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30 - Advanced semiconductor quantum optics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2012

Mackillo Kira  and
Stephan W. Koch
Mackillo Kira
Affiliation:
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Stephan W. Koch
Affiliation:
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
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The discussions in the previous chapters show that already the spontaneous emission, i.e., the simplest manifestation of the quantum-optical fluctuations, exhibits highly nontrivial features as soon as the quantum light is coupled to interacting many-body systems. We have seen, for example, that pronounced resonances in the semiconductor luminescence originate from a nontrivial mixture of exciton and plasma contributions in contrast to the simple transitions between the eigenstates of isolated atomic systems. As a consequence of the conservation laws inherent to the light–matter coupling, the photon emission induces rearrangements in the entire many-body system leading, e.g., to pronounced hole burning in the exciton distribution. As discussed in Chapter 29, this depletion of the optically active excitons leads to a reduction of the total radiative recombination and the appearance of nonthermal luminescence even when the electron–hole system is in quasiequilibrium. Already these observations show that the coupled quantum-optical and many-body interactions induce new intriguing phenomena that are not explainable by the concepts of traditional quantum optics or classical semiconductor physics alone.

The foundations of quantum optics are based on systematic investigations of simple systems interacting with few quantized light modes. In this context, one can evaluate and even measure the exact eigenstates or the density matrix with respect to both the photonic and the atomic degrees of freedom. In semiconductor systems, currently the investigations using one or a few quantum dots (QD) are closest to the atomic studies because, due to their discrete eigenstates, one can treat strongly confined quantum dots to some extent like artificial atoms.

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Semiconductor Quantum Optics , pp. 608 - 626
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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