64 research outputs found
Self-interfering wavepackets
We study the propagation of non-interacting polariton wavepackets. We show
how two qualitatively different concepts of mass that arise from the peculiar
polariton dispersion lead to a new type of particle-like object from
non-interacting fields---much like self-accelerating beams---shaped by the Rabi
coupling out of Gaussian initial states. A divergence and change of sign of the
diffusive mass results in a "mass wall" on which polariton wavepackets bounce
back. Together with the Rabi dynamics, this yield propagation of ultrafast
subpackets and ordering of a spacetime crystal.Comment: (no movies part of this preprint
Generation of a two-photon state from a quantum dot in a microcavity under incoherent and coherent continuous excitation
We analyze the impact of both an incoherent and a coherent continuous
excitation on our proposal to generate a two-photon state from a quantum dot in
a microcavity [New J. Phys. 13, 113014 (2011)]. A comparison between exact
numerical results and analytical formulas provides the conditions to
efficiently generate indistinguishable and simultaneous pairs of photons under
both types of excitation.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, conference proceeding
Perfect single-photon sources
We introduce the "gapped coherent state" in the form of a single-photon
source (SPS) that consists of uncorrelated photons as a background, except that
we demand that no two photons can be closer in time than a time gap
. While no obvious quantum mechanism is yet identified to produce
exactly such a photon stream, a numerical simulation is easily achieved by
first generating an uncorrelated (Poissonian) signal and then for each photon
in the list, either adding such a time gap or removing all successive photons
that are closer in time from any photon that is kept than . We
study the statistical properties of such a hypothetical signal, which exhibits
counter-intuitive features. This provides a neat and natural connection between
continuous-wave (stationary) and pulsed single-photon sources, with also a
bearing on what it means for such sources to be perfect in terms of
single-photon emission
Enhanced two-photon emission from a dressed biexciton
Radiative two-photon cascades from biexcitons in semiconductor quantum dots
under resonant two-photon excitation are promising candidates for the
generation of photon pairs. In this work, we propose a scheme to obtain
two-photon emission that allows to operate under very intense driving fields.
This approach relies on the Purcell enhancement of two-photon virtual
transitions between states of the biexciton dressed by the laser. The richness
provided by the biexcitonic level structure allows to reach a variety of
regimes, from antibunched and bunched photon pairs with polarization orthogonal
to the driving field, to polarization entangled two-photon emission. This
evidences that the general paradigm of two-photon emission from a ladder of
dressed states can find interesting, particular implementations in a variety of
systems
Strong-coupling of quantum dots in microcavities
We show that strong-coupling (SC) of light and matter as it is realized with
quantum dots (QDs) in microcavities differs substantially from the paradigm of
atoms in optical cavities. The type of pumping used in semiconductors yields
new criteria to achieve SC, with situations where the pump hinders, or on the
contrary, favours it. We analyze one of the seminal experimental observation of
SC of a QD in a pillar microcavity [Reithmaier et al., Nature (2004)] as an
illustration of our main statements.Comment: Substantially revised version. The major change is in the analysis of
one of the seminal experiment of the field, that shows the excellent
quantitative agreement with the theory. Full details, especially all
concerning Fermi statistics (still present in previous versions), are now to
be presented elsewhere. To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008
Climbing the Jaynes-Cummings ladder by photon counting
We present a new method to observe direct experimental evidence of
Jaynes--Cummings nonlinearities in a strongly dissipative cavity quantum
electrodynamics system, where large losses compete with the strong light-matter
interaction. This is a highly topical problem, particularly for quantum dots in
microcavities where transitions from higher rungs of the Jaynes--Cummings
ladder remain to be evidenced explicitly. We compare coherent and incoherent
excitations of the system and find that resonant excitation of the detuned
emitter make it possible to unambiguously evidence few photon quantum
nonlinearities in currently available experimental systems.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures (color online). Updated bb
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