How to Use quantum jump in a Sentence

quantum jump

noun
  • More than detecting the quantum jump in real time, the research sets up the foundation stone for many quantum developments in the near future.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Researchers at the Stanford University in the US have achieved a global first by measuring a quantum jump in sound in real time.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Thus, the long resonance, or ‘ringdown time,’ of the resonator allowed the researchers to take hundreds of readings and exactly spot when its vibrations turned from 1 to 0 or made its quantum jump.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The concept of a quantum jump has been around for more than a 100 years, with theoretical physicist Niels Bohr being the first to propose it in 1913.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Nearly two decades later, a team of scientists led by Amir Safavi-Naeini, a physicist at Stanford University, has observed a quantum jump in phonons, the fundamental unit of sound.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026

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