Correlated and Entangled Photon Pairs from Semiconductor 相关和纠缠光子对半导体.pptVIP

Entangled Photon Pairs from Semiconductor Quantum Dots Outline Motivation: deterministic sources for entangled photons. Entanglement. Radiative cascades in semiconductor quantum dots. Entanglement by spectral projection. Why does it work in spite of inhomogeneous broadening. Conclusion: semiconductor quantum dots are practical sources for entangled photons on demand. Motivation Entanglement is an essential resource of quantum information processing. Entangled photons are particularly attractive due to their non interacting nature, and the ease with which they can be manipulated. Quantum computing, quantum communication require “Event ready” entangled photon pairs. Therefore, deterministic sources of entangled photons are needed. Entanglement Systems A and B, Hilbert space The combined state is not entangled (seperable) if (not) Entanglement Entanglement How can we tell if a general state is entangled? For two qubits, we have the Peres criterion: is entangled iff its partial transposition satisfies Example The state gives the density matrix The partial transpose gives a non –positive matrix Strain induced Self assembled Quantum Dots Single semiconductor quantum dot Bi-exiton radiative casacade The anisotropic e-h exchange interaction Two photon polarization density matrix: Polarization sensitive photoluminescence Polarization density matrix without spectral projection Spectral projection – Elimination of the ‘which path’ Information. Spectral filtering Density matrix – spectral window of 25 μeV (closed slits) Density matrix – spectral window of 25 μeV (closed slits) Is there any ‘which path’ information left in the degrees of freedom of the QD’s environment ? Spectral Filtering in the presence of inhomogeneous broadening Conclusions: First demonstration of entangled photon pairs from the radiative cascade in SCQDs. No other “which path” information in the environment. Deterministic entangled photon p