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ground state

The state of least possible energy in a physical system, as of elementary particles. Also called ground level.

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ground state

ground level

(General Physics) the lowest energy state of an atom, molecule, particle, etc. Compare excited⁴

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ground′ state`

the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.

[1925–30]

ground state

The state of lowest possible energy, especially of subatomic particles. When subatomic particles, such as electrons and neutrons, are at a higher level of energy than their ground states, they emit radiation.

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ground state - (physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle

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In Figures 3(a) and 3(b) one can see that the dependence of the ground state energy on the magnetic field is feebly manifested only in a weak oscillation of the ground state energy near a straight line.

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Importantly, for most of these reactions, the spin multiplicity assigned to the products does not match the spin corresponding to the ground state of the reactants.

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The current paper is mainly motivated by [15] and applies the least energy solution obtained in [17,18] to show the existence of the ground state solution to the critical system (2) under proper conditions.

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The calculated total energies were fitted to the Murnaghan's equation of state (EOS) [2], to determine the phase transition pressure and other ground state properties.

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"The reason why the atom "dies," that is it returns to its original ground state, is that it sees the very small variations in the electromagnetic field which must exist due to quantum theory, known as vacuum fluctuations," says GE[micro]ran Johansson, Professor of Theoretical and Applied Quantum Physics and leader of the theory group.

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Proprietary combinations of small molecule modulators, which include ROCK, GSK3 and MEK pathway inhibitors, used in the culture systems were found to be critical in promoting characteristics of the ground state of pluripotcncy including pluripotent culture stability, homogeneity and survival.

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However, the quantum yield of photolesion formation is very low, suggesting a highly efficient nonradiative deactivation of excited DNA to the ground state consistent with the photostability of nucleobases [3].