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For the first time, light makes atoms dance in twisting two-dimensional materials

A flash of light has turned a sheet of atoms into a dance floor. In a feat of precision physics, researchers from Cornell and ...
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A 'seating chart' for atoms helps locate their positions in materials

If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than the atom's width—is comparable to an ocean wave. The light wave can dwarf an ...