Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 - Attosecond Physics Explained | #science #physics #nobelprize2023

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their work on generating extremely short pulses of light. The winners are Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier.

These scientists developed methods to produce flashes of light that last only a fraction of a trillionth of a second. That’s shorter than the time it takes for an electron to move between two energy levels inside an atom!

Using these ultrafast flashes of light, the scientists were able to observe the rapid motion of electrons inside atoms and molecules.

This research provides new insights into the microscopic world and could lead to novel electronics and laser technologies.

The work of the laureates has opened up the field of attosecond physics. An attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second – an unimaginably short interval of time.

By using attosecond laser pulses, we can effectively stop time and capture the movement of electrons that is otherwise too quick to see.

[handsfree]

Thanks for the explanation. Awards are being given for achievements most people don’t understand

[ArgzeroYT]

Imagine how large 1 minute of recordings will be for 1D data xD

[dougg]

How do they know it’s an atto second? How do you measure something we’ve never been able to measure.

[MrWuwho]

Can it capture how quick tempered my wife is?

[banothbhaskarnaik]

Nobel prize 🏆 Physics 2023 peeri agstoni anna Hillier, french klauss

[piyushchandraa]

So we can actually determine the position of an electron then we can not tell anything about its momentum?

[quantisedspace]

If they can capture the positions of electrons exactly, does that mean that their momentum becomes completely unknowable.

[BenjaminKroll]

Does a pulse of light like that still do the weird double slit thingie? 😮

[All_Terrain_Journey]

One of them lives 30 minutes by bike from me

[ilghiz]

It's Feren[ts], not Feren[k]. I think you should pay respect to people's names.

[aaronlewis]

So they won a Nobel prize for making the world's fastest non visible strobe light??

[MrofficialC]

Do you think it's possible for light to interfere with itself and change its direction of motion?

[MrofficialC]

Do you think a light wave occurs because light is a kind of point particle that oscillates within the electromagnetic fields? Which creates the appearance of waves?

[Homelander-ftw]

you could have looked up how to pronounce their names at least

[johnmathew]

Does that mean, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is no more

[com-evwq]

Will hisenberg uncertainty principle be proved wrong ?

[viperking]

where the videos of how electrons move 🤬

[whitefeather]

Bro that means uncertainty principle can broken now😮

[TeddyshaCelestine-vg]

Develop it
But wats the use if it can't help humanity

[Smartsometimes]

This is called a tracking beam. Allowing the potential to stop mass objects. I.e. starships and human bodies. Gotta love the future. My kid will be part of the rebel faction.