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These observations confirmed that the experiment had successfully produced genuine quantum superpositions composed of truly nonclassical motional states.

From Science Daily • Jun. 15, 2026

Laser light can cool a nanoscale-sized glass sphere to its motional ground state.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

That year, Hall filed a patent for a “loudspeaker with high frequency motional feedback.”

From The Verge • Oct. 18, 2017

A 40.0 V motional emf was generated in the Earth’s 5.00×10−5 T field, while moving at 7.80×103 m/s .

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Real sympathy is motional as well as emotional; energetic, as well as pathetic, taking no pleasure in "tears, idle tears."

From A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature, Lines Worth Knowing by Heart by Various