This is what physicists call a semiclassical argument—the physics used is classical, with a few modern ideas added on.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference

As I said, in a certain limit, quantum gravity in AdS becomes semiclassical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humankind’s Basic Picture of the Universe] Reference

The idea behind the semiclassical treatment of uncertainty is familiar to any dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference

In an appropriate limit, this definition is supposed to reduce to semiclassical supergravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humankind’s Basic Picture of the Universe] Reference

Examples of semiclassical models include the “Heisenberg microscope” (page 38) and the Bohr model of hydrogen (page 49).    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference

Rather, we belong in some particular semiclassical history, separated out from other histories by the process of decoherence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrow of Time FAQ] Reference

Also these semiclassical modells suggest that we might be able to create them in the first place but predict evaporation as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The BBC on the LHC] Reference

The most common semiclassical explanations of decoherence leave a lot to be desired, though, as they are inaccurate, and often somewhat circular.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference

There are indications that any stronger form would be either vacous or wrong (based on semiclassical GR alone with no reference to string theory).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landscape - For Real This Time] Reference

The semiclassical structure suited itself well to the purpose, and it was surrounded by picturesque faux "ruins" that removed most of the need for scenery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard Of London]

Its steep hills and semiclassical architecture, Laurent de Brunhoff tells me, were inspired by Borabadur in Java — to me, however, the city resembles San Francisco.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Family] Reference

The accretion rates the risk studies cite are actually orders of magnitude larger, because they use semiclassical arguments that are actually neccessary to get a serious estimate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The BBC on the LHC] Reference

It is in my usage of words beyond being a proposal, since it has been shown to be compatible with old physics, for example giving the same black hole entropy as semiclassical methods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here it comes...EuroScopes! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

AFAIK some theoretical physicists calls it theoretical tests, when for example string theory predicted black holes, and the same entropy for black holes as the semiclassical calculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Rennie interviews - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

As for the classical and semiclassical works and the words of the worthies and sages, the ancient and modern languages are different, and speech varies in the different parts of the empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lunheng] Reference

I was able to explain the observations quantitatively with a semiclassical model that reli ed on the density matrix formalism to account for quantum interference effects in coupled three-level systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodor W. Hänsch - Autobiography] Reference

My semiclassical interlude of 1970-80 was intellectually a very stimulating one, but it involved for me less interaction with experiments than had my earlier work on unimolecular reaction rates or on electron transfers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudolph A. Marcus - Biography] Reference

Hawking's semiclassical predictions that predicted the information loss are simply not rigorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

In a complete treatment, the information is preserved even though the complete treatment agrees with the semiclassical approximation wherever it should.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

Thirty years ago, the hypothesis that an exact theory happens to agree with the semiclassical processes but it can also encode all the information could have looked as a miracle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

However, Hawking’s semiclassical calculation leads to an exactly (piecewise) thermal final state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference

You’re not going to get very far with me, pretending that physics is semiclassical at the Planck scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference

Every time he did, Bohr found a semiclassical counterargument showing that Einstein’s proposed experiment had some hidden flaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference

But this isn’t entirely satisfactory, because one wants a reason why the semiclassical gravity reasoning of Hawking breaks down.    From Wordnik.com.  [April « 2008 « Imaginary Potential] Reference

While we don’t currently have an independent definition of the full quantum gravity theory, we do understand the semiclassical theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humankind’s Basic Picture of the Universe] Reference

Of course, we don’t know whether there is a real consistent perturbative string theory past the semiclassical level of that calculation, so he could turn out to be right in the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference

(That said, there are still many applications for which a semiclassical picture — treating the electromagnetic field as basically classical, but the atom as quantum mechanical — will suffice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask] Reference

It didn’t have to work out that the entropy of a black hole calculated from semiclassical gravity ala Hawking would be equal to the entropy of a corresponding gas of strings and branes, but it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two cheers for string theory] Reference

“It didn’t have to work out that the entropy of a black hole calculated from semiclassical gravity ala Hawking would be equal to the entropy of a corresponding gas of strings and branes, but it is.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two cheers for string theory] Reference

Huggett 2001, Wüthrich 2004 (Other Internet Resources section); J. Mattingly 2005) have argued that semiclassical gravity, a theory in which matter is quantized but spacetime is classical, is a viable alternative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quantum Gravity] Reference

In the semiclassical regime they may display it.    From Wordnik.com.  [How many species 3: an answer, and some more questions. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

1993, "Quantum chaos and semiclassical mechanics", in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intertheory Relations in Physics] Reference