article_snippet: The technique for capturing the image could be used to help open up new areas of superfast computers that exploit the quantum states of materials.
article_snippet: He said: 'This experiment demonstrates that, for the first time ever, we can film quantum mechanics - and its paradoxical nature - directly. '
article_snippet: Being able to image and control quantum phenomena at the nanometer scale like this opens up a new route towards quantum computing.'
article_snippet: By firing a pulse of laser light  at a tiny metal wire suspended on graphene, this added energy to the particle wire and caused the particle wire to vibrate.
article_snippet: Light then traveled along the wire in two possible directions.
article_snippet: By then firing a stream of electrons close to the nanowire, they were able to image a new 'standing wave' of light in an ultrafast microscope due to the way the electrons sped up or slowed down.
highlights_snippet: Swiss researchers have used lasers and nanowires to capture the images .
  
highlights_snippet: The experiment could lead to new types of super fast 'quantum computers' 