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Ionize hydrogen gas with 405 nm laser?
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Calculation of alpha particles from 226-Ra decay
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Finite difference Schrodinger equation
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Can Atom Sizes Be Manipulated?
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Does the Kubo Formula Calculate Conductivity for Antennas or Photodetectors?
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How Does Dielectric Confinement Affect Semiconductor Properties?
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Unit conversion - stress-wave propagation speed
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Overpowering my laser makes it dimmer, why?
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Momentum in two different k-points
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Meaning of "quasi-two-dimensional structure" of cuperates
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Holes as positive charge carriers in semiconductors
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Light and Heat Generation of Elements
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Underdoped Cuprates: Meaning & Explanation
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Self-energy for two correlators
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Bravais lattices in 2 dimensions (and 3 dimensions)
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How Does Continuous Lasing Action Work in Solid State Lasers Like Nd:YAG?
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What happens if an atom's electron configuration remains unstable?
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Graphene Hamiltonian: Eq.(1) in PRB 81, 205444
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Continuity vacuum level at interface
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Calculation of absorption coefficients of gases at moderate temperatures
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What is the Fermi level in semiconductors?
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Phonons and classical non-locality?
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Phonon frequency spectrum distribution
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Ferromagnetic Heisenberg Model
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Electron affinity, work function, band gap
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Magnetic Monopoles: Investigating Spin-Ice Evidence
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Is it possible to shift the fermi level?
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Why is the electric field zero outside of depletion region?
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Exploring the Role of Z2 Invariant and Edge States in Topological Insulators
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Can a silver atom be physisorbed to its surface?
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Does n type doping decrease or increase the bandgap?
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Do dimensions of a piezoelectric material affect voltage?
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How are solids held together and what determines their stability and structure?
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Raman Spectra: Stokes vs Anti-Stokes - Get Answers Here!
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How is the frequency unchanged in elastic wave scattering with a crystal?
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Band decomposed charge density
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Material that changes transparency when lased from side?
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What is the "unoccupied band" referring to in this paper?
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Uncrossing of Fermi level by d-electrons of Cu, Ag, Au
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Calculating Atom Coordinates in Silicene: What Information is Needed?
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Constitutive behavior of elasto-plastic vs visco-elastic?
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Building 6H-SiC, does this look right?
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Undergrad Why energy band diagram is flat?
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Phonons & Collective Oscillations: Locality Experiments
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Conduction and valence bands in semiconductors
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Examples of First-Order *Electronic* Phase Transitions?
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Calculating absorption cross sections
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Neutral and charged exitons (trions)
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Dielectric constant in few-layer and in bulk materials
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Why are core electrons removed from atoms on X-ray irradiation in XPS?
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What theories in solid state should every physicist know?
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Reciprocal of the reciprocal lattice is the original lattice
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Optical Pumping & Laser Wavelengths
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Find Optic Laser Material That Responds to Perpendicular & Parallel Light
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Solid electron wavefunction localization vs delocalization
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Diffusion, concentration profile
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How to write electron hole Hamiltonian into quasi-boson?
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How to find reciprocal lattice vectors
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Are Di-Atomic Molecules spherical?
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Gibbs and Helmholtz energies of a superconductor
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Help: What is Band-Edge and Near-Band-Edge Emission?
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What Causes the Forbidden Gap in Semiconductors?
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Topological phase and spontaneous symmetry breaking coexist?
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Quantum Cascade Lasers: Intersubband Transitions
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How can I solve the problem with Fourier transforms in critical phenomena?
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Emergent Qualities Mapped to Atomic Properties
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Ionization and electron affinity
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How "plastic" do you think heated rocks become?
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Raman Shifts of Metals for PhD Students
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Optical Stimulated Luminescence
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A question about strain in graphene
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Understanding the Peierls-Nabarro Barrier: Explanation and References
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Density of States of a metal at Fermi level
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Thermionics disobeying laws of thermodynamics
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What is a hardening function? What does it represent?
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Thermal motion of graphite atoms
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Question about three states of matter
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Does a Completed Electron Orbital Differ?
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Current and Quantum Hall Effect
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A question about band structure silicene
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Problem with Fourier bessel transform of Yukawa potential
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Average energy vs Energy of average
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What are Valley Degrees of Freedom in Semiconductor Bands?
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Lyapunov exponent -- Numerical calculations
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Electron Configuration of Filled Valence Electron Orbitals
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Does the concept of hole current hold up in metals?
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Does DOS depend on Temperature?
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Phonon Dispersion Relation: Reflection of Photons Explained
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How Do Landau Levels Function in Solid State Band Theory?
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What distinguishes a polaron from an electron?
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Definition question about atomic fluorescence
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Origin of number of bounds in ising model
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A question about slater-koster approximation
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Explaining the Absence of Band Gaps in Superconductors
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Ni-60 >>> Fe-56 + a (why not possible?)
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Question about spectral emission measurements of hydrogen
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A question about band structure silicene by tight binding
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Confused with the formation of Cooper pairs
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Dielectric function with band theory
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The difference between order parameter and state parameter?
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