IBM produced this neat clip to promote interest in science, math, etc among students and the general public. They admit it's not a scientific breakthrough. They've been doing this manipulation for a while now.
The thing that fascinated me was the patterns around the atoms and collections of atoms. Are those interference patterns of the E-fields? They also have a wavy appearance. Look at the patterns around the rectangular platform that the "boy" ends up standing on. Looks like equipotentials to me.