| dc.contributor.author | EASTHAM, PAUL | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-18T16:49:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-18T16:49:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2004 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | P. B. Littlewood, P. R. Eastham, J. M. J. Keeling, F. M. Marchetti, B. D. Simons and M. H. Szymanska, Models of coherent exciton condensation, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 16, 35, 2004, S3597-S3620 | en |
| dc.identifier.other | Y | |
| dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
| dc.description.abstract | That excitons in solids might condense into a phase-coherent ground
state was proposed about 40 years ago, and has been attracting experimental and
theoretical attention ever since. Although experimental confirmation has been
hard to come by, the concepts released by this phenomenon have been widely
influential. This tutorial review discusses general aspects of the theory of exciton
and polariton condensates, focussing on the reasons for coherence in the ground
state wavefunction, the BCS to Bose crossover(s) for excitons and for polaritons,
and the relationship of the coherent condensates to standard lasers. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is supported by by the EPSRC and by the EU Network ?Photon mediated
phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures?. PRE acknowledges the financial
support of Sidney Sussex college, Cambridge, and the hospitality of the NHMFL.
FMM acknowledges the financial support of EPSRC (GR/R95951). The NHMFL
is supported by the National Science Foundation, the state of Florida and the US
Department of Energy. | en |
| dc.format.extent | S3597-S3620 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Institute of Physics | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter; | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 16; | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 35; | |
| dc.rights | Y | en |
| dc.subject | Atomic, molecular and chemical physics | en |
| dc.subject | exciton | en |
| dc.title | Models of coherent exciton condensation | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
| dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/easthamp | |
| dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 65549 | |
| dc.identifier.rssuri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/16/35/003 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/49386 | |
