Ultrafast tristable spin memory of a coherent polariton gas

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cerna, R ^a   Leger Y ^b   Paraiso T K ^c   Wouters, M ^d   Morier Genoud, F ^a   Portella Oberli, M T ^a   Deveaud, B ^a  

^a Section de Mathematiques Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; GAS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; PHYSICS;

ACCELERATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COHERENT POLARITON GAS; ELECTRONICS; GAS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPINTRONICS;

EID: 84879634561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3008     Document Type: Article

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