Excitons

KW Böer, UW Pohl - Semiconductor physics, 2023 - Springer
Optical band-to-band absorption can produce an electron and a hole in close proximity
which attract each other via Coulomb interaction and can form a hydrogen-like bond state …

Emission properties and temporal coherence of the dark exciton confined in a quantum dot

S Germanis, P Atkinson, R Hostein, S Majrab… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We report measurements of the radiative lifetimes and coherence times of the dark and
bright excitons in an asymmetric GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dot. The dots, fabricated by partial …

Dark exciton preparation in a quantum dot by a longitudinal light field tuned to higher exciton states

M Holtkemper, GF Quinteiro, DE Reiter, T Kuhn - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Several important proposals to use semiconductor quantum dots in quantum information
technology rely on the control of the dark exciton ground states, such as dark exciton based …

Influence of interface states on built-in electric field and diamagnetic-Landau energy shifts in asymmetric modulation-doped InGaAs/GaAs QWs

G Vashisht, S Porwal, S Haldar… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The impact of interface defect states on the recombination and transport properties of
charges in asymmetric modulation-doped InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells (QWs) is …

Dark-bright excitons mixing in alloyed InGaAs self-assembled quantum dots

M Zieliński - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Quantum dots are arguably one of the best platforms for optically accessible spin-based
qubits. The paramount demand of extended qubit storage time can be met by using a …

Keeping the photon in the dark: Enabling full quantum dot control by chirped pulses and magnetic fields

F Kappe, R Schwarz, Y Karli, T Bracht, VM Axt… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Because dark excitons in quantum dots are not directly optically accessible, so far they have
not played a significant role in using quantum dots for photon generation. They possess …

Electrical control of optically pumped electron spin in a single GaAs/AlAs quantum dot fabricated by nanohole infilling

S Germanis, P Atkinson, R Hostein, S Suffit… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate here electrical control of the sign of the circularly polarized emission from
the negatively charged trion, going from co-to contrapolarized with respect to the circular …

Spin state tailoring of quantum dot spins for quantum information processing

K Barr - 2024 - stax.strath.ac.uk
Individual quantum dots can be efficiently harnessed as matter-based spin-qubits resulting
in applications across the field of quantum information processing. In this work, single-qubit …

Effect of Polarization on Exciton Properties in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot

SS Rekhviashvili - Russian Physics Journal, 2023 - Springer
The Wannier–Mott exciton in a semiconductor quantum dot is considered. The effect of
medium polarization and the effect of screening of the “electron-hole” Coulomb interaction …

Photocreation of a dark electron-hole pair in a quantum dot

SY Shiau, B Eble, V Voliotis, M Combescot - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Photon absorption in a semiconductor produces bright excitons that recombine very fast into
photons. Here, we show that in a quantum dot set close to ap-doped reservoir, this …