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Dual effects of disorder on the strongly-coupled system composed of a single quantum dot and a photonic crystal L3 cavity

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Light-matter interaction in the strong coupling regime enables light control at the single-photon level. We develop numerical method and analytical expressions to calculate the decay kinetics of an initially excited two-level quantum emitter in dielectric nanostructure and single-mode cavity, respectively. We use these methods to discover the dual effects of disorder on the stronglycoupled system composed of a single quantum dot and a photonic crystal L3 cavity. The quality factor is sensitive to disorder, while the g factor and vacuum Rabi splitting are robust against disorder. A small amount of disorder may either decrease or increase the light localization and the light-matter interaction. Our methods offer flexible and efficient theoretical tools for the investigation of light-matter interaction, especially cavity quantum electrodynamics. Our findings significantly lower the requirements for optimization effort and fabrication precision and open up many promising practical possibilities.

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    GengYan Chen, YongZhu Chen & ZhanXu Chen

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    RenMing Liu, GuiXin Zhu & Xue-Hua Wang

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Chen, G., Liu, JF., Yu, YC. et al. Dual effects of disorder on the strongly-coupled system composed of a single quantum dot and a photonic crystal L3 cavity. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 62, 64211 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-018-9290-5

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