American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, 2(14), p. 456-463, 2014
DOI: 10.1021/nl403364h
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In this work we propose the use of the Hanbury-Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometric technique and a switchable two-color excitation method for evaluating the exciton and non-correlated electron-hole dynamics associated with single photon emission from indium arsenide (InAs) self-assembled quantum dots (QDs). Using a microstate master equation model we demonstrate that our single QDs are described by non-linear exciton dynamics. The simultaneous detection of two-color, single photon emission, from InAs QDs using these non-linear dynamics was used to design a NOT AND (NAND) logic transference function. This computational functionality combines the advantages of working with light/photons as input/output device parameters (all-optical system) and that of a nanodevice (QD size of ∼20 nm) while also providing high optical sensitivity (ultralow optical power operational requirements). These system features represent an important and interesting step towards the development of new prototypes for the incoming quantum information technologies.