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P. Steindl

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arXiv2026

Dynamical decoupling of a quantum dot spin in a micropillar cavity for spin-multiphoton entanglement

Graph states of mutually entangled photons are key resources for quantum computation and communication and can be generated by leveraging the entanglement between a single resident spin and emitted photons from a charged semiconductor quantum dot (QD). This approach is intrinsically limited by the decoherence of the spin. We study how to mitigate this decoherence with dynamical decoupling of an electron spin in the weak transverse magnetic field regime using spin echo and Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) techniques. Application of these techniques allows us to extend the coherence time of a spin by more than two orders of magnitude, extracting a $T_2^{CPMG}$ of $298\pm53$ ns. We further demonstrate that this technique is compatible with the generation of a spin-photon-photon entangled state at a high rate enabled by a micropillar cavity, with a 20% improvement in simulated state fidelity when using dynamical decoupling. These results pave the way for generating larger and more complex entangled states with QDs.

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arXiv2023

Resonant two-laser spin-state spectroscopy of a negatively charged quantum dot-microcavity system with a cold permanent magnet

A high-efficiency spin-photon interface is an essential piece of quantum hardware necessary for various quantum technologies. Self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots have excellent optical properties, if embedded into an optical micro-cavity they can show near-deterministic spin-photon entanglement and spin readout, but an external magnetic field is required to address the individual spin states, which usually is done using a superconducting magnet. Here, we show a compact cryogenically compatible SmCo magnet design that delivers 475 mT in-plane Voigt geometry magnetic field at 5 K, which is suitable to lift the energy degeneracy of the electron spin states and trion transitions of a single InGaAs quantum dot. This quantum dot is embedded in a birefringent high-finesse optical micro-cavity which enables efficient collection of single photons emitted by the quantum dot. We demonstrate spin-state manipulation by addressing the trion transitions with a single and two laser fields. The experimental data agrees well to our model which covers single- and two-laser cross-polarized resonance fluorescence, Purcell enhancement in a birefringent cavity, and variation of the laser powers.

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arXiv2023

Cross-polarization extinction enhancement and spin-orbit coupling of light for quantum-dot cavity-QED spectroscopy

Resonant laser spectroscopy is essential for the characterization, operation, and manipulation of single quantum systems such as semiconductor quantum dots. The separation of the weak resonance fluorescence from the excitation laser is key for high-quality single- and entangled photon sources. This is often achieved by cross-polarization laser extinction, which is limited by the quality of the optical elements. Recently, it was discovered that Fresnel-reflection birefringence in combination with single-mode filtering counteracting spin-orbit coupling effects enables a three-order of magnitude improvement of polarization extinction [PRX 11, 021007 (2021)]. Here, we first investigate multiple reflections and analyze beam reshaping, and observe that the single-reflection extinction enhancement is optimal. We then demonstrate this method for cross-polarization extinction enhancement for a resonantly excited semiconductor quantum dot in a birefringent optical micro cavity, and observe a 10x improvement of single-photon contrast.

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arXiv2021

Artificial coherent states of light by multi-photon interference in a single-photon stream

Coherent optical states consist of a quantum superposition of different photon number (Fock) states, but because they do not form an orthogonal basis, no photon number states can be obtained from it by linear optics. Here we demonstrate the reverse, by manipulating a random continuous single-photon stream using quantum interference in an optical Sagnac loop, we create engineered quantum states of light with tunable photon statistics, including approximate weak coherent states. We demonstrate this experimentally using a true single-photon stream produced by a semiconductor quantum dot in an optical microcavity, and show that we can obtain light with $g^{(2)}(0)\rightarrow1$ in agreement with our theory, which can only be explained by quantum interference of at least 3 photons. The produced artificial light states are, however, much more complex than coherent states, containing quantum entanglement of photons, making them a resource for multi-photon entanglement.

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arXiv2016

Polarization anisotropy of the emission from type-II quantum dots

We study the polarization response of the emission from type-II GaAsSb capped InAs quantum dots. The theoretical prediction based on the calculations of the overlap integrals of the single-particle states obtained in the k.p framework is given. This is verified experimentally by polarization resolved photoluminescence measurements on samples with the type-II confinement. We show that the polarization anisotropy might be utilized to find the vertical position of the hole wavefunction and its orientation with respect to crystallographic axes of the sample. A proposition for usage in the information technology as a room temperature photonic gate operating at the communication wavelengths as well as a simple model to estimate the energy of fine-structure splitting for type-II GaAsSb capped InAs QDs are given.

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