Sentences with phrase «quantum mechanical effects»

While quantum mechanics primarily applies to the smaller atomic regimes of matter and energy, some systems exhibit quantum mechanical effects on a large scale.

Nuclear theorists believe that the combined quantum mechanical effect of the protons and neutrons in a nucleus create a set of energy levels akin to the levels that govern electrons orbiting the nucleus.

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.

The experiments reported in Science establish these materials as a distinct state of matter «that exhibits macroscopic quantum mechanical effects,» Armitage said.

This bodes well for introducing quantum mechanical effects into both electronic and optical technologies.»

Thanks to subtle quantum mechanical effects, a lightweight Higgs needs a heavier companion particle «acting as a sort of bodyguard», Tonelli says.

Although these waves are far too feeble to detect directly, the researchers say, the radiation in principle could be used to try to detect weird quantum mechanical effects among large objects.

Though challenging, measuring that polarization would be a validation of an important quantum mechanical effect.

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.

As electrons crossed from one material to the other through the well, quantum mechanical effects altered their spins according to how positive or negative the field was.

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.

He also noted that the stretching and compressing changed the optical properties - the color - of the crystals due to the quantum mechanical effects.

Scientists have come closer than ever before to creating a laboratory - scale imitation of a black hole that emits Hawking radiation, the particles predicted to escape black holes due to quantum mechanical effects.

This suggests that, as predicted, the neutron star's ultraintense magnetic field is distorting empty space through a quantum mechanical effect involving ghostly «virtual» particles lurking in the vacuum — the sort of thing usually seen only on the atomic scale.

Park noted that the stretching and compressing changed the color of the crystals due to the quantum mechanical effects.

The helium core of a red giant continues to collapse until it is entirely supported by electron degeneracy pressure — a quantum mechanical effect that restricts how closely matter can be compacted.

The same researchers who pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electricity have figured out how to make their technique work in a form more suitable to industry.

IR absorption is a quantum mechanical effect.

If you accept diurnal variation as a proxy for net absorption, since the quantum mechanical effect of absorption is to heat the air, then you can see from Fig. 2 that most of the net absorption occurs below 850 mb and that above 500 mb the tiny amount of net absorption slowly increases showing that it is the result of the absorption of solar not terrestrial radiation.