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

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42 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantum Key Distribution with Entanglement-Swapped Photons from a Quantum Emitter

Michele B. Rota, Francesco Basso Basset, Alessandro Laneve +16

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a fundamental functionality of quantum networks. Extending its range requires quantum repeaters, a technology still under development and not yet…

quant-ph2026

Beyond Antibunching: Photon Correlation Analysis Reveals Blinking Origin

Patricia Kallert, Santiago Bermúdez-Feijóo, Giorgio De Pascalis +18

A variety of quantum emitters compete in the quest for the best single-photon source for photonic quantum technologies. Consequently, only a consistent approach to analyze the seco…

physics.optics2026

Planar metal-semiconductor Yagi-Uda type antennas for tunable narrow-linewidth quantum dot emitters

Ievgen Brytavskyi, Andreas Kitzmüller, Santanu Manna +12

Tunable photonic architectures that improve the extraction efficiency of light from embedded epitaxial quantum dots across a wide spectral range are key enablers for developing bri…

quant-ph2026

Towards Stirling cooler operable single-photon sources based on low-noise GaAs quantum dots

Maximilian Aigner, Jana Schlücking, Eva Schöll +15

For photonic quantum technology applications, sources capable of emitting photons with indistinguishability close to unity are essential. Ideally, these sources should not require…

quant-ph2026

Picosecond-resolved entanglement distribution over an urban free-space channel

Alessandro Laneve, Fabrizio Cienzo, Santiago Gomez +18

Time-evolving entangled states describe quantum particles whose correlations evolve in time according to a well-defined dynamics. Such states can be generated in a variety of physi…

physics.app-ph2025

Low-density InGaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Dots in Droplet-Etched Nanoholes

Saimon F. Covre Da Silva, Ailton J. Garcia, Maximilian Aigner +10

Over the past two decades, epitaxial semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have demonstrated very promising properties as sources of single photons and entangled photons on-demand. Amon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Few-electron spin qubits in optically active GaAs quantum dots

Peter Millington-Hotze, Petr Klenovsky, Harry E. Dyte +5

The knowledge of the energy spectrum completely defines the dynamics of a quantum system for a given initial state. This makes spectroscopy a key characterization technique when st…

quant-ph2025★ 10 cited

Electric-field control of photon indistinguishability in cascaded decays in quantum dots

Gabriel Undeutsch, Maximilian Aigner, Ailton J. Garcia +8

Photon indistinguishability, entanglement, and antibunching are key ingredients in quantum optics and photonics. Decay cascades in quantum emitters offer a simple method to create…

quant-ph2025

Passive Demultiplexed Two-photon State Generation from a Quantum Dot

Yusuf Karli, Iker Avila Arenas, Christian Schimpf +11

High-purity multi-photon states are essential for photonic quantum computing. Among existing platforms, semiconductor quantum dots offer a promising route to scalable and determini…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Storing quantum coherence in a quantum dot nuclear spin ensemble for over 100 milliseconds

Harry E. Dyte, Santanu Manna, Saimon F. Covre da Silva +2

States with long coherence are a crucial requirement for qubits and quantum memories. Nuclear spins in epitaxial quantum dots are a great candidate, offering excellent isolation fr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 1 cited

Experimental measurement of the reappearance of Rabi rotations in semiconductor quantum dots

L. Hanschke, T. K. Bracht, E. Schöll +11

Phonons in solid-state quantum emitters play a crucial role in their performance as photon sources in quantum technology. For resonant driving, phonons dampen the Rabi oscillations…

quant-ph2024

Robust Single-Photon Generation for Quantum Information Enabled by Stimulated Adiabatic Rapid Passage

Yusuf Karli, René Schwarz, Florian Kappe +11

The generation of single photons using solid-state quantum emitters is pivotal for advancing photonic quantum technologies, particularly in quantum communication. As the field cont…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Towards Photon-Number-Encoded High-dimensional Entanglement from a Sequentially Excited Quantum Three-Level System

Daniel A. Vajner, Nils D. Kewitz, Martin von Helversen +9

The sequential resonant excitation of a 2-level quantum system results in the emission of a state of light showing time-entanglement encoded in the photon-number-basis - notions th…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Tuning the coherent interaction of an electron qubit and a nuclear magnon

Noah Shofer, Leon Zaporski, Martin Hayhurst Appel +9

A central spin qubit interacting coherently with an ensemble of proximal spins can be used to engineer entangled collective states or a multi-qubit register. Making full use of thi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Intermediate Field Coupling of Single Epitaxial Quantum Dots to Plasmonic Waveguides

Michael Seidel, Yuhui Yang, Thorsten Schumacher +6

Key requirements for quantum plasmonic nanocircuits are reliable single-photon sources, high coupling efficiency to the plasmonic structures and low propagation losses. Self-assemb…

quant-ph2023

Highly indistinguishable single photons from droplet-etched GaAs quantum dots integrated in single-mode waveguides and beamsplitters

Florian Hornung, Ulrich Pfister, Stephanie Bauer +9

The integration of on-demand quantum emitters into photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has drawn much of attention in recent years, as it promises a scalable implementation of quan…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Post-fabrication tuning of circular Bragg resonators for enhanced emitter-cavity coupling

Tobias M. Krieger, Christian Weidinger, Thomas Oberleitner +12

Solid-state quantum emitters embedded in circular Bragg resonators are attractive due to their ability to emit quantum states of light with high brightness and low multi-photon pro…

physics.optics2023★ 17 cited

Polarized and Un-Polarized Emission from a Single Emitter in a Bullseye Resonator

Giora Peniakov, Quirin Buchinger, Mohamed Helal +12

We present polarized |S|=0.990.01, and unpolarized |S|=0.030.01 emission from a single emitter embedded in a single, cylindrically symmetric device design. We show that t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Quantum non-demolition measurement of an electron spin qubit through its low-energy many-body spin environment

Harry E. Dyte, George Gillard, Santanu Manna +3

The measurement problem dates back to the dawn of quantum mechanics. Here, we measure a quantum dot electron spin qubit through off-resonant coupling with thousands of redundant nu…

quant-ph2023★ 25 cited

Controlling the Photon Number Coherence of Solid-state Quantum Light Sources for Quantum Cryptography

Yusuf Karli, Daniel A. Vajner, Florian Kappe +14

Quantum communication networks rely on quantum cryptographic protocols including quantum key distribution (QKD) using single photons. A critical element regarding the security of Q…

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…

quant-ph2022★ 17 cited

Beyond the four-level model: Dark and hot states in quantum dots degrade photonic entanglement

Barbara Ursula Lehner, Tim Seidelmann, Gabriel Undeutsch +9

Entangled photon pairs are essential for a multitude of photonic quantum applications. To date, the best performing solid-state quantum emitters of entangled photons are semiconduc…

quant-ph2022★ 47 cited

A source of entangled photons based on a cavity-enhanced and strain-tuned GaAs quantum dot

Michele B. Rota, Tobias M. Krieger, Quirin Buchinger +21

A quantum-light source that delivers photons with a high brightness and a high degree of entanglement is fundamental for the development of efficient entanglement-based quantum-key…

quant-ph2022★ 9 cited

Signatures of the Optical Stark Effect on Entangled Photon Pairs from Resonantly-Pumped Quantum Dots

Francesco Basso Basset, Michele B. Rota, Mattia Beccaceci +12

Two-photon resonant excitation of the biexciton-exciton cascade in a quantum dot generates highly polarization-entangled photon pairs in a near-deterministic way. However, the ulti…