thermalization
- noun
- /ˌθɜrməlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
- In the experiment, the thermalization process allowed the atoms to exchange energy until their temperatures were equal.
- thermalization time
Examples
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Achieving Bose-Einstein condensation requires a thermalization time that is shorter than the storage time of the particles—a principle that applies both to photons and atoms.
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The thermalization time by elastic binary collisions is typically 10 ms, so that BEC can be achieved in what is essentially a metastable gaseous phase.
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And that makes us want to use a high band gap to avoid the thermalization losses.
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But again, thermalization sort of, you know, can be checked by looking at the time evolution of the quantity that you want to average.
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Because the e-h pairs have an excess energy smaller than the energy of optical phonons, the thermalization is internal to the plasma.
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The magnitude of the observed anisotropic flow effect is sensitive to the degree of thermalization at the collision's earliest moments.
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As this thermalization takes place, the excitonic absorption is strongly reduced because thermalized carriers begin reaching the bottom of the bands.
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Necessary steps toward achieving that goal include optimized transduction at higher resonant frequencies and improvements in thermalization, that is, the cooling of the mechanical mode.
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From this type of experiment, one can also extract information on the dynamics of the thermalization of "isolated" plasmas, an old problem of thermodynamics related to the Boltzmann H-theorem.
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The scientists measured the thermalization of the particles after they reached a stable temperature.
How Thermalized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
thermalization = thermalize (transparent) = thermal + ize + ation
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ation' to the recognizable verb 'thermalize', yielding 'the process of thermalizing'.
Etymology
The word thermalization comes from the root therm- meaning 'heat', a root you see in thermometer and thermos. The ending -ization means 'the process of', so thermalization is the process where things exchange energy until they reach the same temperature.