Macroscopic entanglement and violation of Bell's inequalities between two spatially separated quantum dots in a planar photonic crystal system

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11505-11514

  Yao, P ^a   Hughes, S ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

(270.5580) Quantum electrodynamics; (350.4238) Nanophotonics and photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; EXCITONS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BELL'S INEQUALITY; INDUCED TRANSMISSION; MACROSCOPIC ENTANGLEMENT; PERIODIC WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; QUANTUM DOT EXCITONS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; VACUUM RABI SPLITTING;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650538941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011505     Document Type: Article

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