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Revealing the atomic dance

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Photon correlation spectroscopy with coherent X-rays reveals the elementary diffusive motion of atoms.

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Figure 1: Schematic images of atomic ordering onto two sublattices in an alloy, showing the differences between non-equilibrium and equilibrium dynamics.
Figure 2: The XPCS technique for observing equilibrium dynamics.

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  1. G. Brian Stephenson is at the Materials Science Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA stephenson@anl.gov,

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  2. Aymeric Robert is at the LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA,

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  3. Gerhard Grübel is at HASYLAB/DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.,

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