That is plenty of time for them to relax into their ground state, the most energetically stable condition they can be in.
Bombard an ordinary hydrogen atom with microwaves of the right frequency and you will lift it out of its ground state by flipping the spin of its electron.
Dr Cirac and Dr Romero-Isart therefore propose putting the virus inside a microscopic cavity and cooling it down to its state of lowest energy (ground state, in physics parlance) using a piece of apparatus known as a laser trap.
Once that is done, another laser pulse will jostle the virus from its ground state into an excited state, just as a single atom is excited by moving one of its electrons from a lower to a higher orbital.
Despite its recent setbacks, the voucher movement is gaining ground in state legislatures and some state courts.
The CDU has lost ground in most state elections since Mrs Merkel began her second term in 2009.
The new Long Island City facility is being built from the ground up with state-of-the-art security systems, fire protection and climate controls.
It's not a popular notion now, but I'll stand my ground: Wherever state power is restrained in these dangerous days, that is good news for a better future.
The former First Lady pledged that there would be at least one Clinton on the ground in the state every day last week, but, says Burns, she appears in venues with much smaller crowds with several hundred attendees, compared to Obama's several thousand.
But the Macedonian majority accuses the rebels of trying to seize ground and split the state.
The federal government has been engaged in the response since this weekend, with FEMA representatives on the ground working directly with state and local officials.
The main purpose of the seminar was to give an general idea of current state of ground water in Uzbekistan, scientific-educational activities and the area of usage of underground water and determination of future trends relating to improvement of research methods and educational approaches with development of practical recommendations.
Another photo in the Selma Room shows Foster on the ground after being attacked by state troopers that day.
The Met Office said because of the continuing saturated state of the ground this may lead to further localised flooding.
They are all but certain to lose their current majority of governorships, and to cede ground to the Republicans in state legislatures.
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Obviously Heysel and the Bradford fire changed things in England but the state of the ground made me realise how lucky we are.
He returned back to Earth sometime later, looking shell-shocked but alive as a crowd of men along the desert ground rejoiced, video from state-run Press TV showed.
And can we think of any benighted populace, ground beneath the jackboot of state tyranny, who would so speedily and rhapsodically declare that this hackneyed phraseology represented the very flower of rhetoric?
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It is clear that political (including personal and dynastic) treaties of the extinguished state fall to the ground.
Stony Brook has more ground to make up than Kent State, but Senk isn't giving up on this season.
IR You say that armies owned and operated by the state cannot fight bloody ground wars abroad because of political resistance at home.
People thought it was a fluke, but it clearly is not a fluke because you are seeing these Democratic state legislators also gaining ground.
Crowds of flag-waving Cubans lined the street on which Benedict's motorcade traveled, as Cuban state television captured both ground and aerial footage of the trip.
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But in his inaugural speech at a ceremonial palace in the old city centre, Mr Pena Nieto said the state had "lost ground" since his party left power.
The terrorist that he was, Yasser Arafat took a different dimension to international politics by giving his compatriots a real and sovereign state on the historical ground of their ancestors.
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Indeed, just hours after his would-be assassin had been wrestled to the ground, the French head of state was hosting a garden party for the public, on a packed Elysee Palace lawn, grabbing the microphone like a seasoned compere.
In a decree carried on Sunday by the official Wafa news agency, Mr Abbas said the move on labelling public documents would help bolster the Palestinian state "on the ground and build its institutions... and its sovereignty over the its land".
And that is why we have a State Department official on the ground there.
Moreover, their moral high ground has been undermined by the dismal state of their own business.
International and state media are on the ground in Chengdu documenting the natural disaster and the government's response.
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