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arXiv:1601.05060

Indirect exciton qubit manipulation via the optical Stark effect in quantum dot molecules

Juan E. Rolon, Joaquín E. Drut

Published Jan 19, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a coherent control scheme based on the optical Stark effect in optically generated excitons in quantum dot molecules (QDMs). We show that, by the combined action of voltage bias detuning sweeps and Rosen-Zener pulsed interactions, it is possible to dynamically generate and modify an anticrossing gap that emerges between the dressed energy levels of long-lived, spatially indirect excitons. We perform numerical and analytic non-perturbative calculations based on the Bloch-Feshbach formalism, which demonstrate that this effect induces a mechanism of coherent population trapping of indirect excitons in QDMs. Our results show that it is possible to perform an all-optical implementation of indirect-excitonic qubit operations, such as the Pauli-X and Hadamard quantum gates, across two defined axis of the Bloch Sphere.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1601.05060

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