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
• The state of the friend and the state of the electron are merely correlated — entangled — while the electron remains in a superposition of states.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2024
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024