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Challenges and opportunities in attosecond and XFEL science

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Seven scientists share their views on some of the latest developments in attosecond science and X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) and highlight exciting new directions.

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  1. Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Eva Lindroth

  2. Attosecond Science Division at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany

    Francesca Calegari

  3. Department of Physics, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

    Francesca Calegari

  4. Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago, Lemont, IL, USA

    Linda Young

  5. Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Paris, France

    Marion Harmand

  6. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Nirit Dudovich

  7. Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

    Nora Berrah

  8. Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany

    Olga Smirnova

  9. Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Olga Smirnova

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Lindroth, E., Calegari, F., Young, L. et al. Challenges and opportunities in attosecond and XFEL science. Nat Rev Phys 1, 107–111 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-019-0023-9

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