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prethermal

prethermal adjective: prior to thermalization.

Adjective

prethermal (not comparable)

  1. Prior to thermalization
    • It features the crossover from a prequench to a prethermal state, finally evolving towards a thermal state on increasing length and time scales.2015, Michael Buchhold, Markus Heyl, Sebastian Diehl, “Prethermalization and Thermalization of a Quenched Interacting Luttinger Liquid”, in arXiv

Origin of prethermal

From pre- + thermal.

Questions about prethermal

What does prethermal mean?
Prethermal means prior to thermalization.
What part of speech is prethermal?
Prethermal is an adjective.

Words near prethermal in the dictionary

  1. pretheoretically
  2. pretherapeutic
  3. pretherapeutical
  4. pretherapeutically
  5. pretherapy
  6. prethermal
  7. prethermalization
  8. prethermalize
  9. prethermalized
  10. prethermalizes
  11. prethin

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