polarization
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It’s not a silver bullet that cures polarization, settles complicated policy debates or ensures that everyone gets along.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Scientists can rotate that electron beam by adjusting the polarization of the two phase-coherent optical fields.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Spin refers to the rotation like properties of light, while the Stokes parameters describe polarization, or the direction in which light waves vibrate as they travel.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
But we share a conviction that in an age of loneliness, polarization and technological disruption, America needs more spaces where people can show up as whole human beings and practice citizenship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Well-known examples include ferromagnets, which switch between opposite magnetic orientations, and ferroelectrics, which can hold opposing electric polarizations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2025
Two photons can be entangled so that each is in an uncertain both-ways state, but their polarizations are correlated so that if one is horizontal the other must be vertical and vice versa.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022
“It may create a divide between the transitional government and the public. We are looking for a decent discussion based on the interests of Sudan without any polarizations or accusations.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020
Such pairs of photons can be prepared together—entangled—so that their polarizations are always found to be in the opposite direction when observed.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2020
Heat, light, electricity, magnetism, are by some regarded as specific fluids; by others, as undulations of one or more specific fluid; and by a third class, as undulations or polarizations of ordinary matter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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