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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Coulomb Enhancement of Superfluorescence Bursts from the Fermi Edge in Highly-Excited Quantum Wells

Jihee Kim, Tim Noe, Stephen McGill, Yongrui Wang, Aleksander K. W 'ojcik, Alexey A. Belyanin, Junichiro Kono

Published Mar 19, 2013• 0 citations
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