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adiabatic

In biology and physics, describing a process that occurs without loss or gain of heat, especially the expansion or contraction of a gas in which a change takes place in the pressure or volume, although no heat is allowed to enter or leave. Adiabatic processes can be both non-reversible and approximately reversible.



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Quasi-bound orbits may be eliminated by adiabatically reducing the strength of the trapping field, however during this procedure a large fraction of energetically trapped neutrons are lost along with the quasi-trapped neutrons.
On the measurement of the neutron lifetime using ultracold neutrons ... by Penttila, S.I. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
For [delta][omega] [much less than] 0 the atoms follow the driving field adiabatically and thus the radio frequency and the light modulation oscillate in phase.
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