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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Watching the Real-time Evolution of a Laser Modified Atom Using Attosecond Pulses

Niranjan Shivaram, Henry R. Timmers, Xiao‐Min Tong, Arvinder S. Sandhu

Published Oct 21, 2011• 0 citations
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