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Attosecond spectroscopy in condensed matter

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  • A. L. Cavalieri

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

  • N. Müller

    (Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld)

  • Th. Uphues

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
    Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld)

  • V. S. Yakovlev

    (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Am Coulombwall 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

  • A. Baltuška

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
    Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien, Gußhausstr. 27, A-1040 Wien, Austria)

  • B. Horvath

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

  • B. Schmidt

    (Menlo Systems GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany)

  • L. Blümel

    (Menlo Systems GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany)

  • R. Holzwarth

    (Menlo Systems GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany)

  • S. Hendel

    (Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld)

  • M. Drescher

    (Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany)

  • U. Kleineberg

    (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Am Coulombwall 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

  • P. M. Echenique

    (Dpto. Fisica de Materiales UPV/EHU, Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU and Donostia International Physics Center (DPIC), Paseo Manual de Lardizabal 4, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain)

  • R. Kienberger

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

  • F. Krausz

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Am Coulombwall 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

  • U. Heinzmann

    (Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld)

Abstract

See how they run Electrons move in solids at very high speed — traversing atomic layers and interfaces within tens to hundreds of attoseconds (an attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second). These astonishingly brief travel times will ultimately limit the speed of the electronics of the future. Physicists have now experimentally probed such electron dynamics in real time. The cover illustrates the first attosecond spectroscopic measurement in a solid, revealing a 110-attosecond difference in the travel time of two different types of electrons following photoexcitation in a tungsten crystal. The ability to time electrons moving in solids over merely a few interatomic distances makes it possible to probe the solid-state electronic processes occurring at the ultimate speed limit and thus helps to advance technologies such as computation, data storage and photovoltaics, which all rely on exquisite control of electron transport in ever smaller structures of solid matter.

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  • A. L. Cavalieri & N. Müller & Th. Uphues & V. S. Yakovlev & A. Baltuška & B. Horvath & B. Schmidt & L. Blümel & R. Holzwarth & S. Hendel & M. Drescher & U. Kleineberg & P. M. Echenique & R. Kienberger, 2007. "Attosecond spectroscopy in condensed matter," Nature, Nature, vol. 449(7165), pages 1029-1032, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:449:y:2007:i:7165:d:10.1038_nature06229
    DOI: 10.1038/nature06229
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    1. Wenyu Jiang & Gregory S. J. Armstrong & Jihong Tong & Yidan Xu & Zitan Zuo & Junjie Qiang & Peifen Lu & Daniel D. A. Clarke & Jakub Benda & Avner Fleischer & Hongcheng Ni & Kiyoshi Ueda & Hugo W. Hart, 2022. "Atomic partial wave meter by attosecond coincidence metrology," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
    2. Li Wang & Guangru Bai & Xiaowei Wang & Jing Zhao & Cheng Gao & Jiacan Wang & Fan Xiao & Wenkai Tao & Pan Song & Qianyu Qiu & Jinlei Liu & Zengxiu Zhao, 2024. "Raman time-delay in attosecond transient absorption of strong-field created krypton vacancy," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-8, December.

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