Electric-field control of exciton fine structure in alloyed nanowire quantum dot molecules

Phys. Rev. B 104, 195411 (2021)

This work extends electric-field control of exciton fine structure to alloyed nanowire quantum-dot molecules, where alloy randomness itself becomes part of the physics. It shows that nominally identical structures can exhibit qualitatively different field evolution of excitonic spectra.

Keywords: nanowire quantum dots, quantum dot molecules, fine-structure splitting

Main result: alloy randomness can both generate and reshape fine-structure splitting in nanowire quantum-dot molecules under electric field. Yet selected realizations still allow sub-µeV splitting without losing optical activity.

PDF: PhysRevB.104.195411.pdf

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.195411

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