Electrical control of the exciton fine structure of a quantum dot molecule

We electrically control the coherent mixing of the optically bright spin states of excitons confined in InAs/GaAs quantum dot molecules. By tunnel coupling two quantum dots, using a vertical electric field, the exciton fine structure splitting and eigenstate orientation relative to the crystal lattice are tuned. We model the electric field dependent anisotropic electron-hole exchange interaction accurately and propose that the controllable mixing of the spin states will enable electrically controlled quantum operations on exciton spin qubits.