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Figure 3: Each time a wave peak hits the atom, the probability that an electron will be progressively released within a few 100 attoseconds increases. This phenomenon, which was predicted in theory, evaded direct observation for more than four decades -- an international team of scientists has now demonstrated it for the first time.
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Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
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