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Graduate Criteria for boson and Bose Einstein Condensate

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Graduate Electron or Hole: Which Has the Greater Effective Mass?

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Graduate Why is electron effective mass used in Fermi gas calculations?

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Graduate Why does the mass attenuation coefficient have a negative gradient?

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Graduate Does H = XX+YY spontaneously break symmetry in 1D?

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Graduate Diffraction of red LED light picture with spots

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Graduate Interpreting Electron Density Definition

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Graduate Neutron scattering and phonon dispersion in a 1-D monoatomic chain

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Graduate Proving direct band gap property of a semiconductor

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Graduate The limiting sphere in crystallography

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Undergrad How Can MATLAB Simulate Semiconductor vs. Insulator Band Theory?

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Undergrad Materials and x-ray diffraction

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Graduate Orthogonality of Wannier functions

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Graduate Haldane Model: Does edge current exist for a filled band?

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Graduate Why use mercury to verify isotope effect in superconducting?

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Undergrad Is there an easy review about topological insulator?

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Graduate Second order correlation function for non ideal laser

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Graduate How to calculate complex permittivity from complex conductivity

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Graduate Photoelectron-induced current in reverse-biased silicon p-n diode

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Graduate Do metals absorb radiation below the plasma frequency?

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Graduate How do Kohn-Sham eigenvalues give band structures in DFT?

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Undergrad Seebeck Effect: Duration of Voltage Production?

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Graduate Electronic Structure of Ribbons

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Undergrad Generate electrical energy from vibrating transformers

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Graduate Understanding C=(2*C5): Elements and Meaning

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Graduate If n is infinity, wavelength is equal to what?

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Undergrad Mechnical properties of a materials

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Graduate How can I calculate binodal line T-V with simulation result?

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Undergrad What Are the Individual Densities of Deuterium (D2) and Tritium (T2) Gases?

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Graduate Correlation length from intensity profile

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Undergrad Where can I buy a small superconductor online?

  • Trevor Stanfill
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Graduate Refractive index for magnetic material

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Undergrad Need to find dense liquid at room temperature

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Undergrad Hydrogen, Deuterium, and Tritium Ionization Spectra

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Graduate How choose k-points for 5*5*4 slab for band gap calculations

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Graduate Ionization & photoelectrons in x-ray solid state detectors

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Graduate Relation between electronic band structure and Fermi energy

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Undergrad Does the magnetic field decrease in a Zeeman slower as atoms slow down?

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Undergrad Van der Pauw measurment- source unit

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Graduate What is the Quantization Scheme in Frohlich's Electron-Phonon Interaction Paper?

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Undergrad Balmer's Equation: Simpler Calculation of Hydrogen Wavelengths

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Graduate What is the statistical weight factor (in Pathria)?

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Graduate Can someone explain peierls distortion/transition to me?

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Undergrad What determines if a reaction is exotermic or endotermic?

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Undergrad Optical microscopy image analysis

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Graduate Trying to verify my program's output

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Graduate How Can the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation Model BECs at Finite Temperatures?

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Undergrad Why does atomic size decrease across a period if protons and electrons increase equally?

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Graduate Singularity of atomic particle characteristics.

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Graduate Can one sum the polarizability of atoms?

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Undergrad Deep sea changing properties of steel/iron?

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Graduate What happens to neutrons in plasma state?

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Graduate How do you cool superfluid 3He to 2.5 mK?

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Graduate What is the relationship between C1h and C1v point groups in crystallography?

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Graduate What do the atomic orbitals of Helium look like?

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Graduate Visualising a system with graphene

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Undergrad Calculating the Surface area of a molecule

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Graduate What is an approximate amplitude of a phonon?

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Graduate Temperature dependence of relaxation time T1 vs T2

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Undergrad Understanding First Ionization Energy for Diatomic Gases

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Undergrad Do electrons in partially filled valence bands contribute to current?

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Graduate Is a Bloch wave periodic in reciprocal space?

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Graduate Building a Kroger-Vink diagram for Al2O3 doped with MgO

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Undergrad XRD peak position near 32 degree

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Undergrad What is an oscillating molecular dipole defined as?

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Graduate How does band structure lead to metals/insulators?

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Graduate Comparison Between Two Results

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Graduate Superconductivity and zero resistance

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Graduate What does the structure factor tell us about scattering directions?

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Graduate Studying vibration modes of ice X

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Graduate Are atoms truly unlimited sources of energy?

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Graduate Is ionization potential a function of internuclear distance?

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Graduate Is Einstein's relation D = ukT always true?

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Graduate Advancements in Kilogram Measurement through Silicon and Watt Balance Technology

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Graduate Electron chirality, helicity and CP symmetry

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Graduate Question: how to calculate the energy of crystal

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Undergrad Oxides in semiconductor technology.

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Graduate Why do microstates have different probabilities in statistical ensembles?

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Graduate Non-uniqueness of the k-vector in Bloch state

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Graduate What determines the energy levels in the conduction band of solids?

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Graduate Are \(\Delta n = 0\) Transitions Allowed in Hydrogen Atom Selection Rules?

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Graduate Why do the energy levels in electronic band structures start at negative values?

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Graduate Why do s orbital potentials have more nodes as principal quantum number increases?

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Graduate Find Sheer stress that produced slip

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Graduate What Causes the Differences in Forbidden Band Gaps Between Electrons in Metals?

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Graduate Simple programs for alpha particle and heavy ion scattering analysis

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Graduate Josephson Effect Class Presentation

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Graduate Atom optics review articles from the 1990s onward

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Graduate Instability of a 1D material due to Fermi surface nesting

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Graduate Effective Mass of Electron in Polyethylene

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Graduate Laser ionization of hydrogen and deuterium gas

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Graduate Can Water Exist in Bose-Einstein Condensate Form?

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Graduate How are the direction of primitive vectors determined in BCC crystal structures?

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Graduate What is a phase transition in the context of an ising glass?

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Graduate GAMESS computing and quantum chemistry

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Graduate Critical system in condensed matter physics

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Graduate LIBS elemental analysis of human nails with metal sample holder contamination

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Graduate Topological Insulator: A Zero-Gap Material With SOC?

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Undergrad Simulation Inhomogeneous Compound Semiconductor Thin Films

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Graduate What does surface decoration mean in materials science?

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