Deterministic and Robust Generation of Single Photons from a Single Quantum Dot with 99.5% Indistinguishability Using Adiabatic Rapid Passage
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Single photons are attractive candidates of quantum bits (qubits) for quantum computation and are the best messengers in quantum networks. Future scalable, fault-tolerant photonic quantum technologies demand both stringently high levels of photon indistinguishability and generation efficiency. Here, we demonstrate deterministic and robust generation of pulsed resonance fluorescence single photons from a single semiconductor quantum dot using adiabatic rapid passage, a method robust against fluctuation of driving pulse area and dipole moments of solid-state emitters. The emitted photons are background-free, have a vanishing two-photon emission probability of 0.3% and a raw (corrected) two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel interference visibility of 97.9% (99.5%), reaching a precision that places single photons at the threshold for fault-tolerant surface-code quantum computing. This single-photon source can be readily scaled up to multiphoton entanglement and used for quantum metrology, boson sampling, and linear optical quantum computing.
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- Authors
- Wei, Y.-J., He, Y.-M., Chen, M.-C., Hu, Y.-N., He, Y., Wu, D., Schneider, C., Kamp, M., Höfling, S., Lu, C.-Y., & Pan, J.-W.
- Affiliations
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, & Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- University of Würzburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Lu, Chao-Yang
- Pan, Jian-Wei
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nano Letters
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2014-10-30
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 6515-6519
- ISSN
- 1530-6984 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-6992
- OpenAlex
- W1998810045
- Semantic Scholar
- 3f265983ce33c406410b04312cc4aaf36873b331
- Cited by
- 169
- References
- 46
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- 9.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nano Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- St Andrews Research Repository (St Andrews Research Repository) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2011CB921300, 2013CB933300)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (211134KYSB20130025)
- Freistaat Bayern
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Keywords
- single-photon sources, semiconductor quantum dots, adiabatic rapid passage, photon indistinguishability, resonance fluorescence, deterministic photon generation, multi-photon entanglement, quantum metrology, boson sampling, linear optical quantum computing
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