Re: [Phys-L] IBM movie

["W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>]

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:58:25PM -0500, Bill Nettles wrote:
> 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.

See [1] for the classic iron corral image.


[1]:
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_project_subpage.php?id=4252
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v363/n6429/abs/363524a0.html

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