Physicists have just caught light acting the part of 'glue' between atoms, in a kind of loosely bonded molecule.
"We have succeeded for the first time in polarizing several atoms together in a controlled way, creating a measurable attractive force between them," says University of Innsbruck physicist Matthias Sonnleitner.
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