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ATOMIC SHORTS
What we can learn from moving atoms
I come to work and I try in, in some shape or form to
manipulate these atoms into doing something.
And sometimes that involves moving them to specific places.
Sometimes that involves picking an atom up and moving to somewhere else and then dropping it off.
Sometimes all I do is actually genuinely try to characterize
what happens when these different kinds of atoms are on the surface.
And the reason why that's important is because you get to understand
how the atom and how the electrons in, in this atom interact with
the electrons from the tip and the electrons from the substrate
that the, that the atom sits on.
And that gives you insight into what the actual physics is and,
and then possibly how you can use that physics to build more complicated structures,
to build structures that will do something interesting like the atomic memory stuff that Andreas was working on.