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quantum

[kwon-tuhm] / ˈkwɒn təm /
NOUN
quantity
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Since taking the helm of the tech giant, he has made big structural moves and placed large bets on technologies including quantum computing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Krishna says the company is counting on that demand to continue for years to come, until the company can debut its next trillion-dollar business: quantum computing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

IBM is investing its profits in its future, says Krishna, particularly as a leader in quantum computing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Rather than treating gravity only as a fundamental force or as the curvature of spacetime, GfE connects it to information and entropy at the quantum level.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

For every event at the quantum level, the current universe splits into multiple universes.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

This process excites the organic molecules, which then release energy as light quanta.

From Science Daily Mar. 4, 2026

At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.

From Scientific American Jun. 19, 2023

General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.

From New York Times May 8, 2023

In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time, such as a week.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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