Talk:Polaritonics

The original version of this article has been copied from http://web.mit.edu/nelsongroup/research/polaritonics.shtml. I have asked Prof. Keith A. Nelson, the head of the lab at the MIT, whether he would allow re-publishing the text from his lab's website under the GFDL. I also explained that doing so would mean that the text could be "edited mercilessly" by anyone, and could be redistributed by anyone, even for commercial purposes. He replied on February 18, 2005:

Date:   Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:21:53 -0500 To:     User:Lupo's e-mail address omitted From:   Keith A Nelson  Subject: Re: Wikipedia article on polaritonics

[...] it is OK with me that the material on polaritonics that is now posted on the Wikipedia article be copied and/or edited and redistributed. [...]

Thank you, Prof. Nelson!

Lupo 07:48, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No original research
The creator of the article seems to be the creator of the field, very nearly. --Wtshymanski 00:11, 1 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Hm. Are there any peer-reviewed publications? Lupo 07:41, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

The founders of the field are Thomas Fuerer, Richard Koehl, Keith A. Nelson, Nikolay Stoyanov, Joushua A. Vaughan, and David W. Ward (me). Some of the pioneering theoretical work dates back to Born and Huang (circa 1945) and experimental work by David Austen (circa 1980). There are around 30 peer reviewed publications on polaritonics, though not all with polaritonics in the title. Some of them are listed at http://web.mit.edu/nelsongroup/research/polaritonics.shtml. There are also a couple of US Patents. The version of this article posted on the Nelson group website is from the introduction chapter of my thesis (http://thesis.davidward.org) Since I am the copywrite holder there should be no legal issues with my having passed it to the public domain. On a personal note: you folks have done a nice job sprucing up the polaritonics wikipedia page!

politronics
The latest edition of "Nature" has a piece about "politronics" (with an extra "r"). is that just a spelling mistake?