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Controllable photonic time-bin qubits from a quantum dot

Quantum Physics 2018-07-04 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

Photonic time bin qubits are well suited to transmission via optical fibres and waveguide circuits. The states take the form 12(α0+eiϕβ1)\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\alpha \ket{0} + e^{i\phi}\beta \ket{1}), with 0\ket{0} and 1\ket{1} referring to the early and late time bin respectively. By controlling the phase of a laser driving a spin-flip Raman transition in a single-hole-charged InAs quantum dot we demonstrate complete control over the phase, ϕ\phi. We show that this photon generation process can be performed deterministically, with only a moderate loss in coherence. Finally, we encode different qubits in different energies of the Raman scattered light, demonstrating wavelength division multiplexing at the single photon level.

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@article{arxiv.1804.00713,
  title  = {Controllable photonic time-bin qubits from a quantum dot},
  author = {J. P. Lee and L. M. Wells and B. Villa and S. Kalliakos and R. M. Stevenson and D. J. P. Ellis and I. Farrer and D. A. Ritchie and A. J. Bennett and A. J. Shields},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00713},
  year   = {2018}
}
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