Probing microcavity polariton superfluidity through resonant rayleigh scattering

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Carusotto, Iacopo ^a,b   Ciuti, Cristiano ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FREQUENCIES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; POLARIMETERS; QUENCHING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; TUNING;

ANALOG EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS; BOGOLIUBOV-LIKE EXCITATIONS; EXCITATION ANGLE; RESONANT RAYLEIGH SCATTERING (RRS);

RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

EID: 19644400811     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.166401     Document Type: Article

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