Geometrically locked vortex lattices in semiconductor quantum fluids

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tosi, G ^a,b   Christmann, G ^a   Berloff, N G ^c   Tsotsis, P ^d,e   Gao, T ^d,e   Hatzopoulos, Z ^d   Savvidis, P G ^d,e   Baumberg, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

CONDENSATE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VORTICITY;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; QUANTUM FLUID; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; VORTEX LATTICE;

HARNESS;

EID: 84871900857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2255     Document Type: Article

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