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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Quantum theory, especially the quantum theory of the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules.

Wiktionary

  1. n. physics The branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms for classical Newtonian ones.
  2. n. uncountable, by extension Something overly complicated or detailed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the branch of quantum physics that accounts for matter at the atomic level; an extension of statistical mechanics based on quantum theory (especially the Pauli exclusion principle)

Examples

  • “The test confirmed an under­lying theory of quantum mechanics — namely, that a measurement made on one photon has an instantaneous ef­fect on the nature of another photon.”

    Prayers To Broken Stones

  • “When I was a graduate student in physical chemistry at Yale, I had the remarkable experience of taking a course in relativistic quantum mechanics from Nobel laureate Willis Lamb.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Language of God

  • “My intellectual life was immersed in quantum mechanics and second-order differential equations, and my heroes were the giants of physics—Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and Paul Dirac.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Language of God

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  1. wave mechanics
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  5. Heisenberg
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  4. Bose
  5. tunneling
  1. Fukui
  2. wave function
  3. stepwise
  4. Dauphine-Libre
  5. uncertainty principle
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  2. roald hoffmann
  3. classical
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  • kewpid “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics�?
    — Richard Feynman Jul 14, 2008

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