Highly indistinguishable and strongly entangled photons from symmetric GaAs quantum dots

Daniel Huber; Marcus Reindl; Yongheng Huo; Huiying Huang; Johannes S. Wildmann; Oliver G. Schmidt; Armando Rastelli; Rinaldo Trotta

doi:10.1038/ncomms15506

Nature Communications (May 2017)

Highly indistinguishable and strongly entangled photons from symmetric GaAs quantum dots

Daniel Huber,
Marcus Reindl,
Yongheng Huo,
Huiying Huang,
Johannes S. Wildmann,
Oliver G. Schmidt,
Armando Rastelli,
Rinaldo Trotta

Affiliations

Daniel Huber: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University
Marcus Reindl: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University
Yongheng Huo: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University
Huiying Huang: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University
Johannes S. Wildmann: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University
Oliver G. Schmidt: Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden
Armando Rastelli: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University
Rinaldo Trotta: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15506
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Scalable and integratable sources of entangled-photon pairs are an important building block for quantum photonic applications. Here, Huberet al. demonstrate that droplet-etched gallium arsenide quantum dots can emit highly indistinguishable photon pairs with a high degree of entanglement.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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