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
The researchers found that structured light possesses its own topological characteristics, encoded in the arrangement of its polarization.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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
Researchers also found that the direction of that polarization remained aligned with 1E 1547's magnetic field, just as its radio waves did.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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However, a new uOttawa study disproves this theory and shows that amorphous solids actually exhibit dichroism, meaning that they selectively absorb light of different polarizations.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
“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
These “qubits” might be made of photons that are in a combination of two different polarizations.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2019
When the pulses first leave the interferometer, they have different polarizations.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 27, 2017
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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