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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

The origins of the information paradox can be traced back to the incompatibility between the sequestering of information by the event horizon and the quantum-mechanical requirement of information flow outside the black hole.

From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2022

Not remembering which of the bases had amino groups, he could not qualitatively describe the quantum-mechanical argument until he asked Chargaff to write out their formulas.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson