polarization
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The event as well as a luncheon the prior day in Santa Monica were rare displays of bipartisan unity at a time of heightened political polarization in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
By sending three individual photons into the device with carefully selected polarization states, the researchers showed that the system could distinguish among different types of three-photon W states.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
When a weak magnetic field is applied, the polarization of those nuclear spins begins to rotate.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
The researchers say structures inspired by monotiles could eventually contribute to technologies designed to manipulate light, control polarization, and support advanced optical devices.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Due to their different polarizations, each standing wave attracted and corralled one of two groups of atoms, depending on their spin.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024
If phi mesons can add to the strong force field, their cousins should, too—and J/psi mesons’ spin polarizations should be similarly impacted by the resulting fluctuations.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 2, 2023
Two photons can be entangled so that each is in an uncertain both-ways state, but their polarizations are correlated so that if one is horizontal the other must be vertical and vice versa.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022
“It may create a divide between the transitional government and the public. We are looking for a decent discussion based on the interests of Sudan without any polarizations or accusations.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020
Heat, light, electricity, magnetism, are by some regarded as specific fluids; by others, as undulations of one or more specific fluid; and by a third class, as undulations or polarizations of ordinary matter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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