From polariton condensates to highly photonic quantum degenerate states of bosonic matter

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1804-1809

  Aßmann, Marc ^a   Tempel, Jean Sebastian ^a   Veit, Franziska ^a   Bayer, Manfred ^a   Rahimi Iman, Arash ^b   Löffler, Andreas ^b   Höfling, Sven ^b   Reitzenstein, Stephan ^b   Worschech, Lukas ^b   Forchel, Alfred ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Photon statistics; Quantum optics; Semiconductor photon sources

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79952148680     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009847108     Document Type: Article

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