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Scanning probe with a twist observes electron’s wavelike behaviour

03 Mar 2023 Anna Demming
Scanning probe with a twist
How it works: illustration of the quantum twisting microscope in action. Electrons tunnel from the probe (inverted pyramid at the top) to the sample (bottom) in several places at once (green vertical lines), in a quantum coherent manner. (Courtesy: Weizmann Institute of Science)
When the scanning tunnelling microscope made its debut in the 1980s, the result was an explosion in

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