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

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

Hence physicists and chemists can formulate universal deterministic laws at the macroscopic level, but biologists and historians can formulate only statistical trends.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond