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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 44: Semiconductor Microcavities and Entangled States in Quantum Dots

HL 44.6: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 29, 2007, 16:45–17:15, H15

Semiconductor quantum dots as entangled light sources — •David Gershoni — Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel

Entangled photon pairs are emitted from a biexciton decay cascade of single quantum dots when spectral filtering is applied. We show this by experimentally measuring the density matrix of the polarization state of the photon pair emitted from a continuously pumped quantum dot. The matrix clearly satisfies the Peres criterion for entanglement. By applying in addition a temporal window, the quantum dot becomes an entangled light source.