Fractional Bloch oscillations in photonic lattices

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Corrielli, Giacomo ^a,b   Crespi, Andrea ^a,b   Della Valle, Giuseppe ^a,b   Longhi, Stefano ^a,b   Osellame, Roberto ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OSCILLATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; BLOCH OSCILLATION; BOSE HUBBARD HAMILTONIAN; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL REACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLATION; PHOTONIC LATTICE; SIMULATOR; THEORY;

EID: 84875885897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2578     Document Type: Article

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