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Undergrad How can the radiation of gases be detected?
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Graduate Using Reciprocal to Determine Miller Indices
- Chillguy
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Graduate What are the latest metallic superconductors discovered in the past decade?
- ralden
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Graduate A question on weight function from Ashcroft and Mermin book
- mkbh_10
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Graduate Bulk Modulus and its derivative in a fcc lattice
- Hermes Chirino
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Graduate Why some bands lack gaps at BZ boundaries in 2D lattice with delta functions
- emily1986
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Undergrad What does it mean for energy absorbed and released for atom?
- shangriphysics
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Have you read any other books about crystallography?
- Anastasiya
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Graduate Coupling to an electric field in a tight binding model
- Qturtle
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Undergrad What Are the Best Physics Books on Instrumental Spectroscopy?
- chikou24i
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Undergrad Spectrum of singly ionised helium
- gianeshwar
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Graduate How's diffraction pattern modied by phonon perturbation?
- leehoom
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Graduate Derivation of width of depletion layer in the pn-junction
- tcsv018
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Graduate What distinguishes the 32 crystallographic point groups?
- tirrel
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High School Why do electrons revolve around the nucleus?
- hetanshu
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Graduate Suscept. of a Diamagnet (eqn): what are these variables?
- bhimberg
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Graduate Lattice wave dispersion relation
- Nikitin
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Undergrad What Does Bilinear Response Mean in Mathematical Terms?
- hokhani
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Graduate Why is Chromium Described as an Acceptor in TiO2?
- citw
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Graduate Brittleness and material behaviours
- Nanako
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Graduate Fermi energy in metals approximately doubling
- AIHUNTER
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Graduate How to analyze band structure and the density of states?
- DemoniWaari
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Graduate How Do Electron Energy Levels Form in Liquids Like H2O?
- Edward Wij
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Graduate Why is graphene placed in a cryostat in research?
- fisher468
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High School Superconductor science fair project?
- CookieSalesman
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Graduate Spin-Charge separation seem to have been experimented
- microsansfil
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Graduate Is there any explanation of Josephson effect based on Schrodinger equation?
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Graduate What can be found in the MT curves of superconductors?
- Andy Huang
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Graduate Can cold fusion be ruled out by theory?
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Graduate Broadening of emission peak - "red/blue spike"
- AlexVM
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Graduate Difference between Hubbard and tJ model
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Graduate What does a magnetic moment of an atom mean?
- schrodingerscat11
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Graduate How can two atomic orbitals with the same n value be orthogonal?
- fsci
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Graduate What is the role of silicon oxide in graphene visibility experiments?
- Dele
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Graduate Tight binding s-orbital for 2D binary compound
- Braggplane
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Graduate Propelling force of Atomic Blast?
- Christina2015
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Graduate Problem with Curie's temperature
- ShayanJ
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Undergrad How do vibrations in a solution affect other particles?
- Mendelevskij
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Graduate Bismuth Telluride Bandstructure
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Graduate What is the momentum of a hole in a semiconductor?
- csmallw
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Graduate DMRG. Density matrix renormalization group theory
- LagrangeEuler
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Graduate Band structures with non-primitive cells
- erst
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Graduate Questions/problems for Solid State Physics I
- Goodver
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Graduate <U|V> overlap integral of two many-electron determinant wave functions
- limorsj
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Graduate Significance of band gap in k-space
- NaOH
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Graduate Meaning of total ground state energy in periodic DFT calculations
- Derivator
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Graduate Depletion region in n-type ohmic contact
- PF123
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Graduate Band bending versus band sloping
- yehokhenan
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Graduate Why do quasi-particles appear at multiple scales in strongly interacting systems?
- Couchyam
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Graduate Interpret Wyckoff Positions: Crystal Class Coordinates
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Graduate Measure the out-of-plane k of suspended thin film
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Graduate What is a point group in a crystal?
- tirrel
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Graduate Energy bands in plastic materials
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Graduate Formula for the vibration rate of an atom?
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Undergrad Where to find lattice constants of transition metals
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Graduate Paschen notation in atomic spectroscopy
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Graduate Calculating percentage of O2 molecules excited by a pulsed laser
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Graduate Selection Rules and Light with Orbital Angular Momentum
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Graduate Autocorrelation function MC simulation
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Undergrad Purpose of substrate in semiconductor lasers
- Goodver
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Undergrad What are Transverse/longitudinal effects in lasers?
- Goodver
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Graduate Can we explain shielding effect using electric field ?
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Graduate What will higher resolution microscopes see?
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High School N-P-N Transistor in Saturation Mode
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Graduate Metal insulator transition and percolation
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Graduate Relative permittivity of a semiconductor material
- r.sahebi
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Undergrad How to calculate solar cell efficiency with data in dark?
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Graduate Why does electrical current require energy bands rather than discrete levels?
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Graduate Are Transfer and Scattering Matrices Useful Without Knowledge of H?
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Graduate Choosing appropriate length scale in condensed matter
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Graduate Crystal structures of violet phosphorus and red phosphorus
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Undergrad Metal Superconductors and Negative Temperature
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Graduate Why is phonon momentum called quasimomentum?
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Undergrad Can you estimate thin film thickness from transmittance and reflectance data?
- Ahmed Khodiri
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Looking for Russian physics paper by Ovanov et al. (1973)
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Undergrad Are Triple Points and Critical Points Theoretical or Observable in Real Life?
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Graduate Why does the velocity of 2D plasmon diverge at small q?
- hiyok
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High School What is the cause of an atom's number of protons
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Graduate Why is the DOS from Wang-Landau's algoritm non-flat?
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High School Strange Miller Index Notation [00.1]
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Graduate Calculating Potential Energy of Iron Slab in Ferro/Anti-Ferro Magnetic States
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Undergrad Is it possible to make a semiconductor at home?
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Graduate What is a conductive material which contains extra "holes"?
- radaballer
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High School Every known element has a unique atom?
- Niaboc67
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Undergrad How can powder resistivity be measured with 4-point probe?
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Undergrad Should diatomic gas be regarded as ideal gas?
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Undergrad How to tell if its a metal or a semiconductor
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Undergrad How should doped silicon wafers be handled?
- radaballer
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Graduate Order parameter S(T) for liquid crystals vs temperature
- skrat
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Graduate Why is CNT considered a 1D structure despite having movement in two dimensions?
- Halaaku
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Graduate Why do rare gases have higher binding energy for electrons?
- PhysicsKin
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Undergrad Do natural diamonds form from carbon-vapour or liquid-carbon
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High School How do atoms store binary data in SSDs?
- AdityaDev
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Undergrad What is the Mass of Ionized Hydrogen in Stars and How Does it Affect Pressure?
- Trebor0808
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Graduate How Does Conductivity Increase in N-Type Semiconductors?
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Graduate Hydrogen - Halpha cross section
- Raezeman
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Graduate Why does S·L have non-zero matrix elements if |nlm_l sm_s⟩ isn't an eigenstate?
- PhysicsKin
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Graduate Heat Capacity of Nanoparticles - Experimental Determination
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Graduate Lattice constant from first principles
- Demystifier
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Graduate Phonon contribution to specific heat of solids
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