excited state
noun
: a state of a physical system (such as an atomic nucleus, an atom, or a molecule) that is higher in energy than the ground state
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This isotope requires only about eight electron volts of energy to jump to an excited state, and physicists have no idea why.
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
So on average the flipping takes the first qubit from its excited state to its ground state and draws energy out of the first qubit.
—Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
The process repeats itself, generating a second annihilator in the triplet excited state.
—Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
This puts the atoms and molecules in an excited state.
—The Oregonian, oregonlive, 13 July 2023
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
So on average the flipping takes the first qubit from its excited state to its ground state and draws energy out of the first qubit.
—Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
The process repeats itself, generating a second annihilator in the triplet excited state.
—Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
This puts the atoms and molecules in an excited state.
—The Oregonian, oregonlive, 13 July 2023
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