quantum
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This equation describes how the quantum state of a system evolves, including changes in the probability of finding particles in particular locations or states.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Scientists have pushed X-ray generation beyond a long-accepted limit in laser physics, revealing a surprising quantum effect that conventional theory does not account for.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Observing processes at such speeds is essential for understanding how electrons move and influence one another in quantum systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Although the electrons were freed at different moments, their behavior remained connected through quantum correlations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
This idea–the famous "quantum leap"–is of course utterly strange, but it was too good not to be true.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Previous laboratory experiments have mostly measured these quanta of H2+ indirectly and none of them have used lasers.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024
The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023
General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time, such as a week.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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