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Experiment measures the times that it takes an electron to quantum tunnel in and out of a helium atom and a carbon dioxide molecule — ingenious technique and excellent lay science writing 0

Citation — to the study Dror Shafir, Hadas Soifer, Barry D. Bruner, Michal Dagan, Yann Mairesse, Serguei Patchkovskii, Misha Yu. Ivanov, Olga Smirnova, and Nirit Dudovich, Resolving the time when an electron exits a tunnelling barrier, Nature 485(7398): 343–346(17 May 2012) doi:10.1038/nature11025 Citation — to Bob Yirka’s excellent lay explanation of how the study was [...]