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Effective tuning of exciton polarization splitting in coupled quantum dots Jia-Lin Zhu∗ and Dong Xu Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China (Dated: February 1, 2008) The polarization splitting of the exciton ground state in two laterally coupled quantum dots under an in-plane electric field is investigated and its effective tuning is designed. It is found that there are significant Stark effect and anticrossing in energy levels. Due to coupling between inter- and intra-dot states, the absolute value of polarization splitting is significantly reduced, and it could be 7 tuned to zero by the electric field for proper inter-dot separations. Our scheme is interesting for the 0 0 research on the quantum dots-based entangled-photon source. 2 PACS numbers: 71.35.-y, 78.67.-n, 71.70.Gm, 78.55.Cr n u J Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have been demon- |X = (r , r )a† a |0 where the m,s r ,r ms e h c r vmrh e h s e 2 strated as one of candidates for both the single-photon Wannier function representation of the creation and an- 1 and entangled two-photon sources, which make them nihilation operators is used, m and s are the z-component very attractive for applications in the fields of quan- of the angular momentum of t