Technological Advancements courtesy of quantum physics

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I am doing an English report for school and I am going over a lot of the basic theories of quantum mechanics. I was wondering if someone had a list of a lot of technological things made possible after the discover of quantum theory. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks a lot friends.
 
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Well basically all of electronics. QM is the basis of solid state physics and that's what gave us semiconductors, transistors, integrated circuits and so on.
 
Lasers.

too short.

I said: Lasers...
 
Most or all of the modern forms of medcal imaging (e.g. MRI) depend on QM.
 
sure, almost all depend on QM.
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!

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