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A quantum stroboscope.
Electrons move fast, making it difficult to capture images of them. It only takes about 150 attoseconds for an electron to circle the nucleus of an atom. Ultrafast lasers can provide few-cycle pulses in the attosecond range, but a single pulse’s energy is not high enough to capture a good image.
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