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1. Those holes and electrons are captured successively by impurity centers exciting certain metastable states not accessible to the excitons.
2. This would give the structure a hexagonal pattern which is the metastable state ( or mechanical equilibrium ) of the 2D specimen.
3. The generalization is considered to be a good candidate for formulating a theory of non-non-ergodicity or metastable states.
4. Supercooled water would be an example of a metastable state . talk ) 03 : 52, 21 August 2011 ( UTC)
5. The classic onium is positronium, which consists of an electron and a positron bound together as a long-lived metastable state.
6. A metastable state is at a local potential energy minimum that is very far from the absolute potential energy minimum for a system.
7. Experimentally the collision cross section of metastable states of rare gases with the halogens is similar to that of alkali metals with halogens.
8. Differential cross sections in inelastic scattering contain resonance peaks that indicate the creation of metastable states and contain information about their energy and lifetime.
9. Thermodynamically, the supercooled liquid is in the metastable state with respect to the crystalline phase, and it is likely to crystallize suddenly.
10. The dephasing of state | 3 \ rangle is especially important; ideally | 3 \ rangle should be a robust, metastable state.