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Photoemission delay

The White Rabbit's clock

Without a very precise timer one can never catch up with the electron released in photoemission. Attosecond streaking spectroscopy allows such a chronometer clock to be set to zero and reveals the role of electron correlations.

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Figure 1: Correlation delay in photoemission.

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Calegari, F. The White Rabbit's clock. Nature Phys 13, 207–208 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3973

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