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:

    “The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray,
    and mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.”
    —Günther Grass (b. 1927)