Ultrashort laser pulses allow physicists and chemists to watch fast molecular motion as it happens. But many fundamental atomic processes are even faster and require the shortest pulses ever created.
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Silberberg, Y. Physics at the attosecond frontier. Nature 414, 494–495 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35107171
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