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Determination of anisotropic dipole moments in self-assembled quantum dots using Rabi oscillations A. Muller, Q. Q. Wang,a) P. Bianucci, and C. K. Shihb) Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 Q. K. Xue International Center for Quantum Structures (ICQS), Institute of Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China (Received By investigating the polarization-dependent Rabi oscillations using photoluminescence spectroscopy, we determined the respective transition dipole moments of the two excited excitonic states |E Ò and x |EyÒ of a single self-assembled quantum dot that are nondegenerate due to shape anisotropy. We find that the ratio of the two dipole moments is close to the physical elongation ratio of the quantum dot. PACS numbers: 42.50.Hz, 78.47.+p, 78.55.-m 1 Recently, semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as potential key elements in the emerging field of quantum information processing. Not only do QDs possess optical properties similar to atoms,1 but they also benefit from well-established semiconductor manufacturing capabilities making large-scale device integration possible. Indeed, much effort is now devoted to a possible implementation of elementary quantum 2 computation in QD systems, which was especially stimulated by the observation of Rabi oscillations (ROs) of excitonic states by several groups3,4,5 within the past two years. These oscillations that the population of an excited state undergoes as a function of the input pulse area, or qubit rotations, are the hallmark of a