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arXiv:0710.2308 · Physical Review Letters

Entanglement on Demand through Time Reordering

J. E. Avron, Gili Bisker, D. Gershoni, Netanel H. Lindner, Eli A. Meirom, R. J. Warburton

Published Mar 28, 2008• 82 citations
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Abstract

Entangled photons can be generated "on demand" in a novel scheme involving unitary time reordering of the photons emitted in a radiative decay cascade. The scheme yields polarization entangled photon pairs, even though prior to reordering the emitted photons carry significant "which path information" and their polarizations are unentangled. This shows that quantum chronology can be manipulated in a way that is lossless and deterministic (unitary). The theory can, in principle, be tested and applied to the biexciton cascade in semiconductor quantum dots.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.100.120501

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Comment on "Entanglement on Demand through Time Reordering"

Pradyumna K. Pathak, Stephen Hughes

In a recent Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 120501 (2008)], Avron {\em et al.} discuss a time reordering scheme to achieve efficient "across-generation" of entangled photon pairs in a semiconductor quantum dot with a suppressed biexciton binding energy. They demonstrate that the scheme can be implemented using time delay between the generated photons. In this Comment, we derive an exact expression for the concurrence of the time delayed photons, and show that the predicted values by Avron {\em et al.} are not achievable, which stems from an approximation used in their approximate theoretical analysis.

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Entangled photons can be generated "on demand" in a novel scheme involving unitary time reordering of the photons emitted in a radiative decay cascade. The scheme yields polarization entangled photon pairs, even though prior to reordering the emitted photons carry significant "which path information" and their polarizations are unentangled. This shows that quantum chronology can be manipulated in a way that is lossless and deterministic (unitary). The theory can, in principle, be tested and applied to the biexciton cascade in semiconductor quantum dots.
We theoretically investigate the production of polarization-entangled photons through the biexciton cascade decay in a single semiconductor quantum dot. To accomplish a high degree of entanglement, despite the exciton fine-structure splitting, one must either energetically align the two exciton states by means of external fields or erase the which-path information by postselection or time reordering of photons. Here we show that in the latter schemes the photon state becomes deteriorated through dephasing processes in the solid, and the degree of entanglement remains low.
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The biexciton cascade in a quantum dot can be used to generate entangled-photon pairs rapidly and deterministically (on demand). However, due to a large fine-structure splitting between intermediate exciton energy levels, which-path information encoded in the frequencies of emitted photon pairs leads to a small degree of entanglement. Here we show that this information can be efficiently erased by modulating the exciton and biexciton energy levels, giving rise to additional decay paths through sidebands. The resulting degree of entanglement is substantial and can be made maximal through spectral filtering, with only a nominal reduction in collection efficiency.
In a recent Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 120501 (2008)], Avron {\em et al.} discuss a time reordering scheme to achieve efficient "across-generation" of entangled photon pairs in a semiconductor quantum dot with a suppressed biexciton binding energy. They demonstrate that the scheme can be implemented using time delay between the generated photons. In this Comment, we derive an exact expression for the concurrence of the time delayed photons, and show that the predicted values by Avron {\em et al.} are not achievable, which stems from an approximation used in their approximate theoretical analysis.