excitation
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“Putting all this together for a few atoms, under a strong pulsed excitation, is not science fiction at the moment,” del Valle says.
From Scientific American
Because noise is expected to act locally on the lattice, and topological codes have localized excitations, they quickly became the favorite scheme to protect quantum information.
From Scientific American
Normally a wavelike excitation, spinning through Higgs’s gravitational field, unless caught and entangled in a moment of viable wobble,
From Scientific American
Instead, the motors operate on the principle of a “current-energized synchronous machine,” which BMW describes as “the excitation of the rotor is triggered by the precisely metered supply of electrical energy.”
From The Verge
Each silicon neuron fires when it receives enough spikes, passing along its excitation to other neurons, and the system learns by reinforcing connections that fire regularly while paring away those that don’t.
From Science Magazine
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