polarization
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The researchers estimated that the resulting polarization was between 100,000 and 10 million times stronger than the polarization seen in much larger flexoelectric systems.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
It’s not a silver bullet that cures polarization, settles complicated policy debates or ensures that everyone gets along.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
This revolution is happening on both sides of the aisle—a surprising fact, perhaps, given the polarization of gender roles and the place of women in family and society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
However, the researchers found a way to stabilize polarization within a metallic system and use it to influence electronic behavior.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026
Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"Spatially variable birefringence, that is, the difference in the propagation of different polarizations of light, acts like a synthetic magnetic field," explains Dr. Piotr Kapuściński of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
Two photons can be entangled so that each is in an uncertain both-ways state, but their polarizations are correlated so that if one is horizontal the other must be vertical and vice versa.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022
“It may create a divide between the transitional government and the public. We are looking for a decent discussion based on the interests of Sudan without any polarizations or accusations.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020
Before being measured, the photons’ polarizations are in a superposition of being both horizontal and vertical.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2020
Heat, light, electricity, magnetism, are by some regarded as specific fluids; by others, as undulations of one or more specific fluid; and by a third class, as undulations or polarizations of ordinary matter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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