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quantum

[kwon-tuhm] / ˈkwɒn təm /
NOUN
quantity
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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

Those statistics are the defining characteristics that distinguish one quantum state from another.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 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

LSU physicists have now created the first room-temperature quantum material able to identify and transport distinct quantum states of light.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

The new theory of quantum mechanics resolved this difficulty.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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 aim of the physicists in Düsseldorf was to measure the frequency of the required radiation quanta as precisely as possible and they achieved an unprecedented level of accuracy in their experiments.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2024

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

Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk, showed the physics world that nature worked in quanta rather than in smooth increments.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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