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quantum

[kwon-tuhm] / ˈkwɒn təm /
NOUN
quantity
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Instead, it provided a simplified quantum model in which researchers could investigate how a sequence of events might be reconstructed without referring to a clock outside the system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

At these extraordinarily low temperatures, quantum effects become especially important, allowing researchers to study behaviors that are normally difficult to observe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

The miniature universe continued to obey the established equations of quantum physics while providing a different way to describe its evolution.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Future experiments could extend this approach to more complicated quantum systems, allowing researchers to explore models of the Big Bang and the Big Crunch in greater detail.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

An unlikely candidate would turn the quantum hypothesis from a peculiarity to an accepted fact.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

It is especially notable to this process that the emergent composite fermion particle is unique in that the electron captures six quantized magnetic flux quanta, forming the most intricate composite fermion known to date.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023

Quantum mechanics describes how, in the subatomic realm, everything is broken up in discrete chunks, or quanta, such as the individual particles of light called photons.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2023

“He responded, rather vaguely, with some small notions about highspeed rotating mirrors, chopping the tails off quanta and other single-shot ideas,” Tuve would recall.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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