Sentences with phrase «by quantum mechanical effects»

«Degenerate matter [1][2] in physics is a collection of free, non-interacting particles with a pressure and other physical characteristics determined by quantum mechanical effects.

The sensitivity of all interferometric gravitational - wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, and GEO600) to the ripples of space - time from large cosmic events is fundamentally limited by quantum mechanical effects.

Not exact matches

It basically works this way: By providing a chemical reaction with two coherent pathways leading to the same possible final products, quantum - mechanical - interference effects can be produced.

Thanks to quantum - mechanical effects, below a certain critical temperature some materials become superconducting: electrons flow through them unhindered by the usual electrical resistance.

Aharonov, now at Chapman with Tollaksen, was renowned for having codiscovered a bizarre quantum mechanical effect in which particles can be affected by electric and magnetic fields, even in regions where those fields should have no reach.

Many scientists had attributed its light - emitting properties to quantum mechanical effects created by the multitude of tiny columns left by the etching.

,» Schrödinger focused on how organisms, such as fruit flies, employ quantum mechanical effects to combat entropy by producing order from disorder.

(The relationship between molecular structure and photon absorption is a quantum mechanical effect with no good commonplace everyday analogy; some have tried to represent this by visuals of springs stretching vs. bending but that's something of a hand - waving explanation.