Two-photon excitation sets limit to entangled photon pair generation from quantum emitters

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Seidelmann, Tim ; Schimpf, C. ; Bracht, T. K. ; Cosacchi, Michael ; Vagov, Alexei ; Rastelli, A. ; Reiter, D. E. ; Axt, Vollrath Martin:
Two-photon excitation sets limit to entangled photon pair generation from quantum emitters.
In: Physical Review Letters. Bd. 129 (2022) Heft 19 . - 193604.
ISSN 1079-7114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.193604

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Abstract

Entangled photon pairs are key to many novel applications in quantum technologies. Semiconductor quantum dots can be used as sources of on-demand, highly entangled photons. The fidelity to a fixed maximally entangled state is limited by the excitonic fine-structure splitting. This work demonstrates that, even if this splitting is absent, the degree of entanglement cannot reach unity when the excitation pulse in a two-photon resonance scheme has a finite duration. The degradation of the entanglement has its origin in a dynamically induced splitting of the exciton states caused by the laser pulse itself. Hence, in the setting explored here, the excitation process limits the achievable concurrence for entangled photons generated in an optically excited four-level quantum emitter.