macroscopic

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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

However, on a nanoscopic scale, materials are not homogeneous anymore and the macroscopic description of the material is insufficient.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

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

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

The researchers confirmed the robots worked as programmed by varying the temperature and comparing the readouts with the values from a macroscopic thermometer placed in the solution.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 7, 2024

One can therefore ask: does quantum theory allow time travel on a macroscopic scale, which people could use?

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