For the first time ever, scientists watch an atom's electrons moving in real time
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 04:14
in Physics & Chemistry
An international team of scientists led by groups from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, and from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley has used ultrashort flashes of laser light to directly observe the movement of an atom's outer electrons for the first time...