Controllable Photonic Time-Bin Qubits from a Quantum Dot

Autor: J. P. Lee, L. M. Wells, B. Villa, S. Kalliakos, R. M. Stevenson, D. J. P. Ellis, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, A. J. Bennett, A. J. Shields
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Physical Review X, Vol 8, Iss 2, p 021078 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2160-3308
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.8.021078
Popis: Photonic time-bin qubits are well suited to transmission via optical fibers and waveguide circuits. The states take the form 1/sqrt[(2)](α|0⟩+e^{iϕ}β|1⟩), with |0⟩ and |1⟩ referring to the early and late time bin, respectively. By controlling the phase of a laser driving a spin-flip Raman transition in a single-hole-charged InAs quantum dot, we demonstrate complete control over the phase, ϕ. We show that this photon generation process can be performed deterministically, with only a moderate loss in coherence. Finally, we encode different qubits in different energies of the Raman scattered light, paving the way for wavelength-division multiplexing at the single-photon level.
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