Semiconductor Quantum Dots tagged posts

Forging a Dream Material with Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Image showing the bonding between quantum dots
Figure showing how the bonding between quantum dots contributes to electrical conductivity

Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and collaborators have succeeded in creating a “superlattice” of semiconductor quantum dots that can behave like a metal, potentially imparting exciting new properties to this popular class of materials.

Semiconducting colloidal quantum dots have garnered tremendous research interest due to their special optical properties, which arise from the quantum confinement effect...

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High-visibility Quantum Interference between Two Independent Semiconductor Quantum Dots achieved

Dawn of solid-state quantum networks
Experimental configuration of quantum interference between two independent solid-state QD single-photon sources separated by 302 km fiber. DM: dichromatic mirror, LP: long pass, BP: band pass, BS: beam splitter, SNSPD: superconducting nanowire single- photon detector, HWP: half-wave plate, QWP: quarter-wave plate, PBS: polarization beam splitter. Credit: Advanced Photonics (2022). DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.4.6.066003

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics celebrated the fundamental interest of quantum entanglement, and also envisioned the potential applications in “the second quantum revolution”—a new age when we are able to manipulate the weirdness of quantum mechanics, including quantum superposition and entanglement...

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