Thursday, June 7, 2012

1206.1111 (Jianping Wang et al.)

Conquer the fine structure splitting of excitons in self-assembled
InAs/GaAs quantum dots via combined stresses
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Jianping Wang, Ming Gong, Guang-Can Guo, Lixin He
Eliminating the fine structure splitting (FSS) of excitons in self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) is essential to the generation of high quality entangled photon pairs. It has been shown that the FSS has a lower bound under uniaxial stress. In this letter, we show that the FSS of excitons in a general self-assembled InGaAs/GaAs QD can be fully suppressed via combined stresses along the [110] and [010] directions. The result is confirmed by atomic empirical pseudopotential calculations. For all the QDs we studied, the FSS can be tuned to be vanishingly small ($<$ 0.1 $\mu$eV), which is sufficient small for high quality entangled photon emission.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1111

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