Spin measurement using cycling transitions of a two-electron quantum dot molecule

Abstract: Two-electron charged self-assembled quantum dot molecules exhibit a decoherence-avoiding singlet-triplet qubit subspace and an efficient spin-photon interface. Here, we demonstrate that the cycling transitions originating from auxiliary ground states in the same system allow for an efficient optical read-out of a singlet-triplet qubit. By implementing a spin-selective state transfer to the auxiliary state using a resonant laser field, we observe an improvement approaching two orders of magnitude in fidelity as compared to spin measurement by light scattering directly from the qubit states. Embedding the quantum dot molecule inside a low quality-factor micro-cavity structure should enable single-shot qubit read-out.