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Roundup At the Optical Corral
Although this image looks like electron waves in an "atom corral," it's actually a theoretical optical corral--a prediction--with the waves representing quantum states of light. To learn more, see the American Physical Society's Physical Review Focus Roundup At the Optical Corral.
Physics in Action: Seeing Atoms
Visit Physics in Action: Seeing Atoms to find out why we can't see atoms with light, and how the scanning tunneling microscope works. Also, don't miss the images in IBM's STM Gallery.