Biexciton initialization by two-photon excitation in site-controlled quantum dots: the complexity of the antibinding state case
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2020-09-29
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Juska, Gediminas
Jahromi, Iman Ranjbar
Mattana, Francesco
Varo, Simone
Dimastrodonato, Valeria
Pelucchi, Emanuele
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In this work, we present a biexciton state population in (111)B oriented site-controlled InGaAs quantum dots (QDs) by resonant two photon excitation. We show that the excited state recombines emitting highly pure single photon pairs entangled in polarization. The discussed cases herein are compelling due to the specific energetic structure of pyramidal InGaAs QDs—an antibinding biexciton—a state with a positive binding energy. We demonstrate that resonant two-photon excitation of QDs with antibinding biexcitons can lead to a complex excitation-recombination scenario. We systematically observed that the resonant biexciton state population is competing with an acoustic-phonon assisted population of an exciton state. These findings show that under typical two-photon resonant excitation conditions, deterministic biexciton state initialization can be compromised. This complication should be taken into account by the community members aiming to utilize similar epitaxial QDs with an antibinding biexciton.
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Quantum information , Excitons , Phonons , Photoemission , Quantum dots , Photonic entanglement , Quantum mechanical principles , Quantum mechanical systems and processes , Polarization , Lasers
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Juska, G., Jahromi, I. R., Mattana, F., Varo, S., Dimastrodonato, V. and Pelucchi, E. (2020) 'Biexciton initialization by two-photon excitation in site-controlled quantum dots: the complexity of the antibinding state case', Applied Physics Letters, 117, 134001 (6pp). doi: 10.1063/5.0011383
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© 2020, AIP Publishing. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters 117:134001 and may be found at https://https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/5.0011383