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Noise measurements are a probe beyond simple electronic transport that can reveal additional information about electronic correlations and inelastic processes. Here we report noise measurements in individual electromigrated nanojunctions,…
We present analytical and numerical results for the microwave excitation of nonhydrogenic atoms in a static electric field when up to 1000 photons are required to ionize an atom. For small microwave fields, dynamical localization in photon…
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Revelation of the effects of isotope fractionation during fragmentation in electron ionization mass spectrometry (EI-MS) on compound-specific isotope analysis of chlorine and bromine (CSIA-Cl/Br) may be of crucial significance, yet a…
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