Simultaneous anti-bunched and super-bunched photons from a GaAs Quantum dot in a dielectric metasurface

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Main Authors: Park, Sanghyeok, Mitrofanov, Oleg, Abeywickrama, Kusal M., Prescott, Samuel, Yu, Jaeyeon, Malek, Stephanie C, Jung, Hyunseung, Renteria, Emma, Addamane, Sadhvikas, Javadi, Alisa, Brener, Igal, Iyer, Prasad P
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author Park, Sanghyeok
Mitrofanov, Oleg
Abeywickrama, Kusal M.
Prescott, Samuel
Yu, Jaeyeon
Malek, Stephanie C
Jung, Hyunseung
Renteria, Emma
Addamane, Sadhvikas
Javadi, Alisa
Brener, Igal
Iyer, Prasad P
author_facet Park, Sanghyeok
Mitrofanov, Oleg
Abeywickrama, Kusal M.
Prescott, Samuel
Yu, Jaeyeon
Malek, Stephanie C
Jung, Hyunseung
Renteria, Emma
Addamane, Sadhvikas
Javadi, Alisa
Brener, Igal
Iyer, Prasad P
contents Semiconductor quantum dots host a rich manifold of excitonic complexes, including neutral excitons that emit anti-bunched single photons and charged exciton complexes capable of producing super-bunched photons via cascade emission. Accessing both emission regimes from a single emitter would open routes to novel quantum protocols, including advanced quantum imaging. In practice, however, emission from charged exciton complexes is intrinsically weak, often orders of magnitude dimmer than neutral excitons, placing simultaneous dual-mode operation out of reach. Here, we overcome this limitation by embedding the quantum dot in a dielectric Mie-resonant metasurface that provides order-of-magnitude photoluminescence enhancement across both neutral and charged exciton transitions of a single GaAs quantum dot. Under identical non-resonant pumping conditions, the emission from the neutral exciton yields anti-bunched emission ($g^{(2)}(0) < 0.5$) and the emission from positively charged exciton complexes shows super-bunched emission ($g^{(2)}(0) > 3.5$) with comparable count rates (~12 kHz). Crucially, super-bunching emerges only when charged exciton emission spectrally overlaps with the Mie resonances and vanishes in un-patterned slabs, demonstrating that photonic engineering, is essential for accessing these weak quantum light states. These results demonstrate a scalable, position-tolerant platform for harnessing the full excitonic structure of solid-state emitters.
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spellingShingle Simultaneous anti-bunched and super-bunched photons from a GaAs Quantum dot in a dielectric metasurface
Park, Sanghyeok
Mitrofanov, Oleg
Abeywickrama, Kusal M.
Prescott, Samuel
Yu, Jaeyeon
Malek, Stephanie C
Jung, Hyunseung
Renteria, Emma
Addamane, Sadhvikas
Javadi, Alisa
Brener, Igal
Iyer, Prasad P
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Optics
Quantum Physics
Semiconductor quantum dots host a rich manifold of excitonic complexes, including neutral excitons that emit anti-bunched single photons and charged exciton complexes capable of producing super-bunched photons via cascade emission. Accessing both emission regimes from a single emitter would open routes to novel quantum protocols, including advanced quantum imaging. In practice, however, emission from charged exciton complexes is intrinsically weak, often orders of magnitude dimmer than neutral excitons, placing simultaneous dual-mode operation out of reach. Here, we overcome this limitation by embedding the quantum dot in a dielectric Mie-resonant metasurface that provides order-of-magnitude photoluminescence enhancement across both neutral and charged exciton transitions of a single GaAs quantum dot. Under identical non-resonant pumping conditions, the emission from the neutral exciton yields anti-bunched emission ($g^{(2)}(0) < 0.5$) and the emission from positively charged exciton complexes shows super-bunched emission ($g^{(2)}(0) > 3.5$) with comparable count rates (~12 kHz). Crucially, super-bunching emerges only when charged exciton emission spectrally overlaps with the Mie resonances and vanishes in un-patterned slabs, demonstrating that photonic engineering, is essential for accessing these weak quantum light states. These results demonstrate a scalable, position-tolerant platform for harnessing the full excitonic structure of solid-state emitters.
title Simultaneous anti-bunched and super-bunched photons from a GaAs Quantum dot in a dielectric metasurface
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Optics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03186