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Undergrad What is the origin of Van der Waals force?
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Graduate Best coil design for homogeneus NMR RF pulse on liquid discs
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Undergrad Why are core electrons ejected by gammas
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High School Some Questions About Gold Nanoparticles
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Undergrad Why does low surface energy imply hydrophobicity?
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Graduate Zero Energy Wavefunctions in 1D superconductor
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Graduate Warren X-ray difrraction solutions manual
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High School Is Atomic Decay the Universal Standard for Measuring Seconds?
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Undergrad High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction: Explained
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Graduate Stimulated Raman in linear regime
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Graduate Theory to argue whether matrix elements vanish or not?
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Undergrad How Does Bragg's Diffraction Apply to FCC Lattices?
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Graduate DFT Code for Finite-Temperature Calculations
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Undergrad 2 basis sets, for which one is DFT calc faster?
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Undergrad First excited state of Helium. Triplets and Singlet
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Graduate How do Magnetic Gradiometers work?
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Graduate Superconductor,solid state physics
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Undergrad Plasma self-focusing index of refraction < 1?
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Undergrad Can we consider strained crystals as periodic crystals in theory and practice?
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Undergrad Superconductors and the Meissner effect
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Undergrad Why uranium glass glows green if it's under UV light?
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High School Hydrogen Transitions Quick Question
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Graduate Liquid Superconductors: Experiments and Possibilities
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Graduate Understanding Electron Kinetic Energy in Quantum Wells
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Undergrad How to use the momentum matrix of the reduced k-points
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Undergrad What is saturation magnetization
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Undergrad Scale invariant thermal fluctuations
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Graduate Diffusion of Hydrogen through Molybdenum alloy
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Undergrad Filament for thermionic emission in open air
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Undergrad Physical Dimensions of electron shells
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Undergrad How does Aluminum conduct electricity despite its non-conductive oxide layer?
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Graduate X-Ray Diffraction: Why Doesn't It Eject Electrons?
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Graduate DFT modelling of graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes etc
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Undergrad Xray NanoDiffraction of Si and SiGe
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Graduate How Does the Darwin Reflectivity Curve Apply to Multi-Layered X-ray Scattering?
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Undergrad Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging Explained
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Graduate How to calculate RDF (Radial Distribution Function)
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Graduate Why the physical meaning of the quantum Hall effect is important
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High School What is the cause of the mistake in calculating Fermi energy?
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Graduate Quick question about electron quasi particles....
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Graduate What Happens When Particles Travel in Non-Crystal Directions?
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Undergrad Limits to Superconductor Energy Storage?
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Graduate Kelvin Units: Help Understand Optics of Graphene
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Graduate Phonon energy and atomic vibration energy
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Undergrad Sommerfeld Expansion & Chemical Potential
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Undergrad How can I find the unitary matrix for diagonalizing a Hamiltonian numerically?
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High School How Do You Calculate the Total Mass in Kilograms from Atomic Mass Units?
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Undergrad Why normal Zeeman effect contains three components?
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Graduate Problem in continuous function of Excimer laser
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Undergrad Polymer Physics - Radius of Gyration
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Graduate Computing solutions to the radial Schroedinger equation?
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Undergrad Why is spin-orbit coupling neglected in Helium atom?
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Graduate EoS BPS-BPP + Pure Neutron Matter/ Baryonic Matter
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Undergrad Equation for modeling atomic spectra of all atoms
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Undergrad Predicting new crystal structures
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Graduate Surfaces that present expansion instead of relaxation?
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High School Existence of depletion layer in contact surface
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Undergrad What is the composition of the B1 phase in Cu-Zr alloy?
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Graduate How to upgrade gamess USA versions?
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Undergrad What Does 'Mass' Mean for Non-Existent Holes?
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Undergrad What are the rules that define a semiconductor?
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein Condensate Properties
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Graduate Nambu Spinor Notation in Kitaev spinless p-wave model
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Undergrad Semiconductor is the combination of elements in the groups IV and VI?
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Undergrad Does carrier pulse width vary with diffusion coefficient?
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Undergrad Pure semiconductor Quantum Dots?
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High School Light determination for emission spectrum
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Undergrad Emitting light to a Quantum dot
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Undergrad Number of moles of argon plasma to exert X pressure
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Graduate Velocity Map Imaging Spectrometer
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Undergrad Temperature impact on laser emission
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Undergrad Minority charge carriers - what are these?
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Undergrad Which are semiconductors in the periodic table?
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Undergrad Circular electron propagation in carbon nanotubes?
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High School Can Visible Light Excite Quantum Dots to Emit Fluorescence?
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High School Do quantum dots always have to be semiconductors?
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Graduate Adhesion mechanism between titanium and gold?
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High School What Happens to Atom Properties When Electrons Are Removed?
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High School Quantum Dot Emission: Band Gap & Heisenberg's Uncertainty
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Undergrad Reciprocal lattice in connection with band theory
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Undergrad Goldstone bosons in description of superfluidity
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Undergrad Understanding autocorrelations in 2D Ising model
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Graduate Relativistic Wavelength of Electron in Transmission Electron Microscop
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Graduate Atom-Light Interaction: Understanding d.E vs p.A Hamiltonian
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Undergrad Modulus in Metals versus Sound Vibration
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Undergrad Why perfect graphene has nonmagnetic state?
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Undergrad How does the London dispersion force really work?
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Graduate Computational Physics: Trivial & Non-Trivial Solutions, LCAO
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High School What Happens at the Atomic Level During a Collision?
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Undergrad Peak profile fitting in X-ray Crystallography, why Voigt?
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Undergrad Understanding Plasma Physics: Exploring Debye Length and Collision Frequency
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Undergrad Exciton Bohr Radius: What is It & Why Does it Matter?
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Undergrad Why does the heat capacity of solids drop exponentially at low temperatures?
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High School What is P Wave Symmetry and Its Role in Super Conductors?
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High School Microcanonical vs. Canonical Partition Functions: What's the Difference?
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Undergrad Where is the Fermi Level located?
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Graduate What's with 'virtual' phonons in BCS pairing?
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Graduate How the emission spectra can be affected by E/M field?
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Graduate Question about Berry phase in 1D polyacetylene
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Graduate Paschen notation for electronic states of Argon atom
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