How to Use ground state in a Sentence

ground state

noun

• From the ground state, the atom can go to the dark state or the bright state.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
• The result is that, on average, the atom is never quite in the ground state.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2018
• To relax back to the ground state, the electron has to lose energy.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
• As the compound decays back to a ground state, light is emitted.
  — Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2016
• 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
• 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
• This happened despite the fact that the Bob atom always started out in its ground state.
  — Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
• 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
• In essence, the symmetry of the interaction is broken by the ground state.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 30 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Did that splitting bring the universe to its final, lowest-energy ground state?
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This kept the excited structure from relaxing back down to a ground state without emitting photons.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2017
• In Aspelmeyer’s experiment, the particle was in its ground state 70% of the time on average.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To be a time crystal, an object must exhibit perpetual motion in its ground state.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
• 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
• Kentucky is a stand-your-ground state, which allows deadly force when someone is violently attacked.
  — NBC News, 23 May 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 30 Jul 2024