Interfacing single photons and single quantum dots with photonic nanostructures

P Lodahl, S Mahmoodian, S Stobbe - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015‏ - APS
Photonic nanostructures provide a means of tailoring the interaction between light and
matter and the past decade has witnessed tremendous experimental and theoretical …

Modelling exciton–phonon interactions in optically driven quantum dots

A Nazir, DPS McCutcheon - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

High Purcell factor generation of indistinguishable on-chip single photons

F Liu, AJ Brash, J O'Hara, LMPP Martins… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
On-chip single-photon sources are key components for integrated photonic quantum
technologies. Semiconductor quantum dots can exhibit near-ideal single-photon emission …

[HTML][HTML] Open quantum system dynamics and the mean force Gibbs state

AS Trushechkin, M Merkli, JD Cresser… - AVS Quantum Science, 2022‏ - pubs.aip.org
The dynamical convergence of a system to the thermal distribution, or Gibbs state, is a
standard assumption across all of the physical sciences. The Gibbs state is determined just …

On-demand semiconductor single-photon source with near-unity indistinguishability

YM He, Y He, YJ Wei, D Wu, M Atatüre… - Nature …, 2013‏ - nature.com
Single-photon sources based on semiconductor quantum dots offer distinct advantages for
quantum information, including a scalable solid-state platform, ultrabrightness and …

Phonon scattering inhibits simultaneous near-unity efficiency and indistinguishability in semiconductor single-photon sources

J Iles-Smith, DPS McCutcheon, A Nazir, J Mørk - Nature Photonics, 2017‏ - nature.com
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have recently emerged as a leading platform to
generate highly indistinguishable photons efficiently, and this work addresses the timely …

Transform-limited single photons from a single quantum dot

AV Kuhlmann, JH Prechtel, J Houel, A Ludwig… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
Develo** a quantum photonics network requires a source of very-high-fidelity single
photons. An outstanding challenge is to produce a transform-limited single-photon emitter to …

Near-transform-limited single photons from an efficient solid-state quantum emitter

H Wang, ZC Duan, YH Li, S Chen, JP Li, YM He… - Physical Review Letters, 2016‏ - APS
By pulsed s-shell resonant excitation of a single quantum dot-micropillar system, we
generate long streams of 1000 near-transform-limited single photons with high mutual …

Subnatural linewidth single photons from a quantum dot

C Matthiesen, AN Vamivakas, M Atatüre - Physical Review Letters, 2012‏ - APS
The observation of quantum-dot resonance fluorescence enabled a new solid-state
approach to generating single photons with a bandwidth approaching the natural linewidth …

Deterministic and robust generation of single photons from a single quantum dot with 99.5% indistinguishability using adiabatic rapid passage

YJ Wei, YM He, MC Chen, YN Hu, Y He, D Wu… - Nano …, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
Single photons are attractive candidates of quantum bits (qubits) for quantum computation
and are the best messengers in quantum networks. Future scalable, fault-tolerant photonic …