Collective Spontaneous Emission from a System of Quantum Dots

• Authors: W. Abdussalam , P. Machnikowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We study the spontaneous emission from a regular lateral array or a randomly distributed ensemble of quantum dots under strong excitation (full inversion) conditions. We focus on the similarities and differences between the cases of random and regular arrangement of the dots and show that there is very little difference between the evolution of luminescence in these two cases, both for identical dots and for a realistically inhomogeneously broadened ensemble. This means that the enhanced emission or superradiance effect is not due to accidental clustering of pairs of dots. Moreover, we point out that observation of an enhanced emission under weak excitation does not prove that true superradiance will develop in a fully inverted system.

Keywords

EN

78.67.Hc; 42.50.Ct; 03.65.Yz

Discipline

• 03.65.Yz: Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods(see also 03.67.Pp in quantum information; for decoherence in Bose-Einstein condensates, see 03.75.Gg)
• 42.50.Ct: Quantum description of interaction of light and matter; related experiments
• 78.67.Hc: Quantum dots

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 122
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 994-996

Dates

published

2012-12

Contributors

author

W. Abdussalam

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

author

P. Machnikowski

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.122.994