Sentence examples for quantum of a from inspiring English sources

To explain superfluidity, Landau postulated that in addition to the phonon (the quantum of a sound wave) there exists another collective excitation, the roton (the quantum of vortex movement).

The film will be named after "Quantum of Solace," a story that originally appeared in "For Your Eyes Only," a 1960 collection by the Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Thus a friend is given a quantum of moondust by a love-struck scientist, and sees fit to swallow it, thus becoming the subject of furious jealousy.

This character is pivotal in mixture's pleasantness especially in cases where an addition of small quanta of a substance to a mixture increases its pleasantness in a nonlinear manner.

Given a closed quantum subgroup of a locally compact quantum group, we study induction of unitary corepresentations of the quantum subgroup to the ambient quantum group.

The clause construes a quantum of change or a 'figure' (Halliday and Matthiessen 2014).

A "quantum of solace" is a fancy phrase for "quantity of comfort".

He was also quite good in Quantum of Solace, an underrated smash hit which suffered from shaky Bourne action cam syndrome and a shaky script.

Max Planck in 1900 called his discovery of the universal quantum of action an "act of desperation".

We also prove that every compact quantum subgroup of a co-amenable quantum group is co-amenable.

A surface plasmon, which is a quantum of collective electron oscillation on a metal surface, can be excited by light under certain optical configurations.