macroscopic
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Quantum metals are metals where quantum effects -- behaviors that normally only matter at atomic scales -- become powerful enough to control the metal's macroscopic electrical properties.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025
In the words of the committee, "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
Entropy is essentially the number of such microstates consistent with the same macroscopic variables, he deduced.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024
That means the puddle has more entropy than the crystals, and the system evolves to the macroscopic state with the greatest entropy.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024
One can therefore ask: does quantum theory allow time travel on a macroscopic scale, which people could use?
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
