Visualizing picometric quantum ripples of ultrafast wave-packet interference

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5767, 2006, Pages 1589-1592

  Katsuki, Hiroyuki ^a,b,c   Chiba, Hisashi ^a,b   Girard, Bertrand ^d   Maier, Christoph ^d   Ohmori, Kenji ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IODINE; MOLECULES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

INTERFERENCE FRINGES; PICOMETER; WAVE-PACKET;

QUANTUM THEORY;

IODINE;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 33644928212     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121240     Document Type: Article

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