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quanta

noun as in quantity

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This process allows the penetration and pinning of magnetic flux quanta, which in turn creates a magnetic stray field.

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Photons are "light quanta" that constitute the basic building blocks making up the electromagnetic radiation field.

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Previous laboratory experiments have mostly measured these quanta of H2+ indirectly and none of them have used lasers.

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It is especially notable to this process that the emergent composite fermion particle is unique in that the electron captures six quantized magnetic flux quanta, forming the most intricate composite fermion known to date.

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In order to see and study single quanta of sound, the number of phonons must be minimized.

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