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Attosecond prints of electrons

Attosecond spectroscopy has been used to track the real-time motion of electrons in a krypton ion, and to probe the entanglement between an electron removed from the atom and the ion left behind.

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Figure 1: The first attosecond probe experiments.

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Smirnova, O. Attosecond prints of electrons. Nature 466, 701–702 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466700a

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