Optical Generation and Control of Quantum Coherence in Semiconductor Nanostructures; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Carrier dynamics in quantum dots; Chapter 2 Decoherence of intraband transitions in InAs quantum dots; Chapter 3 Spectral diffusion dephasing and motional narrowing in single semiconductor quantumdots; Part II Optically-induced spin coherence in quantum dots; Chapter 4 Carrier spin dynamics in self-assembled quantum dots; Chapter 5 Optically induced spin rotations in quantum dots
Summary
The unprecedented control of coherence that can be exercised in quantum optics of atoms and molecules has stimulated increasing efforts in extending it to solid-state systems. One motivation to exploit the coherent phenomena comes from the emergence of the quantum information paradigm, however many more potential device applications ranging from novel lasers to spintronics are all bound up with issues in coherence. The book focuses on recent advances in the optical control of coherence in excitonic and polaritonic systems as model systems for the complex semiconductor dynamics towards the goal