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Attosecond physics is a specialized field of physics focused on phenomena occurring within the attosecond time scale, specifically between 10-18 and 10-15 seconds. This discipline involves generating laser pulses shorter than 10-15 seconds to study the dynamics of electron motion in atoms and molecules. The atomic unit of time is approximately 24 attoseconds, making this field crucial for understanding ultrafast processes at the quantum level.

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Hello,
please can anyone explain to me "Attosecond physics"
I would like to understand it.

Thanks
 
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mamdouh said:
can anyone explain to me "Attosecond physics"
You will get better answers if tell us where you heard that term, and what you did and did not understand from that source.
 
Attosecond physics is the field of physics that is concerned with phenomena that take place in the attosecond time-scale, namely 10-18-10-15 s.

In practice, this means making laser impulses that are shorter than 10-15 s and using them to interrogate the motion of electrons inside atoms and molecules, for which the time-scale of that order of magnitude (the atomic unit of time is 24 as).
 

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