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Electron-phonon coupling in semiconductor quantum dots plays a significant role in determining the optical properties of excited electron-hole pairs. This chapter describes the theory of phonon modified light-matter interactions, with a focus on the polaron master equation approach for open quantum systems. The theory is applied to study various light-matter interaction regimes and emerging experiments in the presence of electron–acoustic-phonon scattering, including phonon-modified vacuum Rabi splitting, spontaneous emission, off-resonance cavity feeding, photoluminescence intensity, and field-driven Mollow triplets.
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This work was supported by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Queen’s University. It is a pleasure to acknowledge Peter Michler, Stefanie Weiler, Ata Ulhaq, Sven Ulrich, Fabian Hargart, and Michael Jetter for ongoing collaborations and for supplying some of the experimental data shown in this chapter. We acknowledge Chiranjeeb Roy and Ronchun Ge for discussions and for some of their contributions on the polaron ME work. We also thank Andreas Knorr and Mark Fox for useful discussions.
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Roy-Choudhury, K., Hughes, S. (2017). Theory of Phonon Dressed Light-Matter Interactions and Resonance Fluorescence in Quantum Dot Cavity Systems. In: Michler, P. (eds) Quantum Dots for Quantum Information Technologies. Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56378-7_2
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