Quantum entanglement in lateral GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dot molecules

Abstract

We calculate the excitonic structure of pairs of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots forming lateral molecules and obtain the entanglement of exciton states. The following advantages of the lateral geometry over the vertical one are found: (1) The energy structures of the dots forming a molecule can be in principle identical. (2) Comparable tunneling of electrons and holes ensures a high entanglement of antisymmetric excitons. A drawback of existing structures are very low tunneling energies, which make the entanglement vulnerable against differences in the sizes and shapes of both dots. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.