Exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensation: Advances and issues

International Journal of Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 4-8, 2010, Pages 668-685

  Richard, Maxime ^a   Kasprzak, Jacek ^b   Baas, Augustin ^c   Kundermann, Stefan ^c   Lagoudakis, Konstantinos G ^c   Wouters, Michiel ^c   Carusotto, Iacopo ^d   André, Régis ^a   Deveaud Plédran, Benoit ^c   Dang, Le Si ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bose einstein condensation; Microcavity; Polariton; Quantised vortices; Strong coupling; Superfluidity

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATE; MICROCAVITIES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; VORTEX FLOW;

EXCITON-POLARITON; GRENOBLE; LONG RANGE ORDERS; POLARITON CONDENSATES; POLARITONS; STRONG COUPLING; SWITZERLAND;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION;

EID: 77649150224     PISSN: 14757435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNT.2010.031738     Document Type: Article

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