Coherent X-ray-optical control of nuclear excitons.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
02 2021
Historique:
received: 22 10 2018
accepted: 02 12 2020
entrez: 18 2 2021
pubmed: 19 2 2021
medline: 19 2 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Coherent control of quantum dynamics is key to a multitude of fundamental studies and applications

Identifiants

pubmed: 33597757
doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03276-x
pii: 10.1038/s41586-021-03276-x
pmc: PMC7889490
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

401-404

Subventions

Organisme : European Research Council
Pays : International

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

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Auteurs

Kilian P Heeg (KP)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.

Andreas Kaldun (A)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.

Cornelius Strohm (C)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

Christian Ott (C)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.

Rajagopalan Subramanian (R)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.

Dominik Lentrodt (D)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.

Johann Haber (J)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

Hans-Christian Wille (HC)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

Stephan Goerttler (S)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.

Rudolf Rüffer (R)

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France.

Christoph H Keitel (CH)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.

Ralf Röhlsberger (R)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany.
Helmholtz-Institut Jena, Jena, Germany.
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany.
Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.

Thomas Pfeifer (T)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.

Jörg Evers (J)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany. joerg.evers@mpi-hd.mpg.de.

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