Fractional quantum mechanics in polariton condensates with velocity-dependent mass
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F. Pinsker,1,* W. Bao,2 Y. Zhang,3,4 H. Ohadi,5 A. Dreismann,5 and J. J. Baumberg5 1Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom 2Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, 119076 Singapore 3Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100094, People’s Republic of China 4Université de Rennes 1, IRMAR, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes CEDEX, France 5Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom (Received 14 August 2015; revised manuscript received 9 October 2015; published 25 November 2015)
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