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Physica B Condensed Matter

Evidence of density-dependent dephasing in interferometric four-wave-mixing experiments on heavy-hole excitons in ZnSe quantum wells

Hans Georg Breunig, Tammo Trüper, Ilja Rückmann, J. Gutowski, F. Jahnke

Published Mar 1, 2002• 5 citations
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10.1016/s0921-4526(01)01412-0

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