Stabilization of photon collapse and revival dynamics by a non-Markovian phonon bath

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Carmele, Alexander ^a,b   Knorr, Andreas ^a   Milde, Frank ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSE AND REVIVAL; DISSIPATIVE PROCESS; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; PARAMETER REGIMES; QUANTUM EFFECTS; STABILIZING EFFECTS; STABLE PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODELING;

PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84887465422     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/10/105024     Document Type: Article

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