Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10485-9
Bright squeezed vacuum light boosts nonlinear atomic tunnelling ionization more than 20-fold compared with coherent light, enabling quantum control of strong-field processes without increasing classical intensity.
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Nonlinear atomic tunnelling boosted by bright squeezed vacuum
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Wednesday 20 May 2026, 00:00 UTC
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