Fast and selective phonon-assisted state preparation of a quantum dot by adiabatic undressing

@article{Barth2016FastAS,
  title={Fast and selective phonon-assisted state preparation of a quantum dot by adiabatic undressing},
  author={Andreas M. Barth and Sebastian Luker and Alexei Vagov and Doris E. Reiter and Tilmann Kuhn and Vollrath Martin Axt},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2016},
  volume={94}
}
We investigate theoretically the temporal behavior of a quantum dot under off-resonant optical excitation targeted at fast acoustic phonon-assisted state preparation. We demonstrate that in a preparation process driven by short laser pulses three processes can be identified: a dressing of the states during the switch on of the laser pulse, a subsequent phonon-induced relaxation and an undressing at the end of the pulse. By analyzing excitation scenarios with different pulse shapes we highlight… 
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