<story><title>The geometry of an electron determined for the first time</title><url>https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/The-geometry-of-an-electron-determined-for-the-first-time.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aj7</author><text>From reading the article, I think they mean “determined” in the sense of controlled.  They changed the potential distribution in the electrodes, and the single-electron wavefunction changed in a controlled way.  The “geometry” is presumably the spatial probability distribution, including the spin.</text></comment>
<story><title>The geometry of an electron determined for the first time</title><url>https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/The-geometry-of-an-electron-determined-for-the-first-time.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>I thought the geometry of electron orbitals was that of spherical harmonics? Platonically beautiful, emperically validated, etc etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Spherical_harmonics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Spherical_harmonics&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>