macroscopic

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"The work has allowed us to tie the structures of individual molecules to macroscopic properties of their condensates, really for the first time," Rosen says.

From Science Daily • Dec. 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

This uniquely quantum phenomenon cannot be explained by the laws of classical physics, yet it is one of the properties that explains the macroscopic behavior of quantum systems.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

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

Mutations in genes that specified macroscopic structures, such as limbs and wings, were the easiest to spot and the first to be characterized.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee