Entanglement and lasing with two quantum dots in a microcavity
- 19 December 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 76 (23) , 235317
Abstract
Entanglement and lasing of two quantum dots in a microcavity are investigated in the steady state achieved under a continuous incoherent pumping. Lasing is favored in the case of independent pumping of the dots, i.e., when an electron-hole pair which reaches one dot does not affect the other. In this case, having two dots allows a qualitative enhancement of the lasing emission as compared to the single dot case. On the other hand, when the two dots share the excitation bath, giving rise to a quantum uncertainty of the final state of the excitation, entanglement properties are enhanced in detriment of the photon emission. Slightly different couplings between the dots and the cavity induce good singlet-state population. This allows good entanglement in a system pumped continuously and incoherently.Keywords
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