Overcoming phonon-induced dephasing for indistinguishable photon sources

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Close, Tom ^a   Gauger, Erik M ^a,b   Lovett, Brendon W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOHERENCE; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; MEASUREMENT-BASED; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; PHONON-INDUCED DEPHASING; PHOTON PRODUCTION; PHOTON SOURCES; QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM MASTER EQUATIONS; RAMAN PROCESS; RATE OF PRODUCTIONS; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; THREE-LEVEL;

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES;

EID: 84870417750     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/113004     Document Type: Article

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