Attosecond probing and control of charge migration in carbon-chain molecule

Lixin He; Yanqing He; Siqi Sun; Esteban Goetz; Anh-Thu Le; Xiaosong Zhu; Pengfei Lan; Peixiang Lu; Chii-Dong Lin

doi:10.1117/1.AP.5.5.056001

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