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Echoes from diffusion

Coherent scattering of helium wave packets captures molecular motion with nanometre and picosecond resolution.

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Figure 1: Insight into molecular dynamics with the helium-3 spin-echo technique.

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Klappenberger, F. Echoes from diffusion. Nature Mater 15, 374–376 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4602

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