A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Phonon-induced effects in quantum dot absorption and resonance fluorescence with a hierarchy of pure states
Authors: Toivonen, Sebastian; Luoma, Kimmo
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Publication year: 2025
Journal:: Physical Review B
Article number: 125419
Volume: 112
ISSN: 2469-9950
eISSN: 2469-9969
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/rdv5-z6pj
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1103/rdv5-z6pj
Preprint address: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20598
We investigate a quantum dot (QD) system coupled to a vibrational environment with a super-Ohmic spectral density and weakly coupled to a leaky cavity mode, a model relevant for semiconductor-based single-photon sources. The phonon coupling induces dephasing and broadens the absorption and emission line shapes, while the weakly coupled cavity mode leads to effective driving of the QD. To capture non-Markovian effects, we use non-Markovian quantum state diffusion and its extension the hierarchy of pure states to compute multitime correlation functions underlying absorption and resonance fluorescence spectra. We present numerical results for the absorption spectra at strong phonon coupling and finite temperature as well as for resonance fluorescence spectra at varying phonon coupling strengths and temperatures and analyze the visibility of the resonance fluorescence spectra to provide insights into how phonon coupling and thermal effects influence the spectral features.
Funding information in the publication:
S.T. acknowledges the funding from QDOC pilot PhD program.