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attoclocks

attoclocks is the plural of attoclock.

Meaning of attoclock

Noun

attoclock (plural attoclocks)

  1. A device that can measure time intervals of the order of attoseconds
    • Tunneling time, formulated in various different forms due to the absence of a time operator in quantum theory, has been measured recently in experiments based on the attoclock in ultrafast laser ionization of Helium atoms [A.~Landsman {\it et al.}, Optica {\bf 1}, 343 (2014)].2015, Durmus A. Demir, Tugrul Guner, “An Entropic Formulation of Tunneling Time”, in arXiv

Questions about attoclocks

What is attoclocks the plural of?
Attoclocks is the plural of attoclock.

Words near attoclocks in the dictionary

  1. attobarns
  2. attocell
  3. attocells
  4. Attock
  5. attoclock
  6. attoclocks
  7. attogram
  8. attogramme
  9. attogrammes
  10. attograms
  11. attohertz

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