Transition to a Bose-Einstein condensate and relaxation explosion of excitons at sub-Kelvin temperatures

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yoshioka, Kosuke ^a,b   Chae, Eunmi ^a,b,c   Kuwata Gonokami, Makoto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85027835476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1335     Document Type: Article

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