quantum-mechanical
- a word derived from quantum mechanics.
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Instead of representing data with bits that can be either one or zero, quantum computers harness the quantum-mechanical properties of so-called qubits that can be a combination of the two at the same time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Phonons are how heat transfer scientists describe the movement of heat in solids on a quantum-mechanical level.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023
How do these vibrations affect any quantum-mechanical processes in the molecule?
From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2023
This rising and falling pattern of entropy, known as the Page curve, applies to all normal quantum-mechanical systems.
From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2022
Moreover, he felt sure that the quantum-mechanical arguments which showed why diketopiperazine has the keto form should also hold for guanine and thymine.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
