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quantum jump

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quantum jump [′kwän·təm ′jəmp]
(quantum mechanics)
The transition of a quantum system from one stationary state to another, accompanied by emission or absorption of energy.


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Fueled by the Internet and the increasing popularity of customer relationship management, sales force automation (SFA) software revenues are about to take a quantum jump.
``The quantum jump we didn't know about back then was cable,'' Halberstam said during a stop in Los Angeles earlier this week.
Applying a variety of techniques developed in recent years to search for patterns in encrypted data and other strings of digits, Erber has studied a sequence of 20,000 numbers representing the time intervals between successive quantum jumps in the NIST data.
 
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