The role of phonon scattering in the indistinguishability of photons emitted from semiconductor cavity QED systems

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kaer, P ^a   Gregersen, N ^a   Mork, J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE PROPERTIES; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; LINEAR OPTICS QUANTUM COMPUTING; MARKOVIAN APPROXIMATION; SEMICONDUCTOR CAVITY; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS;

PHONON SCATTERING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84875763802     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/3/035027     Document Type: Article

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