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coherence

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


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Dr. Alexey Shkarin, a researcher in the Nano-Optics Division at MPL, explained: "The quality of quantum emitters can be evaluated by their coherence times, which indicate how long they keep their quantumness."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The honour could also go to a new imaging technique, called optical coherence tomography.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

It lacks aesthetic appeal, organizational coherence, and the perception of substantive balance.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Some of his team's problems are inherited, but the new manager has not built any kind of tactical coherence in the opening weeks of the campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

It was time to put all of the pieces together, make coherence where before there had been none.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

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

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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