Tunable Raman photons in singly charged p-doped quantum dots

The obtention of spontaneous Raman photons is analyzed in singly charged p-doped quantum dots in the absence of an external magnetic field. The use of a far detuned single driving laser allows to obtain a Raman photon line which exhibits subnatural linewidth, and whose center can be tuned by changing the detuning and/or the Rabi frequency of the driving field. The Raman photons are produced along the undriven transition and they arise from the weak interaction of the trion states with the nuclear spins. The operating point for the gate voltage of the heterostructure can also be used to modify the linewidth and the peak value of the fluorescent signal.

Fano-Rashba effect in quantum dots

We consider the electronic transport through a Rashba quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads. We show that the interference of localized electron states with resonant electron states leads to the appearance of the Fano-Rashba effect. This effect occurs due to the interference of bound levels of spin-polarized electrons with the continuum of electronic states with an opposite spin polarization. We investigate this Fano-Rashba effect as a function of the applied magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling.

Quantum simulation of a topological Mott insulator with Rydberg atoms in a Lieb lattice

We propose a realistic scheme to quantum simulate the so-far experimentally unobserved topological Mott insulator phase-an interaction-driven topological insulator-using cold atoms in an optical Lieb lattice. To this end, we study a system of spinless fermions in a Lieb lattice, exhibiting repulsive nearest-and next-to-nearest-neighbor interactions and derive the associated zero-temperature phase diagram within mean-field approximation. In particular, we analyze how the interactions can dynamically generate a charge density wave ordered, a nematic, and a topologically nontrivial quantum anomalous Hall phase. We characterize the topology of the different phases by the Chern number and discuss the possibility of phase coexistence. Based on the identified phases, we propose a realistic implementation of this model using cold Rydberg-dressed atoms in an optical lattice. The scheme, which allows one to access, in particular, the topological Mott insulator phase, robustly and independently of its exact position in parameter space, merely requires global, always-on off-resonant laser coupling to Rydberg states and is feasible with state-of-the-art experimental techniques that have already been demonstrated in the laboratory.