Free-electron lasers generate intense, femtosecond and sub-nanometre wavelength pulses. Incorporating such X-ray light into transient grating spectroscopy reveals electron dynamics at the nanometre length scale.
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Beye, M. Transient grating spectroscopy down to the atomic length scale. Nat. Phys. 22, 348–349 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03203-9
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