attoclock

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noun

A device that can measure time intervals of the order of attoseconds

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounattoclock (plural attoclocks)

plural attoclocks

  1. natural sciencesA 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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