Spatial pattern formation and polarization dynamics of a nonequilibrium spinor polariton condensate

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Borgh, Magnus O ^a   Keeling, Jonathan ^b   Berloff, Natalia G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77956306555     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.235302     Document Type: Article

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