Trapping excitons in a two-dimensional in-plane harmonic potential: Experimental evidence for equilibration of indirect excitons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Voros Z ^a   Snoke, D W ^a   Pfeiffer, L ^b   West, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRAPS; GAS CONDENSATES; HARMONIC GENERATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; HARMONIC POTENTIAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAPPING;

EXCITONS;

EID: 33745780959     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.016803     Document Type: Article

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