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- Title
Superradiance of quantum dots.
- Authors
Scheibner, Michael; Schmidt, Thomas; Worschech, Lukas; Forchel, Alfred; Bacher, Gerd; Passow, Thorsten; Hommel, Detlef
- Abstract
In 1954, Dicke pointed out that the description of a spontaneously radiating gas has to include the fact that all atoms or molecules interact with a common radiation field. Consequently, the individual particles may not be considered as independent sources of radiation. In this regard, the question arises of whether quantum dot (QD) systems may also exhibit signatures of cooperative radiation and hence have to be considered as coupled quantum systems. Here, we present experimental evidence for a long-range electromagnetic interaction between laterally arranged QDs. The experimental results suggest that the QDs do not behave like independent objects as long as they form an ensemble of QDs. By removing QDs from the sample, we found that the coupling was reduced. The range of interaction is shown to be at least 150 nm. This may therefore provide a mechanism to couple discrete quantum objects on a large scale.
- Subjects
SUPERRADIANCE; QUANTUM dots; RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC interactions; QUANTUM electronics
- Publication
Nature Physics, 2007, Vol 3, Issue 2, p106
- ISSN
1745-2473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nphys494