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• quantum bit (noun)
  1. computing a unit of quantum information, stored in a two-state quantum system
• quantum chromodynamics (noun)
  1. hadrons including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles ; it assumes that strongly interacting particles are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together
• quantum electrodynamics (noun)
  1. a relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons
• quantum field theory (noun)
  1. the branch of quantum physics that is concerned with the theory of fields; it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states
• quantum jump (noun)
  1. physics an abrupt transition of an electron or atom or molecule from one quantum state to another with the emission or absorption of a quantum
  2. a sudden large increase or advance
• quantum leap (noun)
  1. a very large and important development or improvement
• quantum mechanics (noun)
  1. the scientific study of the way that atoms and smaller parts of things behave
• quantum physics (noun)
  1. the branch of physics based on quantum theory
• quantum theory (noun)
  1. the idea that energy, especially light, travels in separate pieces and not in a continuous form
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