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arXiv:cond-mat/0002121

Comment on: "Auger decay, Spin-exchange, and their connection to Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in Cu_2O " by G.M. Kavoulakis, A. Mysyrowicz (cond-mat/0001438)

Anatoly B. Kuklov

Published Feb 8, 2000• 0 citations
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Abstract

It is shown that the interconversion mechanism for the triplet excitons in Cu_2O suggested recently by G.M. Kavoulakis and A. Mysyrowicz in cond-mat/0001438 can be tested by the two-photon direct creation of the triplet excitons.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0002121

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