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an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends
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Using scattering amplitudes to detect strings Some previous studies estimate that a string is about 10−35 m in size.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2025
For instance, to describe the interaction of strings, the study authors employed scattering amplitudes, mathematical expressions that describe the likelihood of particles interacting and scattering off each other in a collision.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2025
And that function involves two complex numbers, α and β (called quantum amplitudes), which, being complex numbers, have real parts and imaginary parts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2018
In contrast to a classical bit, which can only be in one of its two basic states, a qubit can be in any of a continuum of possible states, as defined by the values of the quantum amplitudes α and β.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2018
In 2019, the gang started looking for a geometrical route to all of these amplitudes.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Both have bare-bones amplitudes.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
The amplitudes take the form of fractions, with a numerator above a denominator.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2025
For instance, to describe the interaction of strings, the study authors employed scattering amplitudes, mathematical expressions that describe the likelihood of particles interacting and scattering off each other in a collision.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2025
And that function involves two complex numbers, α and β (called quantum amplitudes), which, being complex numbers, have real parts and imaginary parts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2018
In contrast to a classical bit, which can only be in one of its two basic states, a qubit can be in any of a continuum of possible states, as defined by the values of the quantum amplitudes α and β.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2018
In 2019, the gang started looking for a geometrical route to all of these amplitudes.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Both have bare-bones amplitudes.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
The amplitudes take the form of fractions, with a numerator above a denominator.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Amplitudes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amplitudes. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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