Beyond quantum jumps: Blinking nanoscale light emitters
- 1 February 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 62 (2) , 34-39
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3086100
Abstract
On the nanoscale, almost all light sources blink. Surprisingly, such blinking occurs on time scales much larger than predicted by quantum mechanics and has statistics governed by nonergodicity.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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