Probing collective multi-electron dynamics in xenon with high-harmonic spectroscopy

High-harmonic spectroscopy probes atomic structure by looking at the short-wavelength emission excited from atoms by ultrafast pulses of laser light. It is now shown that this technique can even detect signatures of electron–electron interactions.

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