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Entangled photon pairs from the optical decay of biexcitons

Savasta, Salvatore and Martino, Giovanna and Girlanda, Raffaello (1999) Entangled photon pairs from the optical decay of biexcitons. Solid state communications, 111 (9). pp. 495-500. ISSN 0038-1098

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Abstract

We show that it is possible to transfer the exciton-exciton Coulomb correlation to photons, producing thus pairs of near-gap photons with a high degree of quantum entanglement. The photon pairs emerge from the spontaneous optical decay of biexcitons into two polaritons. The pair intensity-correlations, calculated in the low density limit for a CuCl slab, exhibit quantum features which can be observed by coincidence detection.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: A. Semiconductors; D. Optical properties; E. Nonlinear optics
Subjects: M.U.S. - Contributi Scientifici > 02 - Scienze fisiche
Depositing User: Stage ICCU
Date Deposited: 30 May 2005
Last Modified: 13 Apr 2010 11:20
URI: http://cab.unime.it/mus/id/eprint/316

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