Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Optically driving the radiative Auger transition

  • Clemens Spinnler,
  • Liang Zhai,
  • Giang N. Nguyen,
  • Julian Ritzmann,
  • Andreas D. Wieck,
  • Arne Ludwig,
  • Alisa Javadi,
  • Doris E. Reiter,
  • Paweł Machnikowski,
  • Richard J. Warburton,
  • Matthias C. Löbl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26875-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Radiative Auger is a process that leads to a red-shift of the optical emission of an atom or a charged solid-state quantum emitter. Here, the authors realize the inverse process by optically driving the radiative Auger transition of a short-lived electronic state in a semiconductor quantum dot.