Quantum nature of a strongly coupled single quantum dot-cavity system

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7130, 2007, Pages 896-899

  Hennessy, K ^a,b   Badolato, A ^a   Winger, M ^a   Gerace, D ^a   Atature M ^a   Gulde, S ^a   Falt S ^a   Hu, E L ^b   Imamoglu A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

CORRELATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODYNAMICS; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRIC FIELD; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 33847240908     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05586     Document Type: Article

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