macroscopic

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This switching changes the material's macroscopic electrical properties and reverses which direction has easier electrical flow, a property known as the diode effect, where current flows more easily in one direction than the other.

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025

In the words of the committee, "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

According to the study, "fluctuations in density, energy and entropy in water are regulated by these quantum interactions, with effects ranging from the nanometre to the macroscopic scale," says researcher Luis E. Coronas.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Entropy is essentially the number of such microstates consistent with the same macroscopic variables, he deduced.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

The peculiar feature of the mutants, he discovered, was that the essential plan of macroscopic structures was often maintained—only the segment switched its position or identity in the body of the fly.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee