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:

    “All nature is a temple where the alive
    Pillars breathe often a tremor of mixed words;
    Man wanders in a forest of accords
    That peer familiarly from each ogive.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “[T]he Congregational minister in a neighboring town definitely stated that ‘the same spirit which drove the herd of swine into the sea drove the Baptists into the water, and that they were hurried along by the devil until the rite was performed.’”
    —For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)