Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in a photonic crystal nanocavity
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- 1 November 2004
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 432 (7014), 200-203
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03119
Abstract
Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) systems allow the study of a variety of fundamental quantum-optics phenomena, such as entanglement, quantum decoherence and the quantum–classical boundary1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Such systems also provide test beds for quantum information science. Nearly all strongly coupled cavity QED experiments have used a single atom in a high-quality-factor (high-Q) cavity. Here we report the experimental realization of a strongly coupled system in the solid state: a single quantum dot embedded in the spacer of a nanocavity, showing vacuum-field Rabi splitting exceeding the decoherence linewidths of both the nanocavity and the quantum dot. This requires a small-volume cavity and an atomic-like two-level system5,10. The photonic crystal11 slab nanocavity—which traps photons when a defect is introduced inside the two-dimensional photonic bandgap by leaving out one or more holes12—has both high Q and small modal volume V, as required for strong light–matter interactions13. The quantum dot has two discrete energy levels with a transition dipole moment much larger than that of an atom14,15,16, and it is fixed in the nanocavity during growth.Keywords
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