According to the video you can see below, the right way to think about it is as a standing wave. What does that mean? The video shows a very interesting demonstrator that shows how that works.

It sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie, but in the bizarre world of quantum physics, something just as bizarre happens ...

Standing electron waves are created when a small charge ... “The existence of this wave means that the electrons on the surfaces of copper, iron, beryllium and other metals behave like water ...

Standing waves are involved in various fundamental, natural phenomena over a wide range of scales, that is, from electron orbitals ... Furthermore, the standing wave causes unexpected phenomena ...

This standing wave, radiating around the nanowire ... and focused a UTEM (ultrafast transmission electron microscopy) instrument on these to image where each of the changes in energy state ...

Louis De Broglie proposed this idea, and electron wave-particle duality was ... it's the light from a laser beam that creates a standing wave pattern. The high intensity of the peaks in the ...

The light waves travel along the nanowire in two directions, but when they meet they form a 'standing' wave that remains stationary -- creating the source of light for the experiment. Then comes ...