diffusive
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"In this state, quantum coherence and many-body entanglement prevent the system from thermalizing and from showing diffusive behavior, even under sustained external driving," explains Hanns Christoph Nägerl.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
While silicon systems rely on electrons to perform computations, Yang's diffusive memristors use the motion of atoms instead, creating a process that more closely resembles how biological neurons transmit information.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2025
It was more of a diffusive process where the leadership faltered.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021
Aciman, a famous Proustian, is clearly interested in the diffusive action of time and the heartaches of temps perdu.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2019
"Combining together these various indications, or sources of discrimination,—outward objects, diffusive mode or expression, inward consciousness, resulting conduct and institutions,—I adopt the following arrangement of the families or natural orders of emotion."
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
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