We theoretically study the polarization entanglement of photons generated by the biexciton cascade in a GaAs/InAs semiconductor quantum dot ͑QD͒ located in a nanocavity. A detailed analysis of the complex interplay between photon and carrier coherences and phonons which occurs during the cascade allows us to clearly identify the conditions under which entanglement is generated and destroyed. A quantum state tomography is evaluated for varying exciton fine-structure splittings. Also, by constructing an effective multiphonon Hamiltonian which couples the continuum of the QD-embedding wetting layer states to the quantum confined states, we investigate the relaxation of the biexciton and exciton states. This consistently introduces a temperature dependence to the cascade. Considering typical Stranski-Krastanov grown QDs for temperatures around 80 K the degree of entanglement starts to be affected by the dephasing of the exciton states and is ultimately lost above 100 K.

In this paper, we study the interaction between a Λ-type three-level atom and two quantized electromagnetic fields which are simultaneously injected in a bichromatic cavity surrounded by a Kerr medium in the presence of the field-field interaction (parametric down conversion) and detuning parameters. By applying a canonical transformation, the introduced model is reduced to a well-known form of the generalized Jaynes-Cummings model. Under particular initial conditions which may be prepared for the atom and the field, the time evolution of state vector of the entire system is analytically evaluated. Then, the dynamics of atom is studied through the evolution of the atomic population inversion. In addition, two different measures of entanglement between the tripartite system (three entities make the system: two field modes and one atom) i.e., von Neumann and linear entropy are investigated. Also, two kinds of entropic uncertainty relations, from which entropy squeezing can be obtained, are discussed. In each case, the influences of the detuning parameters and Kerr medium on the above nonclassicality features are analyzed via numerical results, in detail. It is illustrated that the amount of the above-mentioned physical phenomena can be tuned by choosing the evolved parameters, appropriately.

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In this paper, we derive the dynamical algebra of a particle confined in an infinite spherical well by using the f -deformed oscillator approach. We consider an exciton with definite angular momentum in a wide quantum dot interacting with two laser beams. We show that under the weak confinement condition, and quantization of the center-of-mass motion of exciton, the stationary state of it can be considered as a special kind of nonlinear coherent states which exhibits the quadrature squeezing.

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