microsecond

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For example, Google’s qubits, which consist of tiny circuits of superconducting metal that have two states with distinct energies, can maintain a two-way state for about 15 microseconds before noise obscures it.

From Science Magazine

The pull would be impulsive, lasting 10 microseconds for the typical PBH speed of 100 miles per second in the dark matter halo of the Milky Way galaxy.

From Scientific American

Muons are also extremely shortly-lived: after they are created in high-energy collisions, such as when cosmic rays strike Earth's atmosphere, they decay in an average of 1.56 microseconds later.

From Salon

The muon has a lifetime of about two microseconds.

From Scientific American

But the muon is not part of the atom, it is unstable and normally exists for only two microseconds.

From Seattle Times