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Graduate Why Do UV Photoabsorption Cross Sections Show a Kink at 10-100 Angstrom?

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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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Undergrad Atomic Radii Table | Element & Isotope Charge Radius

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Graduate 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 AC transport data query (using a PPMS system)

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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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Undergrad What Are the Best Resources to Understand Resonant Tunneling Diodes?

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Graduate Semiconductor temperature

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High School A couple of questions about diodes and the depletion region

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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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High School What Surprised Geiger in the Gold Foil Experiment on Atom Structure?

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Undergrad Regarding the precision and accuracy of Atomic mass

  • Sebastiaan
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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 Dependence of loss factor tan(δ) upon H in MnZn ferrites

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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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High School What is the utility of grounding in this Transistor case?

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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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Graduate Question on Drift-Diffusion Equation

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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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High School How to create a material with specific characteristics

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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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Graduate Understanding JFET Biased Junctions and Bandstructure for Exam Preparation

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Graduate 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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Undergrad Why is gold heavier than lead?

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Undergrad Does the electron generated by the donor have no role?

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Graduate Discover the Density and Specific Heat Properties of CuMn | Data Search Included

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Undergrad Why is the absorption depth for GaAs more than for Germanium?

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Graduate Wulff construction for surface energy dependent on depth

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Graduate Black hole as topological insulator

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Undergrad What is the main role of doping in a solar cell?

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Graduate Give some ideas on project about spectroscopy

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Graduate Change of ε with pressure for Semiconductors

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Graduate Solids with different sound velocity at diffrent tempratures

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Graduate Localized states and density of states

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High School Understanding Input Signals in Transistors

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High School Question in Franck and Hertz Experiment

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High School Pressure of Bose-Einstein condensate

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Graduate Multiplication and Addition to get an integer

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Undergrad Longitudinal resistivity in Integer Quantum Hall Effect

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