{"id":241776,"date":"2026-07-29T13:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/two-attosecond-flashes-capture-electrons-in-motion"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:07:59","slug":"two-attosecond-flashes-capture-electrons-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/two-attosecond-flashes-capture-electrons-in-motion","title":{"rendered":"Two attosecond flashes capture electrons in motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-attosecond-flashes-capture-electrons-in-motion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electronic motion sets the stage for virtually every light-induced process in nature, from the first step of a chemical reaction to the flow of charge in a solid. Yet these processes unfold so rapidly that they can be observed only with flashes of light lasting a few hundred attoseconds\u2014billionths of a billionth of a second.<\/p>\n<p>Most previous attosecond experiments combined an attosecond pulse in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) with a longer, often intense near-infrared pulse. Such fields can disturb the system under investigation and obscure its intrinsic electronic response. In the new approach, both the pump and probe are attosecond extreme-ultraviolet pulses, providing a potentially much cleaner view of the underlying dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-76019-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic motion sets the stage for virtually every light-induced process in nature, from the first step of a chemical reaction to the flow of charge in a solid. Yet these processes unfold so rapidly that they can be observed only with flashes of light lasting a few hundred attoseconds\u2014billionths of a billionth of a second. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}