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Graduate What are the charged vacancies
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Graduate Curie Temperature: Determining Critical Point & Lattice Changes
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Graduate Is the Energy Band of Wood vs Crystals similar?
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Graduate Fermi Surface Instability in Solid States: Explained
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Graduate Translated Russian papers (i.e. paper of Gor'kov)
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Graduate Why do most solids have periodic structure ?
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Graduate Pulsed NMR: T1 and T2 Relaxation Times of Curing Epoxy
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Graduate Homonuclear diatomic molecules spectrum
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Graduate Understanding Hybrid Orbitals and MO Theory in Chemical Bonding
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Graduate Topological Insulator : Edge states
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Graduate Are electrons in Valence band delocalized?
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SAXSess from Anton Paar (Small angle x-ray scattering camera)
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Graduate Is the hydrogen molecule bonding really covalent?
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Graduate Hubbard model of graphene in high U limit
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Graduate Entropy of diamond and graphite at 0K
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Graduate Forbidden gap in semiconductors.
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Graduate Understanding J Splitting in XPS
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Undergrad Reference for diamagnetic vs paramagnetic
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Undergrad Reducing intensity of xenon lamp
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Undergrad How Can Optical Devices Like QWP and HWP Determine the Polarization of Light?
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Graduate Tight binding hamiltonian matrix
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Graduate What Does 'Superconducting Instability' Mean?
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Undergrad What does the ratio c/a mean in solid state phyiscs
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Graduate Understanding the Tight-Binding Hamiltonian for Carbon Dimers
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Graduate EM response function of the Phase Action of a BCS superconductor
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Graduate Averaging over random potential of impurities
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Graduate Hexagonal lattice in reciprocal space
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Graduate Bravais lattices and lattices with a basis
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Graduate What is the Virial Theorem and its significance in Atomic Physics?
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Graduate Can anyone tell me about how to use the local density approximation in
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Undergrad Hi,Is it fair to say that magnetism rises from the fact that there
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Undergrad Why Are Subatomic Particles Best Detected Under Ice?
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Graduate Determining Exposure Times for Spectrographic Film
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Graduate Understanding the Differences Between Ising and Heisenberg Models
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Graduate Is the First Brillouin Zone Unique Despite Non-Unique Primitive Vectors?
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Undergrad Plotting Charge Density in 3D: Can My Data Be Formatted as an XYZ File?
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Graduate Imaginary Part of Dielectric function
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Undergrad Energy of Electron: Jumping to Higher States
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Graduate Semiconductors: charge neutrality
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Graduate Why is the exchange interaction isotropic in a simple system of 2 electrons?
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Undergrad Why Do Nanoparticles Use Metals Like Gold & Silver?
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Graduate How the x-ray diffractometer caculate the lattice constant or miller indices?
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Graduate Band diagram of pn-junction diode at low temperature
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Graduate Metastable deep defect in semiconductors
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Graduate U(1) symmetry breaking within the superluid phase
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Graduate How Do You Measure the Frequencies of Natural Crystals?
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Graduate Energy bands diagram in semiconductors
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Graduate Optimizing Focal Plane Alignment for Optical Tweezers for Researchers
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Graduate A tight biinding calcualtion of graphene like structure
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Graduate Can Singlets Be Shared in Valence Bond Solid States?
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Undergrad Why Can't P-N Junction Connected Series Act as a P-N-P Transistor?
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High School Can You Provide Evidence for the Existence of Atoms?
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Graduate Density of states in a quantum well
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Graduate Had computational Physics today successfully modelled any reaction in chemistry?
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Graduate Rf Plasma Simulation for material processing
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Graduate How far is quantum computing from reality?
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Graduate What are the Different Approaches for DFT and How Do I Choose the Right One?
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Undergrad Raman Spectroscopy graph question
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Graduate What Are the Practical Uses of Band Gaps and Free Carrier Absorption?
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Graduate Finding Bond Lengths: A Physicist's Guide
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Undergrad Could Molybdenite Replace Silicon?
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Graduate Derivation of the atomic form factor
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Undergrad Electron Hole Pair: How Does Charge Conservation Apply?
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Graduate Dynamics of electron in crystal lattice
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Graduate Why cant a component of binary solution ever be 100%
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Undergrad Why is the Raman spectrum for iron oxide not showing a signal?
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Graduate Problem: Cartesian tensor to Spherical Tensor
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Graduate X-Ray Diffraction: Single Crystal Peak?
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Graduate Strained PbTe Shows Strong Thermoelectric Properties
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Undergrad Why water boils at higher temperature at higher pressure
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Graduate How do you analyze interactions in K-space with vector $\rho$ and planes m ± 2?
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Undergrad Semiconductor Carrier Concentration Basics
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Graduate Ohmic junction in Cat's-whisker detector
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Graduate Why do high frequency states get less energy?
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Graduate Hyperfine Splitting the same as Polarization?
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Graduate Is Bose-Einstein Condensation a First-Order Phase Transition?
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Graduate Understanding Electron Probability: How Wave Function Squared Gives Us Answers
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Graduate Looking for particular Diatomic Molecular Constants
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Graduate Bravais latices and crystalographic group
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Graduate Trying to understand the Brillouin zone
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Graduate Is this free energy possible ?
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Undergrad Semiconducor devices Versus conductors
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Undergrad I don't understand photodiodes?
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Graduate Neutronium/neutron-degenerate matter: critical mass for stability?
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Graduate What is the optimal basis set for a full CI calculation of low Z elements?
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Graduate What is the spectrum of a plasma outside the visible range?
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Graduate What is the difference between space and point groups?
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Graduate An easy way to generate the unit cell
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Undergrad Determining Uncertainty in XRD
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Graduate Reflectivity metals at high frequency
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Undergrad Doubt regarding silicon waffers and silicon diodes
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Graduate Limits of classical views of the atomic structure
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Graduate Start Learning Density Functional Theory for Beginners
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Graduate Raman Scattering: How is it Possible for an IR Inactive Molecule?
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Undergrad PN-junction Breakdown: Sudden Increase in Reverse Current
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Undergrad Why is CO2 liquid less dense than CO2 solid
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Undergrad Why do doped semiconductors have majority carriers?
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Graduate Spin-orbit Hamiltonian in tight-binding
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Graduate In semiconductors, can phonons create excitons?
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Graduate Surface definition in crystals question
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