Impact of electron-phonon interactions on quantum-dot cavity quantum electrodynamics

Abstract

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) in photonic nanocavities provide monolithic, robust platforms for both quantum information processing and cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). An inherent feature of such solid-state cavity QED systems is the presence of electron-phonon interactions, which distinguishes these systems from conventional atomic cavity QED. Understanding the effects of electron-phonon interactions on these systems is indispensable for controlling and exploiting the rich physics that they exhibit. Here we investigate the effects of electron-phonon interactions on a QD-based cavity QED system. When the QD and the cavity are off-resonance, we observe phonon-assisted cavity mode emission that strongly depends on the temperature and cavity-detuning. When they are on-resonance, we observe an asymmetric vacuum Rabi doublet, the splitting of which narrows with increasing temperature. These experimental observations can be well reproduced using a cavity QED model that includes electron-acoustic-phonon interactions. Our work provides significant insight into the important but hitherto poorly understood mechanism of non-resonant QD-cavity coupling and into the physics of various cavity QED systems utilizing emitters coupled to phonons, such as nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond and colloidal nanocrystals.

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