Technique to see the ultrafast world of electrons wins 2023 physics Nobel
Attosecond bursts of laser light let researchers glimpse electron dynamics in matter
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The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics goes to researchers who used lasers to generate extremely short bursts of light.
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