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20152023
most citedOn-demand generation of background--free single photons from a solid-state source

293 citations · 2.1k across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

quant-ph2023★ 9 cited

Hyperfine-interaction limits polarization entanglement of photons from semiconductor quantum dots

Christian Schimpf, Francesco Basso Basset, Maximilian Aigner +12

Excitons in quantum dots are excellent sources of polarization-entangled photon pairs, but a quantitative understanding of their interaction with the nuclear spin bath is still mis…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Coherent Quantum Interconnection between On-Demand Quantum Dot Single Photons and a Resonant Atomic Quantum Memory

Guo-Dong Cui, Lucas Schweickert, Klaus D. Jöns +11

Long-range quantum communication requires the development of in-out light-matter interfaces to achieve a quantum advantage in entanglement distribution. Ideally, these quantum inte…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 10 cited

GaAs quantum dots under quasi-uniaxial stress: experiment and theory

Xueyong Yuan, Saimon F. Covre da Silva, Diana Csontosova +7

The optical properties of excitons confined in initially-unstrained GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots are studied as a function of a variable quasi-uniaxial stress. To allow the validation…

physics.app-ph2022★ 43 cited

Surface passivation and oxide encapsulation to improve optical properties of a single GaAs quantum dot close to the surface

Santanu Manna, Huiying Huang, Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva +6

Epitaxial GaAs quantum dots grown by droplet etching have recently shown excellent properties as sources of single photons as well as entangled photon pairs. Integration in some na…

quant-ph2021★ 69 cited

GaAs quantum dots grown by droplet etching epitaxy as quantum light sources

Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva, Gabriel Undeutsch, Barbara Lehner +6

This paper presents an overview and perspectives on the epitaxial growth and optical properties of GaAs quantum dots obtained with the droplet etching method as high-quality source…

quant-ph2020★ 2 cited

Quantum dots as potential sources of strongly entangled photons for quantum networks

Christian Schimpf, Marcus Reindl, Francesco Basso Basset +3

The generation and long-haul transmission of highly entangled photon pairs is a cornerstone of emerging photonic quantum technologies, with key applications such as quantum key dis…

quant-ph2020★ 156 cited

Quantum cryptography with highly entangled photons from semiconductor quantum dots

Christian Schimpf, Marcus Reindl, Daniel Huber +6

State-of-the-art quantum key distribution systems are based on the BB84 protocol and single photons generated by lasers. These implementations suffer from range limitations and sec…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 70 cited

The crux of using the cascaded emission of a 3-level quantum ladder system to generate indistinguishable photons

Eva Schöll, Lucas Schweickert, Lukas Hanschke +13

We investigate the degree of indistinguishability of cascaded photons emitted from a 3-level quantum ladder system; in our case the biexciton-exciton cascade of semiconductor quant…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 60 cited

The Origin of Antibunching in Resonance Fluorescence

Lukas Hanschke, Lucas Schweickert, Juan Camilo López Carreño +14

Epitaxial quantum dots have emerged as one of the best single-photon sources, not only for applications in photonic quantum technologies but also for testing fundamental properties…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 38 cited

Single-Particle-Picture Breakdown in laterally weakly confining GaAs Quantum Dots

Daniel Huber, Barbara Ursula Lehner, Diana Csontosová +5

We present a detailed investigation of different excitonic states weakly confined in single GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots obtained by the Al droplet-etching method. For our analysis we…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 34 cited

Strain tunable single-photon source based on a quantum dot-micropillar system

Magdalena Moczała-Dusanowska, Łukasz Dusanowski, Stefan Gerhardt +7

Scalable quantum photonic architectures demand highly efficient, high-purity single-photon sources, which can be frequency matched via external tuning. We demonstrate a single-phot…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 37 cited

Resolving the temporal evolution of line broadening in quantum emitters

Christian Schimpf, Marcus Reindl, Petr Klenovský +7

Light emission from solid-state quantum emitters is inherently prone to environmental decoherence, which results in an inhomogeneous line broadening and in the deterioration of pho…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 71 cited

Highly indistinguishable single photons from incoherently and coherently excited GaAs quantum dots

Marcus Reindl, Jonas H. Weber, Daniel Huber +6

Semiconductor quantum dots are converging towards the demanding requirements of photonic quantum technologies. Among different systems, quantum dots with dimensions exceeding the f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 91 cited

Resonance fluorescence of GaAs quantum dots with near-unity photon indistinguishability

Eva Schöll, Lukas Hanschke, Lucas Schweickert +10

Photonic quantum technologies call for scalable quantum light sources that can be integrated, while providing the end user with single and entangled photons on-demand. One promisin…

quant-ph2019★ 158 cited

Entanglement swapping with photons generated on-demand by a quantum dot

Francesco Basso Basset, Michele B. Rota, Christian Schimpf +8

Photonic entanglement swapping, the procedure of entangling photons without any direct interaction, is a fundamental test of quantum mechanics and an essential resource to the real…

quant-ph2018★ 3 cited

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency of On-demand Single Photons in a Hybrid Quantum Network

Lucas Schweickert, Klaus D. Jöns, Mehdi Namazi +11

Long range quantum communication and quantum information processing require the development of light-matter interfaces for distributed quantum networks. Even though photons are ide…

quant-ph2018★ 137 cited

Semiconductor quantum dots as an ideal source of polarization entangled photon pairs on-demand: a review

Daniel Huber, Marcus Reindl, Johannes Aberl +2

More than 80 years passed since the first publication on entangled quantum states. In this period of time the concept of spookily interacting quantum states became an emerging fiel…

quant-ph2018★ 205 cited

Strain-Tunable GaAs Quantum dot: A Nearly Dephasing-Free Source of Entangled Photon Pairs on Demand

Daniel Huber, Marcus Reindl, Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva +7

Entangled photon generation from semiconductor quantum dots via the biexciton-exciton cascade underlies various decoherence mechanisms related to the solid-state nature of the quan…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 293 cited

On-demand generation of background--free single photons from a solid-state source

Lucas Schweickert, Klaus D. Jöns, Katharina D. Zeuner +8

True on--demand high--repetition--rate single--photon sources are highly sought after for quantum information processing applications. However, any coherently driven two-level quan…

quant-ph2017★ 26 cited

On-demand semiconductor source of 780 nm single photons with controlled temporal wave packets

Lucas Béguin, Jan-Philipp Jahn, Janik Wolters +8

We report on a fast, bandwidth-tunable single-photon source based on an epitaxial GaAs quantum dot. Exploiting spontaneous spin-flip Raman transitions, single photons at nm…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 61 cited

High-yield fabrication of entangled photon emitters for hybrid quantum networking using high-temperature droplet epitaxy

Francesco Basso Basset, Sergio Bietti, Marcus Reindl +7

Several semiconductor quantum dot techniques have been investigated for the generation of entangled photon pairs. Among the other techniques, droplet epitaxy enables the control of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 119 cited

Phonon-assisted two-photon interference from remote quantum emitters

Marcus Reindl, Klaus D. Joens, Daniel Huber +5

Photonic quantum technologies are on the verge of finding applications in everyday life with quantum cryptography and the quantum internet on the horizon. Extensive research has be…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 20 cited

Two-photon interference from two blinking quantum emitters

Klaus D. Jöns, Katarina Stensson, Marcus Reindl +6

We investigate the effect of blinking on the two-photon interference measurement from two independent quantum emitters. We find that blinking significantly alters the statistics in…

quant-ph2016★ 277 cited

Highly indistinguishable and strongly entangled photons from symmetric GaAs quantum dots

Daniel Huber, Marcus Reindl, Yongheng Huo +5

The development of scalable sources of non-classical light is fundamental to unlock the technological potential of quantum photonics\cite{Kimble:Nat2008}. Among the systems under i…