We provide a self-contained review of master equation approaches to modelling phonon
effects in optically driven self-assembled quantum dots. Coupling of the (quasi) two-level …

The application of femtosecond spectroscopy to the study of ultrafast dynamics in
semiconductor materials and nanostructures is reviewed with particular emphasis on the …

We report coherent optical control of a biexciton (two electron-hole pairs), confined in a
single quantum dot, that shows coherent oscillations similar to the excited-state Rabi …

Present-day information technology is based mainly on incoherent processes in
conventional semiconductor devices. To realize concepts for future quantum information …

Modern nanotechnology opens the possibility of combining nanocrystals of various
materials with very different characteristics in one superstructure. Here we study theoretically …

We show that resonance fluorescence, ie, the resonant emission of a coherently driven two-
level system, can be realized with a semiconductor quantum dot. The dot is embedded in a …

Single-quantum emitters emit only one photon at a time,, but the properties of the photon
depend on how the emitter is excited. Incoherent excitation is simple and broadly used with …

Quantum dots are typically formed from large grou**s of atoms and thus may be expected
to have appreciable many-body behavior under intense optical excitation. Nonetheless, they …

Electron-phonon interaction is a major source of optical dephasing in semiconductor
quantum dots. Within a density matrix theory the electron-phonon interaction is considered …

The interaction between two quantum bits enables the creation of entanglement, the two-
particle correlations that are at the heart of quantum information science. In semiconductor …