Sentences with phrase «quantum mechanical behavior»

To me, the middle ground «frontier» is how you maintain quantum mechanical behavior of an object as you bring it to a macroscopic scale.

He is a pioneer in the field of semiconductor spintronics, exploring the quantum mechanical behavior of charges and spins in nanostructures and the foundations of solid - state quantum information processing.

The new experimental technique may also help other researchers plumb the properties of materials lacking hydrogen bonds, such as superconductors and semiconductors, where they hope to manipulate the quantum mechanical behavior of advanced materials.

Not exact matches

Taylor says it will be interesting to see how the quantum - mechanical behavior of tiny heat engines differs from the «classical» physics that governs familiar engines.

In particular, he is interested in studying complex systems arising from emerging applications, such as brain networks, social behaviors, health and quantum mechanical systems.

Two examples: graphene — single - atom - thick sheets of carbon atoms — has unique mechanical, electrical, and optical properties; and two - dimensional electron gases (2DEG)-- planar collections of electrons supported at the interface between certain semiconductors such as gallium arsenide — allow the observation of such emergent behaviors as the quantum Hall effect and the spin Hall effect.

Harvard's Kim says that this work «is an important step toward building novel electronic applications, based on the unique relativistic quantum - mechanical behavior of electrons in graphene.»

When I was a physicist, back in the days when supercomputers had as much power as a cellphone, those of us who studied orientational forces between molecules of hydrogen or nitrogen used spherical harmonics to represent the behaviors (shperoidal wave functions, actually, since it is a quantum - mechanical problem).