Macroscopic coherence of a single exciton state in an organic quantum wire

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-35

  Dubin, François ^a,b   Melet, Romain ^a   Barisien, Thierry ^a   Grousson, Roger ^a   Legrand, Laurent ^a   Schott, Michel ^a   Voliotis, Valia ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN LENGTH; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM COHERENCE; MANY-BODY SYSTEMS; MICRO-CAVITY POLARITONS; QUASI-PARTICLE STATE; SPATIAL COHERENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL EXCITONS;

EXCITONS;

EID: 33644639512     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys196     Document Type: Article

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