Power-law decay of the spatial correlation function in exciton-polariton condensates

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

Volumn 109, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6467-6472

  Roumpos, Georgios ^a,j   Lohse, Michael ^a,b   Nitsche, Wolfgang H ^a   Keeling, Jonathan ^c   Szymańska, Marzena Hanna ^d,e   Littlewood, Peter B ^f,g   Löffler, Andreas ^h   Höfling, Sven ^h   Worschechh, Lukas ^h   Forchel, Alfred ^h   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a,i  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Quantum well excitons; Semiconductor microcavities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEREZINSKII KOSTERLITZ THOULESS THEORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXCITON POLARITON CONDENSATE; INTERFEROMETER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SPATIAL CORRELATION POWER LAW DECAY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84860117522     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107970109     Document Type: Article

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