Unidirectional quantum transport in optically driven V-type quantum dot chains

Oliver Kaestle; Emil Vosmar Denning; Jesper Mørk; Andreas Knorr; Alexander Carmele

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.115418

Unidirectional quantum transport in optically driven V-type quantum dot chains

Oliver Kaestle^*, Emil Vosmar Denning, Jesper Mørk, Andreas Knorr, Alexander Carmele

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Technical University of Berlin

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We predict a mechanism for achieving complete population inversion in a continuously driven InAs/GaAs semiconductor quantum dot featuring V-type transitions. This highly nonequilibrium steady state is enabled by the interplay between V-type interband transitions and a non-Markovian decoherence mechanism, introduced by acoustic phonons. The population trapping mechanism is generalized to a chain of coupled emitters. Exploiting the population inversion, we predict unidirectional excitation transport from one end of the chain to the other without external bias, independent of the unitary interdot coupling mechanism.

Original language	English
Article number	115418
Journal	Physical Review B
Volume	103
Issue number	11
Number of pages	12
ISSN	2469-9950
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.115418
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2021

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O.K., A.K., and A.C. acknowledge support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through SFB 910 project B1 (Project No. 163436311). E.V.D. and J.M. acknowledge support from the Danish National Research Foundation (Grant No. DNRF147). E.V.D. acknowledges funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

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