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quantum

[kwon-tuhm] / ˈkwɒn təm /
NOUN
quantity
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They may also help guide future research into strongly correlated atomic systems and quantum materials, where particles interact in unusually complex ways.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

"This quantum enhancement of the effective atom size makes collisions on a given lattice site much more likely, increasing the resistivity of the system."

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

“Think of this as a new physics that is being demonstrated on a quantum computer where classical methods fail,” Gambetta said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Thursday’s news also helps put IBM further along the path to a fault-tolerant quantum computer, a milestone it has promised to achieve by 2029.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Nothing in between is allowed, so to get from 30 to 40 miles an hour, you have to make a quantum leap.

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

In a semiconductor field-effect transistor, there is a two-dimensional electron channel where a collective charge-density quanta, i.e., two-dimensional plasmons, exist.

From Science Daily Dec. 28, 2023

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

Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk, showed the physics world that nature worked in quanta rather than in smooth increments.

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




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