in which the inter-dot quantum coupling and energy separation between exciton states is continuously tuned using static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-10 T. Nakaoka , H. J. Krenner , E. C. Clark , M. Sabathil , M. Bichler , Y. Arakawa , G. Abstreiter , J. J. Finley

We study decoherence of a field-driven qubit in the presence of environmental noises. For a general qubit, we find that driving, whether on-resonance or off-resonance, alters the qubit decoherence rates (including dissipation and pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Jun Jing , Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

Coherence transfer is a multi-disciplinary topic of interest, including chemistry, biology and physics. In quantum technologies, achieving non-local coherent coupling between solid-state qubits is of the utmost importance. Here, we…

The properties of excitons, or correlated electron-hole pairs, are of paramount importance to optoelectronic applications of materials. A central component of exciton physics is the electron-hole interaction, which is commonly treated as…

The interaction of a quantum system with its environment limits its coherence time. This, in particular, restricts the utility of qubits in quantum information processing applications. In this paper, we show that the decoherence of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 L. M. J. Hall , L. S. Sirkina , A. Morreau , W. Langbein , E. A. Muljarov

The energy transport of acoustic phonons generated by the optical excitation of a quantum dot as well as the coherence properties of these phonons are studied theoretically both for the case of a pulsed excitation and for a continuous wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 D. Wigger , S. Lüker , D. E. Reiter , V. M. Axt , P. Machnikowski , T. Kuhn

Recently, longitudinal acoustic phonons have been identified as the main source of the intensity damping observed in Rabi rotation measurements of the ground-state exciton of a single InAs/GaAs quantum dot. Here we report experiments of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 A. J. Ramsay , T. M. Godden , S. J. Boyle , E. M. Gauger , A. Nazir , B. W. Lovett , Achanta Venu Gopal , A. M. Fox , M. S. Skolnick

High degree of preservation of spin states during energy relaxation processes mediated by optical phonons is demonstrated in a single quantum dot. Optical-phonon resonance and relevant suppression of spin relaxation are clearly identified…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 H. Kumano , H. Kobayashi , S. Ekuni , Y. Hayashi , M. Jo , H. Sasakura , S. Adachi , S. Muto , I. Suemune

Acoustic control and coupling of quantum systems via phonons can enable miniaturized quantum technology devices for on-chip integration. Optically active quantum dots (QDs) are essential for such platforms, yet they have long lacked direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Mateusz Kuniej , Paweł Machnikowski , Michał Gawełczyk

The interference pattern of coherent electrons is effected by coupling to the quantized electromagnetic field. The amplitudes of the interference maxima are changed by a factor which depends upon a double line integral of the photon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 L. H. Ford

A time-dependent inelastic electron transport theory for strong electron-phonon interaction is established via the equations of motion method combined with the small polaron transformation. In this work, the dissipation via electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-21 Yu Zhang , ChiYung Yam , GuanHua Chen

The decay time of the linear polarization degree of the luminescence in strongly confined semiconductor quantum dots with asymmetrical shape is calculated in the frame of second-order quasielastic interaction between quantum dot charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Tsitsishvili , R. v. Baltz , H. Kalt

We study electron-phonon interaction induced decoherence between two-electron singlet and triplet states in a semiconductor double quantum dot using a spin-boson model. We investigate the onset and time evolution of this dephasing, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Xuedong Hu

The contribution to the biexciton binding energy in quantum dots resulting from the interaction with longitudinal optical phonons is estimated by performing the configuration--interaction calculation of the few-particle states in a simple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 Paweł Machnikowski

Quantum dots are arguably one of the best platforms for optically accessible spin based qubits. The paramount demand of extended qubit storage time can be met by using quantum-dot-confined dark exciton: a longlived electron-hole pair with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Michał Zieliński