Attractive photons in a quantum nonlinear medium

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7469, 2013, Pages 71-75

  Firstenberg, Ofer ^a   Peyronel, Thibault ^b   Liang, Qi Yu ^b   Gorshkov, Alexey V ^c,d   Lukin, Mikhail D ^a   Vuletić, Vladan ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ATTENUATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DENSITY; DYNAMICS; EVOLUTION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL DEPTH; OPTICS; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVEL;

EID: 84885623094     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12512     Document Type: Article

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