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coherence

[koh-heer-uhns, -her-] / koʊˈhɪər əns, -ˈhɛr- /


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With the new method, the researchers increased the coherence time of the silicon-vacancy spin by roughly a factor of three.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

Understanding their parents’ experiences can bring coherence to family dynamics.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

But the record’s aesthetic coherence and wide range of moods give it a suite-like feel, leading to a worthy entry in the band’s slim-but-mighty catalog.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Whether that’s likely to lead to greater or less political coherence and national conflict is impossible to say, but both systems will face severe stress tests in the years ahead.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

I have found that few of these objections single out clarity or grace or coherence.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

It was during spin echo tests -- a well-established technique to measure coherence times -- that the team noticed funny peaks, corresponding to much longer coherences than those on the single ions.

From Science Daily Jan. 15, 2024

They showed that within a crystal jam-packed with rare-earth ions were qubit gems with much longer coherences than would typically be expected in such a dense system.

From Science Daily Jan. 15, 2024

One of the most striking demonstrations of these physics has been in unconventional superconductors, where signatures of enhanced electronic coherences and super-transport have been documented in the resulting non-equilibrium states.

From Science Daily Oct. 12, 2023

Knowledge lags in profound, accurate, honest, subtle and direct language spoken or written which always seems to contradict easy coherences of group whether polite table talk or political party or nation.

From New York Times May 21, 2016

Having thus settled the coherences, we move on with the narrative.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace




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