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A state with energy above the ground state of the specified Hamiltonian; it may be stationary, metastable, resonant, or unstable.
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This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.
Atoms possess excited bound, metastable, resonant, and continuum states above the ground state.
The target represents a state, property, observable, or state-dependent description associated with the source system or theory.
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Photochemistry describes electronically excited molecular states prepared by photon absorption and their competing relaxation, energy-transfer, charge-transfer, and reaction pathways.
A theory, law, or interaction describes the behavior of the target within a stated regime. The edge detail must state important limits or qualifications.
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An excited state is a quantum state above the ground-state energy of the specified system.
The target is a member or subtype of the broader source class.
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This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.
An excited atomic state with an allowed radiative channel may decay by spontaneous emission; metastability and nonradiative channels depend on selection rules and environment.
A physical process transforms the source into, or produces, the target under the conditions stated in the edge detail.
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