Observation of grand-canonical number statistics in a photon bose-einstein condensate

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Schmitt, Julian ^a   Damm, Tobias ^a   Dung, David ^a   Vewinger, Frank ^a   Klaers, Jan ^a   Weitz, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CONDENSED PHASE; MEASUREMENTS OF; MOLECULAR EXCITATIONS; NUMBER FLUCTUATIONS; PARTICLE NUMBERS; PARTICLE RESERVOIRS; SECOND ORDER COHERENCE;

PHOTONS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION;

EID: 84892947345     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.030401     Document Type: Article

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