Attosecond molecular dynamics: Fact or fiction?

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 195-204

  Lépine, Franck ^a   Ivanov, Misha Y ^b   Vrakking, Marc J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECOND PULSE; CONTROL OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTRONIC COHERENCE; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR SCIENCE; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; STATE OF THE ART;

MOLECULES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84896833406     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.25     Document Type: Review

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