How to Use excited state in a Sentence
excited state
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The atoms in the Harvard machine serve as qubits, their on-off states being either the ground state or an excited state called a Rydberg state.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
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For both the excited states and the ground states, the energy difference between the two spin states is small enough that a sound vibration can flip the spin and change the qubit state.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2018
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The other two are excited states, which also have a spin up and spin down separation, but are at a much higher energy than the ground states.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2018
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This keeps the rubidium atoms diffuse, slow moving and in a highly excited state.
—Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
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To get around this problem, Devoret and colleagues employ a clever trick involving a second excited state.
—Philip Ball, WIRED, 9 June 2019
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All the excess electrons knock the plasma molecules into an excited state, which then emit photons to produce that telltale glow.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2020
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At first, the ions will vibrate in an excited state, but diode lasers like those found in DVD players will be used to gradually scatter away their extra kinetic energy.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
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The system transitions by passing through a mixture of the excited state and ground state, a quantum phenomenon known as superposition.
—Eleni Petrakou, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2020
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Vilke said that people in Prude’s excited state often die with or without restraint, and that being restrained from further exertion had actually helped him.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
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Thorium-229 is special among isotopes because of the extremely low energy of its lowest excited state, meaning it’s the best candidate for a measurable standard that can be used to make a practical clock.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2020
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By choosing the energy of the protons correctly, Beryllium in a particular excited state is produced, which quickly decays back to its ground state by emitting an electron and a positron.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
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The researchers prepared several initial configurations of ground and excited states.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
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Devoret and colleagues wanted to watch a single artificial atom jump between its lowest-energy (ground) state and an energetically excited state.
—Philip Ball, WIRED, 9 June 2019
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This puts the molecule into an energetically excited state.
—Kerry Hanson, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
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