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verbanticross (third-person singular simple present anticrosses, present participle anticrossing, simple past and past participle anticrossed)
present singular third person anticrosses · participle present anticrossing · participle past anticrossed · past anticrossed
- quantum mechanicsTo fail to cross in a graph of energy vs. electric field strength; characteristic of coherent superposition states
When the mixing becomes resonant, the phonon sideband anticrosses with the excited exciton state.
1998, Lev Zimin et al., “LO Phonon Renormalization in Optically Excited CuCl Nanocrystals”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 80, number 14
nounanticross (plural anticrosses)
plural anticrosses
- quantum mechanicsA case of anticrossing
These anticrosses arise from the mixing effect of heavy and light hole states.
1998, K. Chang, J.B. Xia, “The effects of electric field on the electronic structure of a semiconductor quantum dot”, in Journal of Applied Physics, volume 84
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