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Photon Antibunching in the Photoluminescence Spectra of a Single Carbon Nanotube

Högele, Alexander
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Galland, Christophe  
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Winger, Martin
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2008
Physical Review Letters

We report the first observation of photon antibunching in the photoluminescence from single carbon nanotubes. The emergence of a fast luminescence decay component under strong optical excitation indicates that Auger processes are partially responsible for inhibiting two-photon generation. Additionally, the presence of exciton localization at low temperatures ensures that nanotubes emit photons predominantly one by one. The fact that multiphoton emission probability can be smaller than 5% suggests that carbon nanotubes could be used as a source of single photons for applications in quantum cryptography.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.217401
Author(s)
Högele, Alexander
Galland, Christophe  
Winger, Martin
Imamoğlu, Atac
Date Issued

2008

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

100

Issue

21

Article Number

217401

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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GR-GA  
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December 4, 2017
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