The phrase "alternating states" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing systems, processes, or phenomena that switch between different conditions or modes.
Example: "The experiment demonstrated the behavior of the particles in alternating states, revealing their unique properties."
Alternatives: "fluctuating conditions" or "switching states".
A one-dimensional medium consisting of two alternating states is first studied.
The cinematic dark/light polarity of the cellar and the lighted rooms above suggested to me a meditation upon human life's arrangement above a great precipice of alternating states: creativity and ignorance, order and confusion, love and indifference..
A person who experiences alternating states of depression and mania (abnormal elevation of mood) or hypomania (distinct, though not necessarily abnormal, elevation of mood) is said to suffer from bipolar disorder.
Why not concentrate on what the writer did rather than on what he failed to do? Reading Bergreen, with his account of Agee's alternating states of euphoria and despair, one can see the outlines of what a later age would call a manic-depressive temperament, medicated in a way then considered appropriate for a man of Agee's background — with cigarettes, alcohol, and sex.
Your ego (or alter-ego as I like to refer to it) is that evil side of you which puts you in alternating states of fear, worthlessness or grandiosity -- all wrapped up in juicy drama.
In the present study, we have applied multiscale analysis to the ISI fluctuations of spike trains of the cortical and hippocampal neurons of rats in the alternating states of waking and sleeping.
After participated in controversial studies by Timothy Leary involving hallucinogens, he continued researching alternate states of consciousness.
Turner, R. E., Rabalais, N. N. & Justic, D. Gulf of Mexico hypoxia: alternate states and a legacy.
The diffusion-coalesce dichotomy represent endpoints rather than alternate states of urban growth.
Practices that laypeople witness in nonmystical states are conducted in alternate states of consciousness by these professional ecstatics.
To resolve the problem of definition, scholars of comparative mysticism have opted for inclusive approaches that discuss religious uses of alternate states of consciousness without further qualifications.
