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
As a result, quantum materials can perform remarkable tasks in carefully controlled laboratories, but they are difficult and expensive to use in real-world devices.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Physicists refer to this shared quantum behavior as quantum coherence.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Those vibrations disrupt the fragile quantum effects researchers want to control.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
However, a quantum car would behave in exactly this way.
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
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
Quantum theory typically deals with the universe in tiny chunks, or quanta, while general relativity takes the cosmos to be continuous even at the smallest scales.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 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
Sometimes the light quanta seemed to measure out at three or four meters long; sometimes they appeared to be “just a little bundle of energy,” Beams recalled.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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