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attoclock en · NOUN

Etymology

From atto- + clock.

Meanings

  1. A device that can measure time intervals of the order of attoseconds
    • Tunneling time, formulated in various different forms due to the absence of a time operator in quantum theory, has been measured recently in experiments based on the attoclock in ultrafast laser ionization of Helium atoms [A.~Landsman {\it et al.}, Optica {\bf 1}, 343 (2014)]. 2015, Durmus A. Demir, Tugrul Guner, “An Entropic Formulation of Tunneling Time”, in arXiv:

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