Lévy flights of photons in hot atomic vapours

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 602-605

  Mercadier, N ^a   Guerin, W ^a   Chevrollier, M ^b   Kaiser, R ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION; ATOMIC VAPOUR; ELEMENTARY PROCESS; GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; NON-GAUSSIAN FLUCTUATIONS; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; POWER-LAW CHARACTERISTICS; RANDOM WALK;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 68749098141     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1286     Document Type: Article

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