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View SchemaSingle photo-electron trapping, storage, and detection in a one-electron quantum dot
| Authors | Deepak Sethu Rao, Thomas Szkopek, Hans Daniel Robinson, Eli Yablonovitch, Hong-Wen Jiang |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0410094 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0410094 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.2134888 |
| Journal | J. Appl. Phys. 98, 114507 (2005) |
Abstract
There has been considerable progress in electro-statically emptying, and re-filling, quantum dots with individual electrons. Typically the quantum dot is defined by electrostatic gates on a GaAs/AlGaAs modulation doped heterostructure. We report the filling of such a quantum dot by a single photo-electron, originating from an individual photon. The electrostatic dot can be emptied and reset in a controlled fashion before the arrival of each photon. The trapped photo-electron is detected by a point contact transistor integrated adjacent to the electrostatic potential trap. Each stored photo-electron causes a persistent negative step in the transistor channel current. Such a controllable, benign, single photo-electron detector could allow for information transfer between flying photon qubits and stored electron qubits.
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