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Enhanced refractive index without absorption in semiconductor quantum dots

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We investigate the absorptive–dispersive properties of a weak probe field in a ladder-type quantum dot. It is found that the enhanced refraction index without absorption can be easily controlled via adjusting properly the corresponding parameters of the system. Our scheme may provide some new possibilities for technological applications in dispersion compensation and solid-state quantum communication for quantum information processing.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11205001), Student Research Training Program of Anhui University (Grant No. KYXL2014021), and the doctoral scientific research foundation of Anhui University.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China

    Nan Chen, Tao Shui, Biqi Qian, Zhiping Wang & Benli Yu

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Chen, N., Shui, T., Qian, B. et al. Enhanced refractive index without absorption in semiconductor quantum dots. Quantum Inf Process 14, 2387–2396 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-015-0996-y

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