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Graduate Density equations (light considered as reservioir)

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Graduate Fermi Surface and Orthogonality Catastrophe

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Graduate Spintronic light emitting diode

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Graduate Laser light vs. synchrotron light in ARPES measurements

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Undergrad Why Does Rb87 Decay to Sr87, Not Rb85?

  • mrhagerty
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Undergrad Make Solid State Electrostatic Oscillator?

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Graduate Proof for quantisation of electrons energy around an atom?

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Graduate Hydrogen excitation, ionisation and photon absorption

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Graduate Who is this "Kallen" and what does he represent, anyway?

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Graduate Absorption cross sections of hydrogen ions

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Undergrad Why Do Electrons Determine Atom Volume While Nucleons Account for Mass?

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Graduate Why do electrons and protons have the same amount of charge?

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Graduate Energy levels at semiconductor/liquid electrolyte interface

  • Useful nucleus
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Graduate Identical atoms in the Dicke model

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Undergrad Why can't Bohr's model explain the spectra of atoms other than hydrogen?

  • kay
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Graduate Calculating microscopic permittivity

  • DrDu
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Graduate NPT monte carlo simulation pressure calculation

  • pyscho
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Graduate Converting an indirect gap material to direct one

  • hokhani
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Graduate Spectroscopy technique for detecting water saturation front in polymer

  • paulos
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Graduate Fermi energy and Fermi momentum from first principles

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Graduate K vector in first brillouin zone

  • Sophocles
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Undergrad How is Wavenumber related to visible lines in the Hydrogen spectrum?

  • kay
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Graduate Molecular orbitals of three or more atoms

  • hokhani
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Undergrad Bohr's atomic model and Bohr and Rydberg equations

  • Nick Jackson
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Graduate How Do Pseudocapacitors Utilize Fast Faradaic Reactions for High Capacitance?

  • Stanley514
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Graduate Liquid - polymer equilibrium "contact" distance

  • LouisD
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Graduate Is is possible to find unoccupied states below fermi energy?

  • arierreF
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Graduate Can calcite crystal upconvert 478nm light like it does neodymium YAG?

  • BernieM
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Graduate Difference in phase convention for Wigner d-function

  • chafelix
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Graduate What is the dielectric function of PTFE (Teflon)?

  • LouisD
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Graduate Calculating Lifshitz energy in Derjaguin's contact angle formula

  • LouisD
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Undergrad Reading Hamiltonian (.HSX) files in SIESTA

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Graduate Short circuit current of a Schottky diode solar cell

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Graduate Superconductive energy storage

  • Stanley514
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Graduate A question on superconductivity

  • n00bierthanyou
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Graduate Graphene: Physics, Breakthroughs, Impact on the World

  • okarin314
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Undergrad What is band offset?

  • hokhani
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Undergrad Softness of Transition Metals Au, Ag, and Pd

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Graduate DOS for impurities in a dielectric

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Graduate How Does IBM Manipulate Atoms and What Are the Implications for Data Storage?

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Undergrad Calculating energy change (rydberg?)

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Graduate Why conductors bonds in such way that leaves the valence band not full

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Undergrad What is the significance of crystal momentum?

  • EternusVia
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Undergrad Why are there no images of solid helium?

  • tridianprime
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Undergrad Find the equilibrium separation between two materials

  • TheFerruccio
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Graduate Double Counting Correction in LDA+U: AMF vs. FLL

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Graduate Difficulty understanding "donor" and "acceptor" energy levels.

  • chopper13
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Graduate Electrostatic attraction between an electron and a hole

  • HeavyMetal
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Graduate How does this make mercury a liquid at STP?

  • hmunster
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Undergrad Working of Photovoltaic Device (Solar Cell)

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Graduate How electrons are excited in direct transitions?

  • hokhani
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Graduate Can subatomic particles be PROVED to exist?

  • Edwin McCravy
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Graduate Pressure-Induced Solidification: Materials That Defy Conventional Phase Changes

  • Salvador
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High School How to use a spectrometer to measure atomic spectra

  • Virous
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Undergrad Stainless steel crystal structure

  • tau13
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Graduate Zero field cooled / field cooled susceptibilities

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Undergrad Do all electrons get consumed diffusing in a forward-biased PN junction?

  • M.Kalai vanan
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Graduate How to understand the negative two-photon transition strength

  • sandf
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Graduate Dielectric function of ethanol with frequency dependence

  • LouisD
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Graduate How 4 atoms with the positions (0,0,0), (0,0,a), (0,a,0), and (a,0,0)?

  • masyousaf1
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Undergrad Comparison between metals and semiconductors

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Graduate Pump probe spectroscopy as linear process away from equilibrium

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Graduate Why does a half-filled band have zero chemical potential?

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Graduate Surface photovoltage, Space charge and Point charges

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Undergrad Why does the Drude model give a factor of 1/2 in conductivity?

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Graduate Data for metal oxides on complex refractive index in the infrared

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Undergrad Doppler shift in rubidium absorption spectroscopy with triangular wave scan

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Graduate Understanding the Boltzmann Equation Derivation in Electric and Magnetic Fields

  • aaaa202
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Graduate Heat capacity measurements below 10K

  • kuecken
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Graduate Calculating the Lattice Mismatch of GaN/Sapphire

  • maxxlr8
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Undergrad Why is raman effect weaker than Rayleigh

  • HomerSimps
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Graduate Newest implementation of GW approximation needs analytic continuation?

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Graduate X-ray applications in solid state physics

  • maicael
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Graduate What do P and the subscript 3 mean in the mimetite space group P63/m?

  • ZedCar
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Graduate Superconductivity and magnetism

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Undergrad What Determines the Fermi Energy in Solids?

  • Nayan112
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Graduate North American Superconductor Superhighway: Concept and Propulsion Methods

  • Kyknoc
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Undergrad Does orbital shading represent phase or electron spin?

  • mayer
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Graduate Two Fourier transforms and the calculation of Effective Hamiltonian.

  • Robert_G
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Graduate Quastion about K-points and energy cutoff

  • omaralrawi
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Graduate Interpretation to ARPES measured Fermi surface

  • bsmile
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Graduate Why is Orthogonal Plane Wave (OPW) Complete?

  • AndrewShen
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Graduate Near field of a diffraction grating?

  • pjbeierle
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Graduate Steady state of diffusion current in semiconductors

  • Anupam
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Graduate How to build different structures using programming

  • acharya4689
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Graduate The Kubo Formula of Hall Conductivity

  • cometzir
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Graduate Symmetry operation in reciprocal space

  • bsmile
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Graduate Some basic problems with energy band

  • AndrewShen
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Graduate Understanding Critical Exponents and Their Application in Systems

  • Talker1500
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Graduate What is the internal and external quantum numbers of a atom

  • Robert_G
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High School Base and collector of transistor

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Graduate Where in the world do those elctrons go?

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Graduate Understanding Brillouin Zones - What do they represent physically?

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Graduate Low-energy ions near grounded metal or insulator surfaces

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Graduate Is the analytic properties of Fermionic self energy well known?

  • bsmile
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Graduate Rb saturated spectrum and identification of absorption lines

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Graduate Can one electron decay into an electron plus a phonon?

  • csmallw
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Undergrad Fermi level and band gap of silicon

  • tot
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Graduate What is the Fermi energy of (undoped) graphene?

  • Izzhov
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Graduate What is the difference in mechanisms in which IB1 and IB2 are formed?

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