Entanglement robustness to excitonic spin precession in a quantum dot
arXiv:2001.11833 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045304
Abstract
A semiconductor quantum dot (QD) is an attractive resource to generate polarization-entangled photon pairs. We study the excitonic spin precession (flip-flop) in a family of QDs with different excitonic fine-structure splitting (FSS) and its impact on the entanglement of photons generated from the excitonic-biexcitonic radiative cascade. Our results reveal that coherent processes leave the time post-selected entanglement of QDs with finite FSS unaffected while changing the eigenstates of the system. The flip-flop's precession is observed via quantum tomography through anomalous oscillations of the coincidences in the rectilinear basis. A theoretical model is constructed with the inclusion of an excitonic flip-flop rate and is compared with a two-photon quantum tomography measurement on a QD exhibiting the spin flip-flop mechanism. A generalization of the theoretical model allows estimating the degree of entanglement as a function of the FSS and the spin-flip rate. For a finite temporal resolution, the negativity is found to be oscillating with respect to both the FSS and the spin-flip rate. This oscillatory behavior disappears for perfect temporal resolution and maximal entanglement is retrieved despite the flip-flop process.
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