%0 Journal Article
%T Monitoring Single Scattering Events in Single Quantum Dots
%A Ulrich Hohenester
%J Physics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/S0038-1098(01)00056-4
%X The quantum-jump approach is used for a theoretical description of resonance luminescence from a {\em single} semiconductor quantum dot in contact with its solid-state environment. For continuous excitation of the single-exciton groundstate the luminescence exhibits bright periods, where photons are spontaneously emitted from the exciton decay, which are interrupted by dark periods when one electron or hole suffers a spin flip. It is shown that continuously monitored resonance luminescence provides a very sensitive measure of such rare single scattering events in quantum dots.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102054v1