Figure 1

Sketches of different cascades of the biexciton-exciton decay. The sketches on the left side show the different states involved in the XX-X decay: biexciton (top panel), exciton (middle panel), and the QD-ground state (bottom panel). (a) All four possible transitions have different energies; no entanglement is possible. (b) The energies of XX and X are tuned into resonance (same colors-same energy): it is proposed that the time reordering allows restoring entanglement [10]. The transitions of the i-th generation in (a) and (b) emit linear (H _i , V _i ) polarized light. (c) FSS (Δ₁ ≈ 0) tuned to values smaller than the respective linewidth; the so-called which-path information encoded in the FSS is erased, and entanglement is achieved. The transitions in (c) emit circularly (σ⁺ , σ⁻) polarized light.