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Graduate Impact of crystal defects on band diagram.?

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Graduate What Causes the Plateaus and Zeros in the Quantum Hall Effect?

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Graduate How to think about a Brillouin Zone?

  • Jesse Keeper
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High School Calculating Orbital Radius for Hydrogen Atom with Given Angular Velocity

  • psy
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High School What's the energy source for the Van der Waals' forces?

  • Mario Rossi
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Graduate Fourier Transforming a HgTe 2D Hamiltonian

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Graduate Conductive metals that are not prone to sputtering

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High School J.J. Thomson's Coaxial Cylinders

  • Christian Nguyen
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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?

  • voila
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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?

  • JeffCyr
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Undergrad High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction: Explained

  • Karl330
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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?

  • Yair Galili
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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

  • JamesHG
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Graduate How do Magnetic Gradiometers work?

  • Crosshash
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Graduate Superconductor,solid state physics

  • sarvesh upadhyay
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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?

  • PRB147
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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?

  • ORF
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High School Hydrogen Transitions Quick Question

  • orangepeelsnice
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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

  • sandf
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Undergrad What is saturation magnetization

  • Belhazred
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Undergrad Scale invariant thermal fluctuations

  • Carlos L. Janer
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Graduate Diffusion of Hydrogen through Molybdenum alloy

  • alu9
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Undergrad Filament for thermionic emission in open air

  • Gideon Y
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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?

  • sarvesh upadhyay
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Graduate DFT modelling of graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes etc

  • mic*
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Undergrad Xray NanoDiffraction of Si and SiGe

  • Karl330
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Graduate How Does the Darwin Reflectivity Curve Apply to Multi-Layered X-ray Scattering?

  • Karl330
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Undergrad Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging Explained

  • Karl330
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Graduate How to calculate RDF (Radial Distribution Function)

  • Auteng
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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....

  • joegibs
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Graduate What Happens When Particles Travel in Non-Crystal Directions?

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Undergrad Limits to Superconductor Energy Storage?

  • John Morrell
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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

  • RicardoMP
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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?

  • Nick Jarvis
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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

  • ChrisJ
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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?

  • misko
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Graduate EoS BPS-BPP + Pure Neutron Matter/ Baryonic Matter

  • Leonardo Machado
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Undergrad Equation for modeling atomic spectra of all atoms

  • Xilus
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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

  • Tahmeed
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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?

  • bluejay27
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Undergrad What are the rules that define a semiconductor?

  • bluejay27
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein Condensate Properties

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Graduate Nambu Spinor Notation in Kitaev spinless p-wave model

  • DeathbyGreen
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Undergrad Semiconductor is the combination of elements in the groups IV and VI?

  • bluejay27
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Undergrad Does carrier pulse width vary with diffusion coefficient?

  • HS-experiment
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Undergrad Pure semiconductor Quantum Dots?

  • bluejay27
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High School Light determination for emission spectrum

  • Klupa
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Undergrad Emitting light to a Quantum dot

  • bluejay27
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Undergrad Number of moles of argon plasma to exert X pressure

  • ahmed11
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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?

  • Kenny_L
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Undergrad Which are semiconductors in the periodic table?

  • bluejay27
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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?

  • bluejay27
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High School Do quantum dots always have to be semiconductors?

  • bluejay27
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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?

  • entrance
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High School Quantum Dot Emission: Band Gap & Heisenberg's Uncertainty

  • bluejay27
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Undergrad Reciprocal lattice in connection with band theory

  • Muhammad Ali20
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Undergrad Goldstone bosons in description of superfluidity

  • Anton Stepennov
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Undergrad Understanding autocorrelations in 2D Ising model

  • Al X
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Graduate Relativistic Wavelength of Electron in Transmission Electron Microscop

  • Chem.Stud.
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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

  • Kaiera Ai Tanay
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Undergrad Why perfect graphene has nonmagnetic state?

  • Hyeonyeong Kim
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Undergrad How does the London dispersion force really work?

  • sshai45
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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?

  • Kaneki123
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Undergrad Peak profile fitting in X-ray Crystallography, why Voigt?

  • C_Pu
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Undergrad Understanding Plasma Physics: Exploring Debye Length and Collision Frequency

  • physicist 12345
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Undergrad Exciton Bohr Radius: What is It & Why Does it Matter?

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