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Graduate calculating direction cosines for silicene band structure

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Graduate Problem with Fourier bessel transform of Yukawa potential

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Graduate Average energy vs Energy of average

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Graduate What are Valley Degrees of Freedom in Semiconductor Bands?

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Graduate Lyapunov exponent -- Numerical calculations

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Graduate How is the b term used in the van der Waals equation?

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Undergrad Electron Configuration of Filled Valence Electron Orbitals

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Undergrad Does the concept of hole current hold up in metals?

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Graduate Does DOS depend on Temperature?

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Graduate Why are 90% of photons reflected at optical phonon frequencies?

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Graduate How Do Landau Levels Function in Solid State Band Theory?

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Graduate What distinguishes a polaron from an electron?

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Graduate Origin of number of bounds in ising model

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Graduate A question about slater-koster approximation

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Graduate Why do superconductors have no band gap if electrons are fermions?

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Graduate Ni-60 >>> Fe-56 + a (why not possible?)

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Graduate Pressure ranges for hydrogen emission spectroscopy of H and H2

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Graduate Plotting band structure of silicene along K→Γ→M→K using tight binding

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Graduate How can Cooper pair electrons have opposite momenta yet move together?

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Graduate Dielectric function with band theory

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Graduate The difference between order parameter and state parameter?

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Graduate Why does diffraction occur from planes parallel to the incident beam?

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Graduate What is the difference between monoclinic C and triclinic P lattices?

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Undergrad Can electricity in a superconductor make a magnetic field?

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Graduate Thomas-Fermi Model: Comparison with Atomic Experiments

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Graduate Effect of TRS potential on Topological insulator (QSH)

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Graduate Electron Configuration from Term Symbols in Lanthanides

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Graduate Math for identifying bosonic atoms

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Graduate Why do charge density waves occur in quasi-1D metals?

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Graduate Laser output below, just above and way above threshold?

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Graduate Thermionic emission current density derivation

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Graduate Radiative exchange in an ultrafine dust

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Graduate Schottky junction solar cells

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Graduate Dipole Polarizabilities of Diatomic Molecules

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Graduate Second quantisation formula (electron-phonon coupling)

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Smart materials engineering

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Undergrad Why Isn't a Lone Proton Considered a Magnetic Monopole?

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Graduate Simple atomic unit conversion check

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Undergrad Calculate Si cohesive energy using VASP

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Graduate Electronic Transition of Atoms

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Graduate Why is the volume of FCC and BCC different in reciprocal space?

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Graduate Why do holes not contribute to conduction in metals?

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Graduate Why ballistic conduction differs from superconductivity

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Graduate Green's function and density of states

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Graduate Number of phonon modes possible

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Graduate Optical phonons in fcc-lattice

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Graduate Periodic Boundary Conditions proof

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Graduate IR Spectoscopy - Photon Energies

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Graduate Effective mass, Taylor's theorem

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Graduate Dispersion relation for diatomic linear chain.

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Graduate Why is there reflection in 222 plane of Silicon?

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Undergrad Why does the Hall coefficient change sign between copper and zinc?

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Graduate Electron-hole gas density in different materials

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Graduate Interaction mechanisms of photons and electrons with matter

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Graduate Atoms as spheres in packing fraction of crystal lattice

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Graduate How Do Quantum Numbers Relate to Electron Count in Quantum Dots?

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Graduate Why does the Debye model approximate the dispersion relation as linear?

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Graduate Non-Joulian Magnets: Why Do They Expand?

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Graduate What is the Atomic Mass of Deuterium According to Parthey's Measurements?

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Graduate What is the difference between a vacancy and a defect in a solid solution?

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Graduate Wave packet description of electrons in solid state physics

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Graduate Where does band index come from in block wave functions?

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Undergrad Intrinsic Carrier Concentration for Carbon

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Graduate Discontinuous at horizontal axis, U and K points, in energy

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Undergrad Length generated by all atoms contained in 1 gram of iron

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Graduate What is the role of degeneracies in the condition for optical gain?

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Undergrad Electrostatic Force Between Proton and Neutron?

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Graduate Absorption in Indirect Bandgaps

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Graduate High and low energy photon absorption

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Graduate Wide bandgap semiconductor -- why higher temperature tolerance?

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Undergrad Why is the conversion from eV to Kelvin so high?

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Undergrad Lattice points and lattice basis

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Graduate How does measurement time affect laser linewidth measurements?

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Undergrad Questions about atoms: shells, attraction, elements

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Graduate Why does corrected Maxwell Boltzmann have decimals?

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Graduate Holstein Primakoff representation

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Graduate YBCO Phonon Frequency: Hole Doping .2, 75-70°K @ 70°K

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Graduate How can I derive the path integral using the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula?

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Graduate Why are cubic crystals necessarily rotationally invariant dielectrics?

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Graduate List of Photon-Matter Interactions

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Graduate Quantum Hall Effect resistivity

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Graduate Definition of open boundary conditions

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Graduate Is it possible to get just one photon from just one atom?

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Graduate Is it possible to label the Debye temperature on a graph of

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Graduate Building a Non-Ideal HCP Lattice in MD Simulation

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Undergrad Can something denser and harder than osmium exist?

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Graduate Allowed/Forbidden Transition Dipole Moments

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Graduate Transition dipole -- Line shape function

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Graduate How can an ultrashort pulse be detected?

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Graduate Trying to relate nuclear physics to solid state (fermi gas)

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Graduate Change of sign on Green's functions (Maths problem)

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Graduate Why Does Feynman Use a Single Electron Charge for Dipole Calculations?

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Graduate What does this length represent?

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Graduate Auger electrons vs secondary electrons

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Graduate Magnetic Dipole less than that of the Bohr Magneton

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Graduate Stern-Gerlach experiment with electric field

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Graduate Does the Bragg equation hold for arbitrary diffractions?

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Graduate Complex Geometric Theories and Molecules

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Graduate A question for helium energy transition

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