How to Use quantum in a Sentence

quantum

1 of 2 noun
  • Not so in a world governed by the strange laws of quantum physics.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2023
  • The quantum of jobs added was the weakest number since April 2021.
    Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • But Roscheisen, 52, presents it as a preview of the age of quantum computing.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And this goes by the name of what is called the zero-point energy of quantum systems.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • And how might quantum physics redefine it in the future?
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
  • They’ve even been used to study models in string theory and quantum physics.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • This line of work aims to get a clear image of the notoriously hard-to-view quantum world.
    Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Until a few years ago, such quantum tricks weren’t thought to have anything to do with gravity.
    Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But no one knows what new quantum algorithms might be cooked up by researchers in the future.
    Wired, 9 July 2022
  • The future of quantum computing could be paved with a novel form of matter: the time crystal.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2022
  • If the lack of snow aroused pleasure, the gray clouds that brought rain may have concealed an event that could have also have created a small quantum of joy.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • In 1979, the Creek tribe did just that, adopting a new constitution that tied membership to blood quantum.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2022
  • The ones and zeros – and everything in between – of quantum computing.
    Daniel Lidar, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2023
  • There are bits like Ant-Man zipping into the quantum realm and coming back as a baby or an old man that make no sense, but they are largely played for laughs.
    Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • He’s been falling down YouTube rabbit holes on quantum jumping.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But in their desire to avoid action as much as possibly, the quantum and the everyday are perfectly in sync.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2023
  • The finding, if true, would have meant that the fall of RSA encryption to quantum computing could come much sooner than most people believed.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
  • And one way to inch toward this complete theory is to study quantum fluctuations in the space-time fabric.
    Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • And companies based in other countries are setting up outposts here to hire quantum-savvy techies.
    Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • This property is often mistaken for the source of the power of quantum computing.
    Daniel Lidar, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2023
  • There is already precedent for sending quantum signals through the air using satellites, Awschalom says.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2022
  • The key to safeguarding society in advancing quantum technology is to stay ahead of the game.
    Mauritz Kop, Fortune, 16 May 2023
  • Advertisement The work is also about time travel, light and space, connections and quantum physics.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Potential readers may suspect a quantum cake both had and eaten.
    Julian Baggini, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Even a little bit of useful quantum computing has the potential to really shake things up.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
  • Advertisement This floating trick wasn’t magic — it was based on quantum physics.
    Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
  • In any case, a key focus of the next few generations of quantum processors will be enabling these longer-range connections.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The quantum threat is existential, not just an impact to the bottom line and insurance paperwork.
    Denis Mandich, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • While green tech such as hybrid cloud is already speeding up the fight against climate change, quantum computing has the potential to make a major impact in the future.
    Quartz, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The equivalent of a bit flip in the quantum computing world means inverting the probability of a bit being measured as a one or a zero.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
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quantum

2 of 2 adjective
  • There’s a whole lot of places where the quantum world and the everyday world don’t mesh.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2023
  • The author of ‘The Road’ takes on a quantum mystery in a pair of heady fictions.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Neutrons are a bit of an unsung hero in the quantum world.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
  • Time crystals are among the many strange features of quantum physics.
    Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 15 July 2022
  • Who knows what strange quantum tricks the universe may get up to in its cold future.
    Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Janet blew up the core of Kang’s quantum device, which saved the multiverse.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The team ends up traveling back in time via the quantum realm to retrieve the stones and bring the other half of the universe back.
    Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Or is there some sort of quantum gossip field that needs to be studied?
    Vulture, 4 June 2023
  • When light beams and quantum things go awry, all five are sucked into the Realm, and microverse chaos begins.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Perry and Roberts had started dating before that with the help of a quantum physics paper.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The result has been a quantum shift in numerous EU policies.
    Carl Bildt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The next decade, Paul Dirac advanced an alternative vision of the quantum world.
    Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
  • To that point, Taranto pulls a useful metaphor out of Helen’s status as a quantum physicist.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This result means the BEC's quantum state picked up a geometric phase of exactly 2π.
    Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • Gu takes quantum courses at Stanford and has been known to cue up podcasts devoted to the subject.
    Eddie Pells, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, pi shows up so often in models dealing with tiny quantum things that physicists combined pi and h to make h-bar.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, a group of researchers from the University of Chicago just made a quantum breakthrough in chemistry.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Do the Universe, is where there’s sort of this quantum entanglement, split-universe thing.
    Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Their conjecture put a bound on the powers of quantum computers.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2022
  • Eve is foiled, however, by the fact that measurement resolves the quantum state of the particles that Bob and Alice use.
    Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2023
  • For many who work on quantum computers, Tang’s work was a reckoning.
    Quanta Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The Ryu-Takayanagi formula works only in the absence of quantum effects in the AdS theory.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
  • This is a pretty wild idea, that our universe could have been formed from the quantum chaos within another universe’s black hole.
    Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Understanding the quantum universe is not an easy thing.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Because the regular version that so many physicists know and love doesn’t quite fit nicely into the quantum world.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • So far, however, no one has been able to take it to the next step and come up with a unified theory that includes quantum gravity.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • The physicists hope to be able to use this same technique on quantum sensors to aid in the hunt for evidence of dark matter and other phenomena.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
  • All steps of a quantum computation must happen within that time frame.
    Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Characters shrink to far smaller than human size (and even smaller than others at the quantum level).
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The physical qubits that make up each virtual qubit are like those oblivious quantum spies.
    Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024

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