quantum
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Sub-themes would also be expanded from 16 to 24, including quantum computing and aerospace and satellite technology as new categories.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
"These quantum states carry information. Our crystal can distinguish them and move them from one point to another in a robust way without requiring cryogenic cooling. That's what opens the door to practical quantum technologies."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Those statistics are the defining characteristics that distinguish one quantum state from another.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
These routes also allow certain quantum states to move through the material while undergoing fewer changes to their statistics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
If so, then quantum sails are just the beginning; it would be possible to make engines that run solely on zero-point energy.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Photons are "light quanta" that constitute the basic building blocks making up the electromagnetic radiation field.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023
Quantum mechanics describes how, in the subatomic realm, everything is broken up in discrete chunks, or quanta, such as the individual particles of light called photons.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time, such as a week.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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