How to Use ground state in a Sentence
ground state
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From the ground state, the atom can go to the dark state or the bright state.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
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The result is that, on average, the atom is never quite in the ground state.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2018
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To relax back to the ground state, the electron has to lose energy.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
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As the compound decays back to a ground state, light is emitted.
—Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2016
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There are two states that are almost at the same energy, called the ground state and the storage state.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2018
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The fact that the ground state of the system was uniquely specified by that energy took care of the rest.
—Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
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This happened despite the fact that the Bob atom always started out in its ground state.
—Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
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This change means the BEC's quantum state has jumped from its ground state to its first excited state.
—Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
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In essence, the symmetry of the interaction is broken by the ground state.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 30 Mar. 2020
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Nearly 20% of residents in the battle ground state are young people, among the highest rates in the country.
—Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2020
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The state and energy are read out and used to contrive a new guess for the ground state configuration.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2017
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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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Did that splitting bring the universe to its final, lowest-energy ground state?
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
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The system can reach this second state from the ground state by absorbing a photon of a different energy.
—Philip Ball, WIRED, 9 June 2019
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And the process could be repeated until the geometry dictated a large set of constraints on the system's ground state.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
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An array of lasers is used to cool the ion to its quantum ground state, where the momentum and position uncertainties of the ion are at their minimum.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2021
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But, in a stand-your-ground state such as Florida, Zimmerman had a lawful right to patrol the neighborhood near Martin’s home.
—Ronald Sullivan, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2021
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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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Wilczek wondered whether, through similar physics, a system could have a ground state that repeated in some measurable way in time instead of in space.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 27 Nov. 2019
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This kept the excited structure from relaxing back down to a ground state without emitting photons.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2017
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In Aspelmeyer’s experiment, the particle was in its ground state 70% of the time on average.
—Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
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Florida is Trump’s biggest battle ground state and Cubans make an import voting bloc for the president.
—Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2020
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The quasiparticles are expected to quickly lose energy and so won't be able to transfer enough to raise a qubit from its ground state to its excited state.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
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The arrangement of protons and neutrons that results in the lowest energy is the most stable material and is called ground state.
—Artemis Spyrou, The Conversation, 24 May 2022
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Aspelmeyer’s team has only forced the bead into its motional ground state along one dimension, not all three.
—Sophia Chen, Wired, 30 Jan. 2020
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To be a time crystal, an object must exhibit perpetual motion in its ground state.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
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For the electron in hydrogen to be excited from the ground state (lowest energy level) to the next level would require light with a 122 nanometer wavelength.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Sep. 2020
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Kentucky is a stand-your-ground state, which allows deadly force when someone is violently attacked.
—NBC News, 23 May 2020
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When these excited atoms eventually return to their normal ground state, the excess energy from the collision shoots off in the form of vibrant light.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
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