depumping

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adjective

That returns an atom (etc) to its ground state (or a less excited state)

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Meanings

adjectivedepumping (not comparable)
  1. not comparablenatural sciencesThat returns an atom (etc) to its ground state (or a less excited state)

    The depumping laser increases atom number in the magnetic trap and subsequent cooling stages by up to 65 % for the bosonic isotopes and up to 30 % for the fermionic isotope of strontium.

    2015, D.S. Barker, B.J. Reschovsky, N.C. Pisenti, G.K. Campbell, “Enhanced Magnetic Trap Loading for Atomic Strontium”, in arXiv

Origin

From de- + pumping.

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