Mixed State

A mixed state may be:

  • Mixed state (psychiatry) - Simultaneous depression and (hypo)mania.
  • Mixed state (physics) - A concept in quantum statistical mechanics.

Famous quotes containing the words mixed and/or state:

    “What an antithetical mind!—tenderness, roughness—delicacy, coarseness—sentiment, sensuality—soaring and grovelling, dirt and deity—all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “I met a traveler from Arkansas
    Who boasted of his state as beautiful
    For diamonds and apples.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)