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Undergrad On the necessary conditions to form the hydrogen molecule
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Graduate Mode matching to an optical cavity
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Graduate DC Power supply for Optogalvanic Yb hollow cathode lamp
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Graduate Pairing of electrons in superconductors
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Graduate How to calculate the site energy corresponding to monomer with Gaussview 6?
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Graduate How does DFT handle degenerate eigenvectors?
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Undergrad Brownian motion and the resultant of forces
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Graduate How can I distinguish degeneracy from band structure?
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Graduate What is the correct form of the Berry curvature formula?
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Undergrad Effective Hamiltonian to Rotational Term Values
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Graduate ABCD matrix formalism for real laser
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Graduate Calculating the interaction potential between 2 molecules
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Undergrad Superconductivity energy saved v Cooling/Heating energy loss
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Undergrad Praseodymium, other Elements, and their Magnetic Properties vs. radioactivity
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High School Is the Higgs Boson the Only Source of Mass?
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Undergrad Atomic Structure: Why Does Energy Decrease with Orbit Number?
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Graduate How does graphene Fermi velocity v_F link to the envelope propagation?
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Graduate Thermal Properties of the Free Electron Gas: Fermi-Dirac Distribution
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High School Atom absorbing a photon and emitting a photon afterwards
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Undergrad Issues in understanding screening effects in the Jellium model
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Undergrad Uniform Translation of a Lattice
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Undergrad Colloid complex refractive index from UV-vis spec
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Graduate The relation between ferromagnets, Phi4 and non-linear sigma model
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High School Why is my small Bi-2223 superconductor not levitating or locking above magnets?
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Undergrad Trying to understand the inner workings of a solar cell
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Graduate Anisotropy of the effective masses in semiconductors
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Graduate ##\Lambda##-enhanced gray molasses cooling
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Undergrad Two-body correlation function computation
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Graduate Yes, there is a typo. The correct electronic configuration for Yb+ is 4f146s.
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Graduate Derivation of Generalized Khon-Sham Scheme
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Undergrad Why do GaN based LEDs continue to function despite a high number of defects?
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Undergrad Conservation of linear momentum in RH relations
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Undergrad Questions Regarding Primitive Unit Cell
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Undergrad Microscope with which atoms can be seen
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Graduate K-point mesh and Monkhorst-Pack
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Graduate Magnetic exchange interaction by first principle (Blume-Capel model)
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Graduate Decay of supercurrents connected to non-superconducting zones?
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Graduate Symmetry breaking in the AdS small/large black hole phase transition
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Undergrad Melting point of graphite and diamond?
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Graduate Carrier relaxation within a quantum well
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Undergrad AC Stark shift in a 3 level system
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Undergrad Why do only low-pressure gases emit a line spectrum?
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Graduate Deriving the perturbative expansion from Hubbard to Heisenberg
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Undergrad Question about Radiationless De-Excitation
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Graduate Monte Carlo Wang-Landau_antiferromagnetic perovskite
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Undergrad The dispersion interaction and Casimir effect
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High School Can anyone explain the zero bias dark current observations in this paper?
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Graduate SiC Vertical MOSFET channel length modulation
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Graduate Investigating the dielectric constant of a pure polar liquid
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Undergrad How to get plot (optical gain of GaAs)?
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High School New Theory Explaining Why Certain Alloys don't change size when heated
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Undergrad A question on elasticity from Kittel's Solid State Physics book
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High School Why don't electrons leave a metal surface?
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Graduate How do I calculate the rate constant units for excitation by electron impact?
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Undergrad Pair interaction potential with more than one mininum?
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Graduate Convert .cif to quantum espresso input
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Undergrad Absorption cross section of light in air
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Undergrad What Determines the Use of Normal vs Angular Frequency in Quantum Transitions?
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Undergrad Injection radius in a Penning trap
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Graduate Technical question about AMO experiment in a paper
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Undergrad Why is K an anti-unitary operator in (26)?
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Undergrad Does heating weaken the strong nuclear/electromagnetic forces
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High School Is it possible to ionise a solid, so that it has no electrons left?
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Graduate Question about power broadening
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Graduate Characterizing Electron Beam w/ CMOS-Camera or Faraday Cup
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Undergrad Power functional theory (PFT) vs traditional Dynamic DFT
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Graduate Broad linewidth continuous wave laser
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Graduate From two-body Green's function to one-body in perturbation theory
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Graduate Spectrum analyzer for cavity locking
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Undergrad Colorless Compounds and electromagnetic radiation
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Undergrad Interpretation of temperature in liquids/solids
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Undergrad Are All Periodic Lattice Arrangements Bravais Lattices?
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Undergrad Covalent Bonds -- Which type of force?
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Graduate Differential cross section, double differential cross section, triple...
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Graduate Confused about reflected signal in a bow-tie optical cavity
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Graduate LCAO graphene orbitals wave functions
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Undergrad How is Lorenz-Lorentz relationship possible?
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Undergrad Laser linewidth in a STIRAP process
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Undergrad The missing factor of 2π in reciprocal lattice calculations
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Graduate Looking for a paper describing the Raman effect
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Graduate Two level system in a thermal noise electric field
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Graduate Can we have molecular transitions that change multiplicity?
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Graduate What is the meaning of the (A x B) when talking about CDWs?
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Graduate Determination of electron temperature in an ion source
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Graduate Can I calculate partial density of states using tight binding?
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Graduate Bipolar transport in a simple illuminated semiconductor bar
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High School What does this distance of an atom mean?
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Graduate Empirical tight-binding sp3s* band structure of semiconductors
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Graduate How can I use a fiber EOM to lock a laser with a large input power?
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Graduate Phonon Density of States (PDOS) at Gamma Point
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Graduate Confused about population transfer
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Graduate Learning about other experimental areas of physics
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Graduate Nuclear moments in molecular spectroscopy
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Graduate Extracting the uncertainty on a measured atomic transition
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Undergrad Understanding Diffraction Condition in Kittle's Intro to Solid State Physics
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Undergrad Use the Ewald sphere to calculate h,k,l?
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Undergrad Use the Ewald sphere to calculate h,k,l?
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High School What causes the drop of latent heat at lower temperatures in liquid helium?
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Graduate Energy levels shifts in a time-varying electric field
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High School Atomic Energy Levels: Simplified Explanations for the Curious
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