quantum
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Physicists have captured an extraordinary quantum phenomenon in which electrons appear to leap across energy gaps that would normally be off limits.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
"Likewise, we must observe as many electrons as possible at one time to catch those that undergo a quantum mechanical transition while moving."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
The carefully engineered material made it possible to distinguish the delicate quantum effects from interference caused by imperfections in the graphene.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
The electric field accelerated the electrons and caused some of them to switch from one energy band to another, crossing the intervening gap through a quantum mechanical transition.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
The trouble with this was that the laws of mechanics and electricity, before quantum mechanics, predicted that the electrons would lose energy and so spiral inward until they collided with the nucleus.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
The challenge with Josephson junctions is that their behavior unfolds at the level of individual quanta.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023
General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.
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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