semiclassical

[sem-ee-klas-i-kuhl, sem-ahy-]

adjective

1. of or relating to music by classical composers that is familiar or appealing to the general public.

2. of or relating to music intermediate in style between classical and popular music.

Other Word Forms

• semiclassically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of semiclassical¹

First recorded in 1900–05; semi- + classical

Example Sentences

"Semiclassical models greatly simplify the quantum problem but at the cost of losing crucial information; they effectively ignore possible entanglement between photons and atoms, and we found that in some cases this is not a good approximation," the authors note.

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Instead, physicists often turn to what's known as semiclassical physics -- a middle-ground approach that keeps just enough quantum behavior to stay accurate, while discarding details that have little effect on the outcome.

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TWA is one such semiclassical approach that dates back to the 1970s, but is limited to isolated, idealized quantum systems where no energy is gained or lost.

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"Plenty of groups have tried to do this before us. It's known that certain complicated quantum systems could be solved efficiently with a semiclassical approach," Marino says.

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These are systems that can't be solved with a semiclassical approach.

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