title: Effect of mechanical strain on the optical properties of quantum dots: controlling exciton shape, orientation, and phase with a mechanical strain.
abstract: We show how a nanomechanical strain can be used to dynamically reengineer the optics of quantum dots, giving a tool to manipulate mechanoexciton shape, orientation, fine structure splitting, and optical transitions, transfer carriers between dots, and interact qubits for quantum processing. Most importantly, a nanomechanical strain reengineers both the magnitude and phase of the exciton exchange coupling to tune exchange splittings, change the phase of spin mixing, and rotate the polarization of mechanoexcitons, providing phase and energy control of excitons.
authors.affiliation: Atomic Physics Division and Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8423, USA. garnett.bryant@nist.gov
authors.forename: Garnett W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Bryant
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zieliński
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Malkova
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sims
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jaskólski
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aizpurua