Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Resonant driving of a single photon emitter embedded in a mechanical oscillator

  • Mathieu Munsch,
  • Andreas V. Kuhlmann,
  • Davide Cadeddu,
  • Jean-Michel Gérard,
  • Julien Claudon,
  • Martino Poggio,
  • Richard J. Warburton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00097-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Resonant driving of a nanoscale quantum system coupled to a microscopic mechanical resonator may have uses in precision sensing and quantum information. The authors realize this by tailoring the geometry of a semiconductor nanowire embedding a quantum dot, detecting sub-picometre displacements.