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Graduate Energy levels at semiconductor/liquid electrolyte interface
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Graduate Identical atoms in the Dicke model
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Undergrad Why is Bohr's model of an atom limited to explaining only the hydrogen spectrum?
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Graduate Calculating microscopic permittivity
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Graduate NPT monte carlo simulation pressure calculation
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Graduate Converting an indirect gap material to direct one
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Graduate Spectroscopy technique for detecting water saturation front in polymer
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Graduate Fermi energy and Fermi momentum from first principles
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Graduate K vector in first brillouin zone
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Undergrad How is Wavenumber related to visible lines in the Hydrogen spectrum?
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Graduate Molecular orbitals of three or more atoms
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Undergrad Bohr's atomic model and Bohr and Rydberg equations
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Graduate How Do Pseudocapacitors Utilize Fast Faradaic Reactions for High Capacitance?
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Graduate Liquid - polymer equilibrium "contact" distance
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Graduate Is is possible to find unoccupied states below fermi energy?
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Graduate Photon Upconversion: Neodymium YAG Laser & 478nm Wavelength
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Graduate Difference in phase convention for Wigner d-function
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Graduate What is the dielectric function of PTFE (Teflon)?
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Graduate Derjaguin Formula for Contact Angle Prediction | Explained and Illustrated
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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
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Graduate A question on superconductivity
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Graduate Graphene: Physics, Breakthroughs, Impact on the World
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Undergrad Band Offset Explained: What is Band Offset?
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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?
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Undergrad Solid Helium: Why No Images? | Feynman Lectures Vol.1
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Undergrad Find the equilibrium separation between two materials
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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.
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Graduate Electrostatic attraction between an electron and a hole
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Graduate How does this make mercury a liquid at STP?
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Undergrad Working of Photovoltaic Device (Solar Cell)
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Graduate How electrons are excited in direct transitions?
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Graduate Can subatomic particles be PROVED to exist?
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Graduate Pressure-Induced Solidification: Materials That Defy Conventional Phase Changes
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High School Please, help with the experimental setup
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Undergrad Stainless steel crystal structure
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Graduate Zero field cooled / field cooled susceptibilities
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Undergrad Understand PN Junction Diode: Diffusion & Electrons
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Graduate How to understand the negative two-photon transition strength
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Graduate Can Anyone Share an Ethanol Dielectric Function with Frequency Dependence?
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Graduate How 4 atoms with the positions (0,0,0), (0,0,a), (0,a,0), and (a,0,0)?
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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 Half-Filled Band: Explaining Zero Chemical Potential
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Graduate Surface photovoltage, Space charge and Point charges
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Undergrad Understanding Newton's 2nd Law & Drude Assumption for Conductivity
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Graduate Data for metal oxides on complex refractive index in the infrared
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Undergrad Spectroscopy: clarification about doppler shift
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Graduate Understanding the Boltzmann Equation Derivation in Electric and Magnetic Fields
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Graduate What Are the Key Techniques for Measuring Heat Capacity at Low Temperatures?
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Graduate Calculating the Lattice Mismatch of GaN/Sapphire
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Undergrad Why is raman effect weaker than Rayleigh
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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
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Graduate Mimetite: P63/m Space Group Explained
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Graduate Superconductivity and magnetism
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Undergrad What Determines the Fermi Energy in Solids?
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Graduate North American Superconductor Superhighway: Concept and Propulsion Methods
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Undergrad Molecular Orbital Theory Question about bonding/antibonding orbitals
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Graduate Two Fourier transforms and the calculation of Effective Hamiltonian.
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Graduate Quastion about K-points and energy cutoff
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Graduate Interpretation to ARPES measured Fermi surface
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Graduate Why is Orthogonal Plane Wave (OPW) Complete?
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Graduate Near field of a diffraction grating?
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Graduate Steady state of diffusion current in semiconductors
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Graduate How to build different structures using programming
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Graduate The Kubo Formula of Hall Conductivity
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Graduate Symmetry operation in reciprocal space
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Graduate Some basic problems with energy band
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Graduate Understanding Critical Exponents and Their Application in Systems
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Graduate What is the internal and external quantum numbers of a atom
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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 React Ion of Gases: Low Energy Anion/Cation & Grounded Metal Surface
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Graduate Is the analytic properties of Fermionic self energy well known?
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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?
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Undergrad Understanding Fermi Level in Silicon: Valence and Conduction Bands Explained
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Graduate What is the Fermi energy of (undoped) graphene?
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Graduate What is the difference in mechanisms in which IB1 and IB2 are formed?
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Graduate Derivation of 1st london equation.
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Graduate Hole current and Recombination
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Undergrad Triboelectric Effect: Atoms Affinity & Electron Attraction
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Graduate Lattice systems and group symmetries
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Graduate Weak Form of the Effective Mass Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate How can free of self-interaction error easily be concluded in DFT?
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Graduate How Does a Magnetic Field Affect Thermal Transport in Graphene?
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Graduate Understanding Inversion Symmetry and Space Symmetry Breaking
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Graduate Question about crystallography
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Graduate Born-Bethe approximation for cross section
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Graduate Absorption spectra of T = 0K semiconductor?
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Graduate Phase Diagram of BiMnO3: High Pressure Necessary?
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