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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
Maintaining coherence is one of the most difficult problems in quantum information science because interactions with the surrounding environment can quickly destroy it.
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
Those statistics are the defining characteristics that distinguish one quantum state from another.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
In the same way, quantum people could not grow very easily; they would hover at four feet for a number of years, and then, in a fraction of a second—pop!—they would be five feet tall.
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
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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