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High Resolution Phonon-assisted Quasi-resonance Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Published on: June 28, 2016
Direct evidence of interlevel exciton transitions mediated by single phonons in a semiconductor quantum dot using
Edward B Flagg1, John W Robertson, Sébastien Founta
1Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. edward.flagg@nist.gov
Abstract:
Using resonance fluorescence, we investigate how acoustic phonons mediate couplings between multiple electronic levels in a semiconductor quantum dot. We show the first direct evidence of population up-conversion in a single quantum dot, which we attribute to absorption of single acoustic phonons. Moreover, through a rate equation analysis, we find that below 20 K such single-phonon mediated couplings between the exciton ground state and the first excited state are primarily responsible for decoherence of the exciton quantum state.
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