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Graduate PDH locking signal has noise and oscillations instead of smooth curve

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Undergrad Optical Tweezer Laser Focus/Alignment Troubleshooting

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Graduate Muonic hydrogen dissociation energy and cross-section

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Undergrad Experiment on the variation of weight with temperature

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High School How Fast Do Different Atoms Vibrate?

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Graduate Information for nitrogen spectra lines

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Undergrad Understanding Ewald's sphere in the context of X-Ray diffraction

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Undergrad Why diode with larger band gap has larger onset potential?

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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 vs Monkhorst-Pack in VASP calculations

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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?

  • Jason Ko
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Graduate Deriving the perturbative expansion from Hubbard to Heisenberg

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Undergrad Why does radiationless de-excitation occur at excited levels but not ground state?

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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 Zero bias dark current in photodetectors without external voltage

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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 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 Spin-dependent parity violation as background in EDM measurements

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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

  • Philip Koeck
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Undergrad Power functional theory (PFT) vs traditional Dynamic DFT

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Graduate Broad linewidth continuous wave laser

  • BillKet
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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 Difference between differential and multiple differential cross sections

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Graduate Bow-tie cavity: weak reflection dip with strong transmission signal

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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

  • Malamala
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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?

  • BillKet
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Graduate Phonon Density of States (PDOS) at Gamma Point

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Graduate Population transfer in 2-level system with avoided crossing

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Graduate Learning about other experimental areas of physics

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