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Polariton transport

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Time-dependent pump–probe studies of polaritonic transport — for polaritons formed by strong coupling between organic molecules and Bloch surface waves at the interface of a distributed Bragg reflector — reveal a transition between diffusive and ballistic behaviour.

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Fig. 1: Bloch surface wave polariton transport.

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Keeling, J., Turnbull, G. See how they run. Nat. Mater. 22, 276–277 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01484-6

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