Input-Output Analysis of Quantum Dot SUPER Excitation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28470v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:58:57 GMT
• Title: Input-Output Analysis of Quantum Dot SUPER Excitation
• Abstract summary: Swing-UP scheme allows robust and close to 100% excitation of a two-level quantum emitter using only red detuned light.<n>We analyze the underlying counterintuitive dynamics using a full quantum input-output description of the in- and outgoing light pulses.<n>We confirm that in free space, a sufficiently high pulse photon number, much larger than one, is required to achieve high-fidelity inversion.
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• Abstract: The Swing-UP of the quantum EmitteR population (SUPER) two-color pulsed excitation scheme allows for robust and close to 100\% excitation of a two-level quantum emitter using only red detuned light. We analyze the underlying counterintuitive dynamics using a full quantum input-output description of the in- and outgoing light pulses for the case of two coherent free-space input pulses at realistic photon numbers. At the microscopic level, the SUPER mechanism exhibits its nonlinear three-photon Raman-type character, leading to a net photon-number change of $-2$ in one mode and $+1$ in the other, as was first guessed from cavity-enhanced model descriptions at low photon numbers. We confirm that in free space, a sufficiently high pulse photon number, much larger than one, is required to achieve high-fidelity inversion. To treat the large coherent-state amplitudes (photon numbers) relevant for SUPER, we extend the quantum input-output formalism to include a cumulant expansion approach. With an interaction-picture formulation, the few exchanged photons that govern the nontrivial dynamics enable direct full-quantum calculations in truncated Hilbert spaces, including treatments in a displacement frame and for initial Fock-state pulses.

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