Quantum dot Rabi rotations beyond the weak exciton-phonon coupling regime

Details Quantum dot Rabi rotations beyond the weak exciton-phonon coupling regime Quantum dot Rabi rotations beyond the weak exciton-phonon coupling regime

2010-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/1009.1155v2

New J. Phys. 12, 113042 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

24 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome. Published version, changes to formatting and minor alterations to text, reference added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113042

We study the excitonic dynamics of a driven quantum dot under the influence of a phonon environment, going beyond the weak exciton-phonon coupling approximation. By combining the polaron transform and time-local projection operator techniques we develop a master equation that can be valid over a much larger range of exciton-phonon coupling strengths and temperatures than the standard weak-coupling approach. For the experimentally relevant parameters considered here, we find that the weak-coupling and polaron theories give very similar predictions for low temperatures (below 30 K), while at higher temperatures we begin to see discrepancies between the two. This is due to the fact that, unlike the polaron approach, the weak-coupling theory is incapable of capturing multiphonon effects, while it also does not properly account for phonon-induced renormalisation of the driving frequency. In particular, we find that the weak-coupling theory often overestimates the damping rate when compared to that predicted by the polaron theory. Finally, we extend our theory to include non-Markovian effects and find that, for the parameters considered here, they have little bearing on the excitonic Rabi rotations when plotted as a function of pulse area.

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