"The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I drew to one singularly ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here."
Meh, probably at the molecular level but not really at the atomic level.
Looks like there are using vibrations in a solid to elicit a reaction from an atom that is, perhaps, larger than some molecules (probably necessary as they are reaching the limits at which sound can propagate through a substance...there is actually a limit to how small these things can get because there is nothing through which to propagate the acoustics).
I see this as fairly useless. It is interesting because "we did it" but I do not see this taking off or being used as a data retrieval process (as the author seems to imply).