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Bearing witness as an atom loses its quantum ‘fuzziness’

A single electron kicks an iron atom out of multiple quantum states.
Scanning Tunnelling Microscope

A scanning tunnelling microscope similar to this one captured an atom as it lost its quantum state. Credit: Stan Olszewski for IBM/CC BY-ND 2.0

A single iron atom has been observed in unprecedented detail as it sheds the ‘fuzziness’ of its quantum states.

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Nature 555, 9 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02470-8

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