How to Use superposition in a Sentence

superposition

noun
  • In this scenario, a qubit can be in some superposition of the values +1 and –1.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • In superposition, quantum bits exist in two states—both a 0 and a 1—at the same time.
    Karen Hao, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The irony is that Einstein himself is in a superposition of being both wrong and right.
    Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
  • In a quantum sense, its superposition remains in both states at the same time, as a wave function that is both alive and dead.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2021
  • Thanks to superposition, the two fields cancel and create a net field of zero.
    WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Due to a property called superposition, a qubit can represent both a 0 and 1 at the same time.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Alice measures the spin of a stream of electrons that are prepared in a superposition state.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2020
  • This state of neither just 1 or just 0 is known as a quantum superposition.
    Daniel Lidar, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2023
  • To show the superposition, our arrow in the plot rotates 90 degrees.
    Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • Then use Shor’s method to convert that large superposition into a simpler state and read the result.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The length of time the lasers are applied, as well as their relative phases, control the resulting superposition state of the qubit.
    Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • The team found that they are caused by a process known as linear superposition, in which two wave systems cross and amplify each other.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
  • This allows a set of two (or more) atoms to entangle in a quantum superposition.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In contrast, the qubit produces a binary response to infinitely many queries using the property of quantum superposition.
    William Mark Stuckey, The Conversation, 30 July 2024
  • Rubino’s team looked at a quantum superposition with a state that evolves both backward and forward in time.
    Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Unlike traditional bits in a computer, which are set to 0 or 1, qubits can be set to zero, one or a superposition of 0 and 1.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Driving a coherent operation for both ground states, place the qubit in a superposition of 1 and 0, readying it for use.
    Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • Take the case where a massive object is put into a superposition of two possible locations at the same time.
    Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Qubits can be in a superposition—strange combinations of 0s and 1s.
    Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The circuit’s superposition was then transferred to the oscillation of the crystal.
    Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • So that superposition may have been intentional on the part of the artists, who sought to capture those animating effects.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The superposition of waves – both from the reference and the object – creates an interference pattern, which is called a hologram.
    Partha Banerjee, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
  • If large objects and their observers obey the Schrödinger equation, then the universal wave function includes all observers and objects and their links in superposition.
    Sidney Perkowitz, JSTOR Daily, 5 June 2024
  • In a quality called superposition, a particle can exist in many states at once.
    Pamir Alpay, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And that means that cherished ideas from quantum mechanics, like superposition, break down?
    Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Absent the detection process, the phonon will remain in the superposition state of being both transmitted and reflected.
    Andrew N. Cleland, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
  • The superposition changes depending on the role that topology plays in your computer.
    Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Specifically, those resources are about 20 million qubits and about eight hours of them running in superposition.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The path integral is a way of describing a particle's travels in terms of a quantum superposition of all possible routes.
    Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
  • And since the whole universe exists as part of a single superposition probability wave, the universe splits itself into new timelines all the time.
    Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2023

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