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Nature Physics 3, 106–110 (1 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/nphys494

Superradiance of quantum dots

Michael Scheibner , Thomas Schmidt , Lukas Worschech , Alfred Forchel , Gerd Bacher , Thorsten Passow & Detlef Hommel

In 1954, Dicke pointed out that the description of a spontaneously radiating gas has to include the fact that all atoms or molecules interact with a common radiation field. Consequently, the individual particles may not be considered as independent sources of radiation.