Photonic crystal architecture for room-temperature equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Jiang, Jian Hua ^a   John, Sajeev ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; DISPERSIONS; MICROCAVITIES; PHONONS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; DISPERSION (WAVES); PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CRYSTAL ARCHITECTURE; EXCITON-PHOTON COUPLING; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LOWER POLARITON BRANCHES; PHOTONIC BAND GAP (PBG); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MICROCAVITIES; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; VACUUM RABI SPLITTING;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84907653000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031025     Document Type: Article

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