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Attoclocks play devil's advocate

An 'attoclock' that measures the relative release time of electrons during double ionization may force us to rethink our use of semi-classical models.

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Ueda, K., Ishikawa, K. Attoclocks play devil's advocate. Nature Phys 7, 371–372 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1985

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