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Graduate Laser Diode Principles: Stimulated Emission & Voltage
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Graduate Question about Bragg diffraction
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Graduate How Does the Fermi Surface Form a Perfect Square in a 2D Tight Binding Model?
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Graduate How Does Entropy Influence Electron-Hole Recombination Mechanisms?
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Graduate Isothermal Magnetic Susceptibility
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Undergrad What does an 2H- in front of a chemical symbol mean? (i.e. 2H-MoX_2)
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Undergrad Microscopic properties of electrical resistance
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Graduate DOS Formulas: Derivation & Comparison
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Graduate Magnetic properties for In2O3, indium (iii) oxide
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Graduate D-wave superconductivity: Functional forms?
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Graduate Cutting, at the atomic/molecular level
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Graduate How do compound objects maintain rigidity despite atomic vibrations?
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Graduate P-N Junction Depth: Affect on Semiconductor Device Performance
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High School Is an atom a dipole due to its positive and negative charges?
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Graduate Is there a conservation law associated with C4 symmetry?
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Graduate Calculate the mass defect of a molecule without empirical mass
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Graduate Question regarding orbital hybridization in DFT
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Graduate Questions regarding the Fermi level of a metal
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Graduate Understanding Spin-Orbit Coupling in Hamiltonian
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Graduate Why does the anomalous Zeeman effect not show up on some atoms?
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Graduate Bragg and Brillouin diffraction
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Graduate The Equipartion principle for diatomic molecules
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Graduate PN Junction. Silicon vs Germanium
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Graduate Doubts about the electron magnetic moment.
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Graduate What can be seen if taking a snap shot @ 4.21K? Superconductivity
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Undergrad Can graphene work in outer space?
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Graduate Why aren't most insulators transparent just like glass?
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Graduate Trying to understand emission and absorption
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Graduate Atomic Energy States in a Crystal: Einstein's Relation
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High School Suggestions for FTIR Experiment
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Graduate What is the significance of Fractional Occupation Numbers in DFT?
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Graduate Number of modes for a 2d crystal
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Graduate Converting Between K-Space Sum and Integral for Macroscopic Solids"
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High School Atoms in a Solid: Why Their Vicinity Matters
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Graduate How can the electrical conductivity of graphene be measured?
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Graduate What is the significance of dipoles in condensed matter physics?
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Graduate Compressed/conducting Mercury(Hg) atom
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Graduate Microscopic description of glass-light interaction
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Undergrad Improving vacuum system efficiency?
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Graduate How many defects in graphene would kill its conductivity?
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Graduate Can DFT Bridge the Gap Between Theory and Real-World Material Science?
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Graduate Ising model, same interaction with all spins
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Graduate Defining Reference Entropy and Chemical Potential in Different Phases
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High School Repulsion and attraction between atoms
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Graduate Ionization, neutralization, electrical breakdown etc.
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Graduate Form Factor and Neutron Scattering
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Graduate What Makes Helium Behave Like a Superfluid at Zero Kelvin?
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Graduate [FDTD/FORTRAN] problem with tfsf boundary and berenger's pml
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Graduate Tight Binding Hamiltonian and Potential (U)
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Graduate How Do Quantum Theory and Software Model Large Atoms Like Iron?
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Graduate Should I use Quantum ESPRESSO or Material Studio?
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Graduate First-variational and second-variational eigenvectors
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Graduate Why do electrons in SP3 orbitals need opposite spins in molecular bonding?
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Graduate Solution of Dirac Delta DOS Equation
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Graduate How does zirconium-oxide coating reduce work function in SEM tips?
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Graduate Valence Band Mixing: What Is It & What Are References?
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Graduate Is the Maximum Number of Elements Limited to 137 Due to Electron Speed?
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Graduate Crosslink PVA Physically: UV or Sensitizer?
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Graduate Solid State: Diamond lattice and scattering
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Graduate Questions about superconductivity
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Graduate Kitaev's Periodic Table (of Topological Insulators & SCs)
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Graduate Easy Guide to Understanding LAPW Method for Beginners
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Graduate How Can dI/dV Help Determine Fermi Level and Band Gap in Semiconductors?
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Graduate Interatomic potentials for diatomic systems
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Graduate Fermi energy in semiconductors
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Graduate Can I get Bandgap of 3D material with 1D Hamiltonian
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Graduate One dimensional diatomic lattice oscillations
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Undergrad Band spectrum and line spectrum
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Graduate Can Atomic Clocks Measure Time Accurately Underground?
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Undergrad Why don't electron go into the next orbit during stimulated emission?
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Graduate Ising Model for Spins: External Magnetic Field Effect
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Undergrad Why do snowflakes form unique shapes?
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Graduate Are Phase Transitions Caused by Instabilities or Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking?
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Graduate Density Fluctuation: What Is It & How Does Hydrogen Bonding Enhance?
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Graduate How to Model Drude Materials using FDTD
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Graduate Einstein Model vs Debye model.
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Graduate How Does Mean Field Theory Explain Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking?
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Undergrad Layman understanding Atom movement with added energy
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Graduate Bounds on the chemical potential of electrons
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Graduate Atom Energy in Crystals: Gibbs Free Energy
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Graduate Bragg diffraction - How to make sense of it ?
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Undergrad Can Any Molecular Crystal Be Used in Bragg's X-Ray Spectrometer?
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Graduate Heisenberg Hamiltonian for 2 Electron System: Get Relation (1)
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Graduate Spin orbit and double group representations
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Graduate Predicting Crystal Shapes: Wulfs Theorem
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Graduate Localized absorption of photons and carrier generation
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Graduate Protons Neutrons and Electrons in a neutron star
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Graduate Heat insulating material near abs zero
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Graduate Can Vortices in Type II Superconductors Move?
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Graduate Understanding Hamiltonian with Even/Odd Bonds
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Graduate What are the roles of gas and solid in nanowire growth using the VLS method?
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Graduate Level Broadening at interfaces
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Graduate Why does high reflectivity correspond to an absorption peak?
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Undergrad What is Correlation Length and How is it Related to Surface Roughness?
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Graduate How to interpret the powder diffraction?
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Graduate Eigenvalue of the system and the one of its part
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Graduate How Does Electron Beam Lithography Work for Patterning Gold on a Substrate?
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Graduate Constant for different types of lattices
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Graduate Persistence of a knotted Abrikosov vortex
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Graduate Transmission coefficient in reaction rate theory
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