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:

    “It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it ... and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied ... and it is all one.”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)

    “When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)