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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?
- wolram
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High School Microcanonical vs. Canonical Partition Functions: What's the Difference?
- soumobrata
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Undergrad Where is the Fermi Level located?
- bluejay27
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Graduate What's with 'virtual' phonons in BCS pairing?
- Creator
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Graduate How the emission spectra can be affected by E/M field?
- ORF
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Graduate Question about Berry phase in 1D polyacetylene
- voila
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Graduate Paschen notation for electronic states of Argon atom
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Undergrad Recent (?) noteworthy (?) physics paper
- TeethWhitener
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Undergrad Depletion region and Schottky Barriers
- aaaa202
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Undergrad Average energy of the electrons at T = 0
- Paolis
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein distribution for photons
- TheCanadian
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Undergrad Difference between absorption and scattering cross sections
- Madap
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Graduate Detection limits for Raman spectroscopy
- penofguino
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Undergrad Polariton, magnon, or something similar
- Demystifier
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High School Forward Bias: Why does width of depletion layer decrease?
- takando12
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Undergrad Scaling and the renormalization (sub)group
- Carlos L. Janer
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Graduate Difference between Hubbard and Heisenberg-model
- Abigale
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Undergrad Could XY crystal be a special case of X2YZ crystal?
- qnach
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High School What Makes Samarium Hexaboride a Paradoxical Material?
- Robert Sanchez
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Graduate Hund's rule and strong spin-orbit interacion
- Abigale
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Undergrad Heavy metals and semiconductors
- bluejay27
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Undergrad Attractive Kronig-Penney Potential Dispersion Relation Confirmation
- essil
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Graduate Uses of a silicon semiconductor at high temperatures
- JMFL
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Undergrad Atomic Spectrometry: Sharp Atomic Spectrum & Noise Reduction
- goggles31
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Undergrad Superconductor momentum conservation
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Undergrad Spectroscopy of Rb - crossover peaks more intense?
- Mattcr_95
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Undergrad Are Quantum Dots Spherical? Identifying Size of Colloidal Solution
- bluejay27
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Undergrad Electron Spin vs Domain Creation in Permanent Magnets
- NTL01
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Undergrad Crystal Structure Database (Pb0.5Sn0.5)Te
- qnach
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Undergrad Graphene Substrate: Can it Maintain 2D Form?
- crijn dR
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Graduate Zeeman energy with an effective mass
- Bjarke Nicolaisen
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Undergrad Nitrogen-Vacancy centres in Diamond for NMR spectroscopy
- Jon.G
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Graduate Ising model and Hamilton function
- LagrangeEuler
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Graduate Linear enercy transform (LET) and momentum
- rudyb
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Graduate Is there anyone who can explain Strukturbericht symbol?
- gaus12777
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High School Is a single (naked) proton atomic/elemental Hydrogen
- hollowman
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Undergrad Fe Lattice: Band Structure & Fermi Surface Location
- hominnimoh
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High School If an imaginary quasiparticle has a mass depending on speed
- Noduagga
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Graduate Do we need Lindblad operators to describe spontaneous emission
- td21
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Graduate Where to find experimental data?
- jonjacson
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High School Time reversal symmetry in topological insulator
- limarodessa
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Undergrad Discovering the Science: Understanding Cool Gases and their Temperature
- SteveManPhy076
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Undergrad Visible light reflection v.s X-Ray reflection
- cj20x2
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Graduate Lattice Boltzmann simulation with arbitrary equilibrium func
- simoncks
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Graduate Difference between ASE and stimulated emission
- TheCanadian
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Undergrad Hydrogen electron transition intensity 2p - 1s
- FrostInMyTeeth
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Undergrad Is it Possible to Index a Cubic Lattice with h^2+k^2+l^2=7?
- elevenb
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Undergrad Why does LED band gap decrease as temperature increases?
- Kara386
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Graduate Symmetry of hamiltonian under renormalization
- simoncks
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Undergrad How Do Quantum Dots Emit UV Light?
- bluejay27
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Undergrad Laser Gain Location - Where is it?
- bluejay27
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Graduate Deriving Smakula's Equation for Color Center in KCl Crystal
- Mrinmoy Naskar
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Graduate Selective Surfaces for Solar Thermal Conversion
- Carlos de Meo
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Undergrad Why CdS/CdSe are more widely used as quantum dots?
- bluejay27
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Undergrad How to understand diffusive and ballistic transport?
- KFC
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Graduate Efficiently Computing Eigenvalues of a Sparse Banded Matrix
- Jimmy and Bimmy
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High School Is the Fermi Level in Metals Crucial for Understanding Conductivity?
- Jimmy87
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Graduate Tools to transform primitive cell orientation
- bsmile
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Undergrad Why triatomic gases have internal energy 7RT/2 ?
- Buffu
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Graduate Probability of photon emission from quantum dot
- shirashi
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Undergrad Can a circularly Polarized Laser impart momentum to air?
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Undergrad How can you derive the effective mass?
- bluejay27
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Undergrad What is the maximum size of a Quantum Dot?
- bluejay27
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Graduate Do all metals have the same Fermi energy level at constant temperature?
- Assaf Peled
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Graduate Where can I find data on electrical conductivity?
- jonjacson
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Graduate Formal definition of quantum dot
- cryptist
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Graduate Change in Fermi level with gradient of doping concentration
- HARSHARAJ
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Undergrad Phase transitions university classes
- Carlos L. Janer
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Graduate Landau Diamagnetism Explained: Free Electron Gas
- chikou24i
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Undergrad Are the positive charges from a hole and a proton ?
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Graduate Primitive cell parameter given chemical unit cell info
- bsmile
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Insights Can We See an Atom? - Comments
- klotza
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Graduate [Semiconductor] Aluminum doped Silicon, valance band&holes
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Undergrad Photosensitive properties of Molybdenum Disulphide
- Nikhil Rajagopalan
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Graduate Getting Started with CASTEP: Installing & Configuring for DFT Calculations
- Ben Wilson
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High School Non-equilibrium variation in electron density in a metal
- Eric Walker
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Undergrad Is it possible to calculate Tsupercon from the unit cell?
- jonjacson
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Graduate Counting Radial Nodes between Orbitals with Same l
- sams
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Graduate Boundary Conductance in nanomaterials
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Graduate Understanding Markov Chains in Metropolis Monte Carlo Ising Simulation
- LagrangeEuler
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Undergrad What is the Derivation Process of Kramer's Law?
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Graduate Do Alpha and Beta Spins Commute in Quantum Mechanics?
- sams
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Graduate Flexibility and chemical bonding
- Simon Chen
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Undergrad Can Someone Explain the Derivation of This Pink Equation?
- Turion
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Undergrad What k states are occupied in a band
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Undergrad The Shrödinger Equation & Hydrogen Molecule Bonding
- Higgsono
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Graduate Band structure after compensation doping
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Undergrad How Does Spin-Orbit Interaction Influence Effective Mass in Semiconductors?
- aaaa202
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Graduate Can a molecular dynamics simulation enter a limit cycle?
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Undergrad Fermi distribution interpretation
- EmilyRuck
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Undergrad Schroedinger equation for metal / semiconductor
- aaaa202
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Undergrad Location of donor atom electrons in N-type Silicon
- CoolDude420
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Graduate Dipole moment at the sub atomic level
- Dilema
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Undergrad Help Understanding Electron Spin Resonance
- RedDelicious
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Graduate Critical exponents - experimental values
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High School What is the significance of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics?
- ChrisVer
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Graduate How Do Electric and Magnetic Fields Influence Atomic Orbital Shapes?
- Shubhamroy047
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Graduate Berry phase and gauge dependence
- Baisl
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Undergrad Phonon energy in absorption of indirect band gap
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