Ultrafast Science, Volume. 2, Issue 1, 9802917(2022)

Probing Molecular Frame Wigner Time Delay and Electron Wavepacket Phase Structure of CO Molecule

Zhenning Guo1... Peipei Ge1, Yiqi Fang1, Yankun Dou1, Xiaoyang Yu1, Jiguo Wang1, Qihuang Gong1,2,3, and Yunquan Liu1,23,* |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
  • 3Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Mar. 1, 2022

    Accepted: May. 6, 2022

    Published Online: Sep. 28, 2023

    The Author Email: Liu Yunquan (yunquan.liu@pku.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.34133/2022/9802917

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