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quantum

[kwon-tuhm] / ˈkwɒn təm /
NOUN
quantity
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The miniature universe continued to obey the established equations of quantum physics while providing a different way to describe its evolution.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Barontini's experiment takes that connection further by demonstrating how changes in entropy can provide an operational measure of time inside a controlled quantum system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Instead, it demonstrates something that was previously difficult to test: A quantum system can possess a meaningful internal measure of time without depending on an external clock.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Now, researchers are finding that it can also reveal the complex behavior of multiple interacting quantum particles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

This singularity makes no sense in quantum mechanics or in general relativity.

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

In a semiconductor field-effect transistor, there is a two-dimensional electron channel where a collective charge-density quanta, i.e., two-dimensional plasmons, exist.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2023

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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