Watching the Dance of the Atoms in Slow-Motion

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DATE : Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100
Entered in Database : 2009-05-05 23:00:00
length : 107995008
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The changes in the atomic configuration underlying chemical reactions, phase transitions and many other fundamental processes in nature take place on a femtosecond (fs) time scale, that is, roughly speaking 10-14 to 10-13 s (1 fs = 10-15s). Ultrafast lasers and optical spectroscopy provide the capability of temporally resolving these processes but they lack the spatial resolution that is be required to directly track the motion of the atoms

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