A light-hole exciton in a quantum dot

YH Huo, BJ Witek, S Kumar, JR Cardenas, JX Zhang… - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
A light-hole exciton is a quasiparticle formed from a single electron bound to a single light
hole. This type of fundamental excitation, if confined inside a semiconductor quantum dot …

Bright quantum dot single-photon emitters at telecom bands heterogeneously integrated on Si

P Holewa, A Sakanas, UM Gur, P Mrowiński… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Whereas the Si photonic platform is highly attractive for scalable optical quantum information
processing, it lacks practical solutions for efficient photon generation. Self-assembled …

Uniaxial stress flips the natural quantization axis of a quantum dot for integrated quantum photonics

X Yuan, F Weyhausen-Brinkmann… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The optical selection rules in epitaxial quantum dots are strongly influenced by the
orientation of their natural quantization axis, which is usually parallel to the growth direction …

Excitation-Induced Dephasing in a Resonantly Driven Quantum Dot

L Monniello, C Tonin, R Hostein, A Lemaitre… - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
We report on coherent emission of the neutral exciton state in a single semiconductor self-
assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dot embedded in a one-dimensional waveguide, under …

Hyperfine interaction limits polarization entanglement of photons from semiconductor quantum dots

C Schimpf, FB Basset, M Aigner, W Attenender, L Ginés… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Excitons in quantum dots are excellent sources of polarization-entangled photon pairs, but a
quantitative understanding of their interaction with the nuclear spin bath is still missing. Here …

Supercoupling between heavy-hole and light-hole states in nanostructures

JW Luo, G Bester, A Zunger - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The heavy-hole (HH) and light-hole (LH) components of the valence states in three-
dimensional (3D) bulk semiconductors can mix quantum mechanically as the dimensionality …

InAs/AlGaAs quantum dots for single-photon emission in a red spectral range

MV Rakhlin, KG Belyaev, GV Klimko, IS Mukhin… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
We report on comparative optical studies of InAs/Al0. 44Ga0. 56As quantum dots (QDs)
grown by molecular beam epitaxy either with or without a thin GaAs interlayer inserted …

On-chip scalable highly pure and indistinguishable single-photon sources in ordered arrays: path to quantum optical circuits

J Zhang, S Chattaraj, Q Huang, L Jordao, S Lu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Realization of quantum optical circuits is at the heart of quantum photonic information
processing. A long-standing obstacle, however, has been the absence of a suitable platform …

Dynamics of excitons in individual InAs quantum dots revealed in four-wave mixing spectroscopy

Q Mermillod, D Wigger, V Delmonte, DE Reiter… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A detailed understanding of the population and coherence dynamics in optically driven
individual emitters in solids and their signatures in ultrafast nonlinear optical signals is of …

Light-hole exciton in a nanowire quantum dot

M Jeannin, A Artioli, P Rueda-Fonseca… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Quantum dots inserted inside semiconductor nanowires are extremely promising candidates
as building blocks for solid-state-based quantum computation and communication. They …