Artificial atoms for quantum information processing
Arthur C. T. Thijssen, Stewart Carswell, Petros Androvitsaneas, A. B. Young, Edmund Harbord, Martín López‐García, D. M. Beggs, Jari Lindberg, Chengyong Hu, John Rarity, Ruth Oulton · 2014
Self-assembled quantum dots (QDs), nanosized semiconductors, are often known as artificial atoms due to their atomic-like spectra. For this reason they have long been proposed as a means to mediate interactions between single photons, a useful capability for photonic quantum information technology. I will describe the role of QDs in the latest developments in photonic quantum information technology (QIT), and highlight some of our progress in combining the atomic-like properties of QDs with photonic structures to perform a variety of functionalities.