Tag: Physicists nudge atoms within less than a trillionth of a second

“#Physicists nudge atoms within less than a trillionth of a second” The tip of an ultrafast scanning tunneling microscope (top-left) hovers over a molecular switch (bottom, connected red and black spheres). Ultrafast atomic forces (shock waves) induce vigorous motion of a select atom (red sphere) of the molecule to control its reactivity on ultrafast time…