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Undergrad Soft Question: Possible Applications of Rydberg Polarons?
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Undergrad Width of one electron shell of a hydrogen atom
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Undergrad Is the total Spin operator a vector
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Graduate Dyson's equation and Green's functions
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Undergrad Flux pinning effect and hysteresis loop
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Graduate Topological Phases: Understanding Kitaev's Paper
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Undergrad What is the significance of the Ground State Lamb Shift in modern physics?
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Undergrad ABC model for GaAs infrared LED
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Undergrad Feshbach resonance: ELI5 or resources for undergraduate
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Undergrad What Limits the Number of Bravais Lattices to Just 14?
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Graduate Reflection or emission of a photon
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Undergrad Photon BEC: Hypothetical Universe End-State
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Graduate Change in phonon dispersion with pressure
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Undergrad Identification of index of Bragg peaks for NaCl
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Undergrad How to index single crystal Bragg peaks
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High School Practical use of Bose-Einstein condensate?
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Graduate Derivation in Ashcroft and Mermin (The Pseudopotential)
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Graduate Physical meaning of terms in the Qi, Wu, Zhang model
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Undergrad Free Vibrations of a linear triatomic molecule
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Undergrad Is Negative Mass a Reality or Just a Scientific Analogy?
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Undergrad Metallic hydrogen created in the lab
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Undergrad Where does the name of XY model come from?
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Graduate How to calculate the degeneracy of an energy band?
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Undergrad Understanding Magnetometer & SQUID Property Measurement Systems
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Graduate Laser beam represented with complex conjugate?
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Undergrad Examples of atoms that have more than 8 electrons in shell
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Undergrad How do I make an atomic oscillation?
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Graduate Understanding Hypersonic vs Regular Sound Speed in Condensed Matter
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Undergrad Density Functional Theory and pseudopotentials
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Undergrad Hydrogen plasma compression with liquid Mercury piston
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Undergrad Superinsulators: How Do They Achieve Infinite Resistivity on an Atomic Level?
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Atomic Radii Table | Element & Isotope Charge Radius
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Solving F-N Tunneling Equation Unit Match Problem
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High School Laser Production: Uncovering the Science and Processes Behind It
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Graduate What is the value of optical effective electron mass for tin
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High School Why aren't molecular vibrations synchronized in a way that can be observed?
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Graduate Ashcroft and Mermin's chapter 3, difficulties....
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Undergrad What is an optically active electron?
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Undergrad Laue Diffraction Intensity Distribution
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Undergrad GPS and Cs atomic clock question
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Graduate Determining Superfluid/Normal Fluid & Critical Velocity of 4He
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Graduate What is the significance of tilted vortex lines in superconductor vortexes?
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Graduate Semiconductor temperature
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High School Absorption bands of liquid and vapor water
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Graduate Can Relative Permittivity of Aluminum Be Calculated from Its Plasma Frequency?
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Undergrad Regarding the precision and accuracy of Atomic mass
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Undergrad Rotational Spectra: ΔJ Selection Rule & Emission Part
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Undergrad Relationship between the depletion region and the band gap of a diode?
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Graduate Surface excitons on dielectric surfaces/interfaces
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Undergrad P & Q branches confusion in rovibrational transitions + rant
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Undergrad What Determines the Breakability of Sulfur Clumps at the Atomic Level?
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Graduate Anderson model with no hybridization
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Graduate Why is the nearest hopping kept real in Haldane model?
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Graduate The analytical linear tetrahedron method?
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Undergrad Detectable interference between counter-propagating modes
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Undergrad Can Higher Beam Energies Revolutionize Semiconductor Doping Techniques?
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Graduate Self-Teaching Topological Insulators/Phases/Symmetry
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Graduate 'Massless' Electrons in Graphene
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Undergrad How Does Weiss Molecular Field Theory Model Magnetization Symmetry?
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Graduate Semiconductor can be a conductor
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Graduate Determination of photoelectron counts from the ARPES signal
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Undergrad Understanding AC and Optical Conductivity: Conflicting Information Clarified
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Undergrad Mass of Holes: Measuring Physically
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Graduate Lattice non-perturbative definition
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Undergrad Is There an Analogous Law for X-ray Diffraction Minima?
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Graduate Understanding Effective Mass in Crystal Potentials
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Undergrad Understanding the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation: A Mathematical Proof
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Graduate Difference between conduction & convection current density?
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Graduate Phonon-assisted energy transfer between lanthanides
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Undergrad How to simulate a lattice with boundary conditions?
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Graduate Origin of the polarization in BaTiO3 unit cell
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Graduate Calculating asymptotic behavior of a correlation function
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Graduate Why electrical polarization can be expressed as Berry phase?
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High School What is the relation between wavelength and orbital?
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Undergrad Why is the parabolic shape of holes broader than that of electrons?
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Undergrad Cyclotron resonance and Landau Levels
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Undergrad Help with Hohenberg-Kohn Theorem
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High School Could Copper's 29th Ionization Energy Be Used to Create Uranium-235?
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High School Condensed matter in a Black Hole
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Undergrad Difference between binding energy and ionization energy
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Undergrad Why isn't the depletion layer width equal in the p and n
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Graduate Convergence of lattice Ising model
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Graduate What frequencies allow for the long wavelength limit in solid state physics?
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Graduate Eigenvectors of a Floquet Hamiltonian
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Undergrad How can I obtain the reciprocal lattice of graphene?
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Undergrad Derivation of the atomic nucleus formula
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Undergrad How Does Rubidium's Electron Spin Affect Its Energy Levels?
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High School Removing a proton from mercury
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High School What is the significance of a propagating Majorana mode in topological qubits?
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Undergrad Band theory and qualitative character of bands
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Undergrad Is it theoretically possible to measure polariton mass?
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Graduate How to get Peierls substitution in edge state?
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Undergrad Miller indices for hexagonal crystal systems
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High School Electrical Breakdown: Insulator Behavior After High Voltage
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Graduate Detecting Single Phonons: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Delay in normal-to-Meissner state
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Graduate Pierels substitution integral approximation
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Exploring Breit Interactions: Books for Conceptual Understanding and Application
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High School Why Negative Hydrogen/Deuterium Ion Generators?
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High School The first light atomic nucleus with a second face
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