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Undergrad Average energy of the electrons at T = 0
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein distribution for photons
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Undergrad Difference between absorption and scattering cross sections
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Graduate Detection limits for Raman spectroscopy
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Undergrad Polariton, magnon, or something similar
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High School Forward Bias: Why does width of depletion layer decrease?
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Undergrad Scaling and the renormalization (sub)group
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Graduate Difference between Hubbard and Heisenberg-model
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Undergrad Could XY crystal be a special case of X2YZ crystal?
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High School What Makes Samarium Hexaboride a Paradoxical Material?
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Graduate Hund's rule and strong spin-orbit interacion
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Undergrad Heavy metals and semiconductors
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Undergrad Attractive Kronig-Penney Potential Dispersion Relation Confirmation
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Graduate Uses of a silicon semiconductor at high temperatures
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Undergrad Atomic Spectrometry: Sharp Atomic Spectrum & Noise Reduction
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Undergrad Superconductor momentum conservation
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Undergrad Spectroscopy of Rb - crossover peaks more intense?
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Undergrad Are Quantum Dots Spherical? Identifying Size of Colloidal Solution
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Undergrad Electron Spin vs Domain Creation in Permanent Magnets
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Undergrad Crystal Structure Database (Pb0.5Sn0.5)Te
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Undergrad Graphene Substrate: Can it Maintain 2D Form?
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Graduate Zeeman energy with an effective mass
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Undergrad Nitrogen-Vacancy centres in Diamond for NMR spectroscopy
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Graduate Ising model and Hamilton function
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Graduate Linear enercy transform (LET) and momentum
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Graduate Is there anyone who can explain Strukturbericht symbol?
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High School Is a single (naked) proton atomic/elemental Hydrogen
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Undergrad Fe Lattice: Band Structure & Fermi Surface Location
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High School If an imaginary quasiparticle has a mass depending on speed
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Graduate Do we need Lindblad operators to describe spontaneous emission
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Graduate Where to find experimental data?
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High School Time reversal symmetry in topological insulator
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Undergrad Discovering the Science: Understanding Cool Gases and their Temperature
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Undergrad Visible light reflection v.s X-Ray reflection
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Graduate Lattice Boltzmann simulation with arbitrary equilibrium func
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Graduate Difference between ASE and stimulated emission
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Undergrad Hydrogen electron transition intensity 2p - 1s
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Undergrad Is it Possible to Index a Cubic Lattice with h^2+k^2+l^2=7?
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Undergrad Why does LED band gap decrease as temperature increases?
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Graduate Symmetry of hamiltonian under renormalization
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Undergrad How Do Quantum Dots Emit UV Light?
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Undergrad Laser Gain Location - Where is it?
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Graduate Deriving Smakula's Equation for Color Center in KCl Crystal
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Graduate Selective Surfaces for Solar Thermal Conversion
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Undergrad Why CdS/CdSe are more widely used as quantum dots?
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Undergrad How to understand diffusive and ballistic transport?
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Graduate Efficiently Computing Eigenvalues of a Sparse Banded Matrix
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High School Is the Fermi Level in Metals Crucial for Understanding Conductivity?
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Graduate Tools to transform primitive cell orientation
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Undergrad Why triatomic gases have internal energy 7RT/2 ?
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Graduate Probability of photon emission from quantum dot
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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?
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Undergrad What is the maximum size of a Quantum Dot?
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Graduate Do all metals have the same Fermi energy level at constant temperature?
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Graduate Where can I find data on electrical conductivity?
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Graduate Formal definition of quantum dot
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Graduate Change in Fermi level with gradient of doping concentration
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Undergrad Phase transitions university classes
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Graduate Landau Diamagnetism Explained: Free Electron Gas
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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
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Insights Can We See an Atom? - Comments
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Graduate [Semiconductor] Aluminum doped Silicon, valance band&holes
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Undergrad Photosensitive properties of Molybdenum Disulphide
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Graduate Getting Started with CASTEP: Installing & Configuring for DFT Calculations
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High School Non-equilibrium variation in electron density in a metal
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Undergrad Is it possible to calculate Tsupercon from the unit cell?
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Graduate Counting Radial Nodes between Orbitals with Same l
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Graduate Boundary Conductance in nanomaterials
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Graduate Understanding Markov Chains in Metropolis Monte Carlo Ising Simulation
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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?
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Graduate Flexibility and chemical bonding
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Undergrad Can Someone Explain the Derivation of This Pink Equation?
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Undergrad What k states are occupied in a band
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Undergrad The Shrödinger Equation & Hydrogen Molecule Bonding
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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?
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Graduate Can a molecular dynamics simulation enter a limit cycle?
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Undergrad Fermi distribution interpretation
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Undergrad Schroedinger equation for metal / semiconductor
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Undergrad Location of donor atom electrons in N-type Silicon
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Graduate Dipole moment at the sub atomic level
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Undergrad Help Understanding Electron Spin Resonance
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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?
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Graduate How Do Electric and Magnetic Fields Influence Atomic Orbital Shapes?
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Graduate Berry phase and gauge dependence
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Undergrad Phonon energy in absorption of indirect band gap
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Graduate Scherrer Formula and interpreting values
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Undergrad About creating standing wave with laser
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Undergrad How Is the Energy of the Conduction Band Determined in N-Doped Germanium?
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Undergrad How does a Point Force Affect a Piezoelectric?
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Undergrad Quarks in a Mole: Hydrogen, Plutonium & the Periodic Chart
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Graduate What is the book mentioned in this webpage about band bending?
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High School Do atoms give off radiation that determines the colour?
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Graduate What is the most complex structure you can simulate at home?
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Undergrad Inverse of Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution and Planck's Law?
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High School Are Energy Bands a Result of Superposition or Entanglement of Electrons?
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