Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a polariton and photon laser

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ohadi, H ^a   Kammann, E ^a   Liew, T C H ^b   Lagoudakis, K G ^c   Kavokin, A V ^a,d   Lagoudakis, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics   (Italy)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION PULSE; LANDAU CRITERION; LONG RANGE ORDERS; PHOTON LASERS; POLARITONS; POLARIZATION NOISE; SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCAVITIES; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION; SINGLE-SHOT MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING; STOCHASTIC ORDER; STOKES VECTOR; UNDER PULSED EXCITATIONS; WEAK-COUPLING REGIME;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; PHONONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84863501236     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.016404     Document Type: Article

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