Sentences with phrase «quantum nature»

To get closer to the true, quantum nature of matter, physicist David Pritchard has been splitting atoms down the middle, fiddling with the halves, and then putting them back together.

This is thus the first time that the full quantum nature of electronic transport in the scanning tunneling microscope has shown itself.

Now Planck's constant is 6.6 x 10 ^ 27 erg - seconds so you can see that if we consider what will happen to the earth's atmosphere in the course of a few hundred seconds is likely to have had some interaction of a purely quantum nature somewhere and that change, over and above what could be calculated in a Newtonian manner will then need to be allowed for in your futile attempt to predict the weather / climate.

«Our new work in neutrino cosmology allows the study of the microscopic, quantum nature of fundamental particles — the basic, subatomic building blocks of nature — by simulating the universe at its largest, cosmological scale,» said Paris.

And these laws had a minimum disturbance which could not be reduced because of the quantum nature of matter.

As researchers begin feeding energy into the system, the atoms begin to interact with each other, and it's those interactions, Lukin said, that give the system its quantum nature.

Despite his early advocacy of the quantum nature of reality, by the 1920s Einstein had begun voicing serious doubts about the theory.

Torque, in the context of light, stems from the spin angular momentum of photons (particles of light), and its measurement is mechanical proof of the quantum nature of light.

But qubits are fragile — their quantum nature means they can't hold data for long before errors creep in.

This link between tensor networks, entanglement and gravity may prove useful in studying the physics of black holes or in investigating the quantum nature of spacetime at very small distances, Orús proposes.

A clever experiment preserves the quantum nature of a set of electromagnetic waves even when they're split apart, a stunt that could help make working quantum computers

When a giant mirrored ball descended from above — to underscore the quantum nature of light, according to Baldwin — I thought only of Saturday Night Fever.

Electrons have already demonstrated their quantum nature.

«Trickling electrons: Close to absolute zero, the particles exhibit their quantum nature.»

At these extremely low temperatures, the electrons reveal their quantum nature.

«We've applied a very powerful measurement technique to get these exquisite visualizations that are allowing us to directly see the quantum nature of the material,» said coauthor Alan Tennant, chief scientist for ORNL's Neutron Sciences Directorate.

Physicists have used the quantum nature of matter to obtain a highly precise value for the universal gravitational constant, the «big G» that appears in Isaac Newton's law of how gravity pulls together everything, from planets to apples.

It would also be our first direct evidence for the quantum nature of gravity, the most outstanding puzzle in theoretical physics over the past century.

Researchers have studied how light can be used to «see» the quantum nature of an electronic material.

Then something special happens: electrons and light start to move in concert, unveiling their quantum nature at such large scale that it could observed with a special type of microscope.

This effect, called antiferromagnetism, happens at very low temperatures due to the quantum nature of the cold system.

The quantum nature of the electronic spin introduces another degree of complexity and competition with another quantum phenomenon: the Kondo effect.

Cool down particles to sufficiently low temperatures and their quantum nature will start to emerge.

The first half of the book deals with classical physical optics; the second principally with the quantum nature of light.

For the next step, researchers have proposed testing the quantum nature of living organisms like viruses.

In 1925 — 26 a new theory that could explain the discrete, quantum nature of the spectra was developed by the German physicists Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger.

Seth Godin describes this concept of creating a category in another way: «The quantum nature of remarkability is simple: stuff succeeds today because it's worth talking about.

She will discuss our evolving consciousness as well as review the quantum nature of cellular body and shifting form.