Definition of Quantum physics

1. Noun. The branch of physics based on quantum theory.

Generic synonyms: Natural Philosophy, Physics
Specialized synonyms: Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory

Definition of Quantum physics

1. Noun. (physics) quantum mechanics ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quantum Physics

quantum field theory
quantum foam
quantum gravitation
quantum gravity
quantum hadrodynamics
quantum jump
quantum leap
quantum limit
quantum measurement problem
quantum mechanical
quantum mechanics
quantum meruit
quantum mottle
quantum number
quantum onion
quantum physics (current term)
quantum process tomography
quantum rectum
quantum requirement
quantum satis
quantum solid
quantum soup
quantum speciation
quantum spin liquid
quantum state
quantum states
quantum sufficiat
quantum suicide
quantum teleportation
quantum theories

Literary usage of Quantum physics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Max Born, who died last January in his 88th year, was one of the great names of the "heroic era of quantum physics." This was Niels Bohr's phrase for the ..."

2. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"The True Indeterminism of quantum physics. Though determinate causal relations do govern second stage unpredictable, chaotic phenomena such as tornadoes, ..."

3. The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum by George Kean Sweetnam (2000)
"... coupling," became their major contribution to quantum physics. It explained the appearance of energies that could not be attributed to the transitions ..."

4. The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum by George Kean Sweetnam (2000)
"This innovation, soon known as "Russell-Saunders coupling," became their major contribution to quantum physics. It explained the appearance of energies that ..."

5. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"Quantum mechanics is the branch of quantum physics that accounts for matter at the ... quantum physics is the branch of physics based on quantum theory. ..."

6. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology by Nist (2005)
"The standard of technical research in the quantum physics Division in collaboration with the University of Colorado is very high. ..."

7. Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing And Employing America for a by Cosepup, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (2007)
"In 1998, he visited the Institute for Science Education at the University in Kiel, where he investigated student understanding of quantum physics. ..."

8. Optimality: The Second Erich L. Lehmann Symposium by Javier Rojo (2006)
"One relates to the idea basic to quantum physics of "non-commutative" probability as described in Parthasarathy (1992) and Whittle (1992). ..."

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