macroscopic

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This switching changes the material's macroscopic electrical properties and reverses which direction has easier electrical flow, a property known as the diode effect, where current flows more easily in one direction than the other.

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025

In the words of the committee, "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

That means the puddle has more entropy than the crystals, and the system evolves to the macroscopic state with the greatest entropy.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

The researchers confirmed the robots worked as programmed by varying the temperature and comparing the readouts with the values from a macroscopic thermometer placed in the solution.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 7, 2024

One can therefore ask: does quantum theory allow time travel on a macroscopic scale, which people could use?

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking