Bénard-von Kármán vortex street in an exciton-polariton superfluid

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Saito, Hiroki ^a   Aioi, Tomohiko ^a   Kadokura, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

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EID: 84863665288     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.014504     Document Type: Article

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