Dynamic dipole-dipole interactions between excitons in quantum dots of different sizes

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 318-327

  Matsueda, Hideaki ^a   Leosson, Kristjan ^b,c   Xu, Zhangcheng ^b   Hvam, Jorn M ^b   Ducommun, Yann ^d,e   Hartmann, Arno ^d   Kapon, Eli ^d  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Micro Managed Photons A/S   (Denmark)

^d Dept of Phys Swiss Fed I   (Switzerland)

^e WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microphotoluminescence ( PL); Quantum dots (QDs); Quantum gates; Resonance dynamic dipole dipole interaction (RDDDI); Virtual photons (VPHs)

Indexed keywords

EXCITONS; HAMILTONIANS; ION EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

MICROPHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM GATES; RESONANCE DYNAMIC DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTION (RDDDI); VIRTUAL PHOTONS (VPH);

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 2942741174     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2004.828559     Document Type: Article

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