Graphene as a tunable THz reservoir for shaping the Mollow triplet of an artificial atom via plasmonic effects

Abstract

Using a realistic quantum master equation, we show that the resonance fluorescence spectra of a two-level artificial atom (quantum dot) can be tuned by adjusting its photonic local density of states via biasing one or more graphene monolayers. The structured photon reservoir is included using a photon Green function theory which fully accounts for the loss and dispersion. The field-driven Mollow triplet spectrum can be actively controlled by the graphene bias in the THz frequency regime. We also consider the effect of a dielectric support environment and multiple graphene layers on the emitted fluorescence. Finally, thermal bath effects are considered and are shown to be important for low THz frequencies.