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adiabatic
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adiabatic [¦ad·ē·ə¦bad·ik]
(thermodynamics)
Referring to any change in which there is no gain or loss of heat.


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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.
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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