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A new way to correlate photons

Resonance fluorescence from a semiconductor quantum dot unravels a rich two-photon landscape of correlations, and may be used to test their quantum nonlocality.

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Figure 1: The resonant excitation of a two-level system (here a quantum dot) leads to the formation of the Mollow triplet.

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Laussy, F. A new way to correlate photons. Nature Mater 16, 398–399 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4884

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