Internal motions of a quasiparticle governing its ultrafast nonlinear response

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7173, 2007, Pages 1210-1213

  Gaal, P ^a   Kuehn, W ^a   Reimann, K ^a   Woerner, M ^a   Elsaesser, T ^a   Hey, R ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA; ELECTRON; ICE; ION;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; INFRARED RADIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 37549055481     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06399     Document Type: Article

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