Observing geometric frustration with thousands of coupled lasers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Nixon, Micha ^a   Ronen, Eitan ^a   Friesem, Asher A ^a   Davidson, Nir ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED LASERS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; GEOMETRIC FRUSTRATION; KAGOME LATTICE; ORDERED SYSTEMS; PHASE LOCKED STATE; PHASE ORDERING; SPIN HAMILTONIAN;

GEOMETRY; GROUND STATE;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 84877289478     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.184102     Document Type: Article

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