How to Use excited state in a Sentence

excited state

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• This keeps the rubidium atoms diffuse, slow moving and in a highly excited state.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
• To get around this problem, Devoret and colleagues employ a clever trick involving a second excited state.
  — Philip Ball, WIRED, 9 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The researchers prepared several initial configurations of ground and excited states.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
• 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
• This puts the molecule into an energetically excited state.
  — Kerry Hanson, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017

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