A Lévy flight for light

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7194, 2008, Pages 495-498

  Barthelemy, Pierre ^a   Bertolotti, Jacopo ^a   Wiersma, Diederik S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; DIFFUSION; EARTHQUAKE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; LIGHT SCATTERING; PROBABILITY; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SOUND PROPAGATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; FLIGHT; FORAGING; HEAT; HUMAN; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL ROTATION; OPTICS; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 44349187222     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06948     Document Type: Article

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