Few-photons model of the optical emission of semiconductor quantum dots

Marten Richter, Alexander Carmele, Anna Sitek, Andreas Knorr

Published 2009-04-22, updated 2009-07-10Version 2

The Jaynes-Cummings model provides a well established theoretical framework for single electron two level systems in a radiation field. Similar exactly solvable models for semiconductor light emitters such as quantum dots dominated by many particle interactions are not known. We access these systems by a generalized cluster expansion, the photon-probability-cluster-expansion: a reliable approach for few photon dynamics in many body electron systems. As a first application, we discuss vacuum Rabi flopping and show that their amplitude determines the number of electrons in the quantum dot.