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Graduate Valence and conduction bands in an n-type material
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Graduate Properties of the Dirac point and Topological Insulators
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Graduate Why is the quantum defect less dependent on n than l in alkali atoms?
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Graduate Must know about Thulium ferrite magnets
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High School Can we see atoms? How do we know they exist?
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Graduate How Does the Lorentz Force Act on a Superconducting Ring in BCS Theory?
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Undergrad Can you explain Fermi levels to me?
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Graduate Why do atoms have magnetic moments, but no electric dipole moments?
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Graduate Collisional excitation of diatomic molecules
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Undergrad Maximum ionization of free elements
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Graduate Can Phonon Transport in Photonic Crystals Unlock New Discoveries?
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Graduate Magnetic Anisotropy: Factors & Fe3+ vs Mn3+ in Octahedral
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Graduate Which way does the magnetism of the cubic iron struture point?
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Graduate Drude model electron interaction
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Graduate The title for this content could be What are Spherical Even Even Nuclei?
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Graduate Scattering in Solid State Theory.
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Graduate Weak Localization, Anderson Localization and disorder
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Undergrad X-ray diffraction or reflection?
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Graduate Understanding tight binding model
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Graduate A Simple Crystallography Question
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Graduate Gibbs free energy and enthelpy relationship
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Graduate Energy resolution of triple-axis spectrometer
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Graduate What do the peaks in the reflectance spectrum of silicon samples represent?
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Graduate Real microstates change within mixing two gases
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Graduate How can the band-gap structure be determined using the E-k graph?
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Graduate Why are Fe, Ni, Co ferromagnetic among metals?
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Graduate Quasiparticles,Plasmons,and exotic atoms
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Undergrad Why isn't chromium's electron configuration 2, 8, 12, 2?
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Graduate Semiconductor and fermi energy
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Graduate Superconductors and the Meissner Effect
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Graduate MD: Lennard Jones Hi: Troubleshooting Divergences in Simulations
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Graduate Bragg's law and the distribution of electromagnetic energy.
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Graduate Single electron transistor at high-temperature
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Graduate What is the value of N in the CBH model for electrical conductivity?
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Graduate We can't have elastic scattering even theoretically
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Graduate Interpreting 2-D FFTs of images
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Graduate Understanding the Unit Cell of Wurtzite Crystal Structure: A Brief Overview
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Graduate How does atomic force microscope create tunnelling?
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Graduate Can RF Sputtering cause the the ejected target to ionise?
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Graduate High-Temperature Superconductor Transport
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Graduate Why the mass action law is not valid for very low temperatures?
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Undergrad Do molecules have intrinsic magnetic fields?
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Graduate Fluctuating XRD Sapphire Intensity
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Graduate Applicability of Ising model on real materials
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Graduate Does Surface Energy Vary with Microsphere Size?
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Graduate Is the energy density normalized differently in the quantum case?
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High School How were atomic masses determined before mass spectroscopy existed?
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Graduate Time resolved Photoluminescence analysis
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Graduate Crystal Directions: Finding Basis Vectors
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Graduate Dopants at adjacent sites. Probability. Solid State Physics.
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Graduate Significance Of Fermi Level in Semiconductor
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High School What Happens When Atoms Die?
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Graduate Exact diagonalization by Bogoliubov transformation
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Undergrad Total Energy of 2 Photons from Positron-Electron Boom
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Graduate Miller Indices (hklj): Hexagonal Lattice Explained
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Graduate What Is the Real Mechanism Behind Raman Spectroscopy?
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Graduate Do phonons conserve momentum or not?
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Graduate What is the reason for weak force?
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Graduate Understanding the schoenflies notation
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Graduate Relation between crystal momentum of the electron and other momentums
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Graduate Surface plasmons and hot electrons
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Graduate Do intramolecular bonds vibrate in solids ?
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Graduate Three different electron configurations in a semiconductor
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Graduate Relation between liquid water pressure and it's molecular dynamics
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Undergrad Welcome to the P-n Junction Inquiry
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Graduate First pressure derivative of bulk modulus at zero pressure
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Graduate Proton magnetic moment flip angle 54.7 in an external magnetic field
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Graduate Qualitative explanation of radiative transitions and selection rules.
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Undergrad SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device)
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Graduate How does an emission take place by radiation?
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Graduate The role of phonons in momentum conservation
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Graduate Van Hove singularity for a two dimensional lattice
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Graduate Can photovoltaic cells capture gamma photons?
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Graduate Summing over spins in Ising model.
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Graduate Fermi Distribution: Explaining (1) & (2) in My Book Notes
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Graduate Do nano-metals become semiconductors?
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Graduate External Magnetic Field & Electron Spin Interaction
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Graduate Crystallinity and electron transport
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Graduate Finding the bond length of hydrogen theoretically
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Graduate Is my background too weak to study superconductivity?
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Undergrad Density of States: Definition & Explanation
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Graduate What is the role of chemical potential in conduction?
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Graduate Electron Transfer at Vacuum-Metal Interface
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Graduate How can type-I superconductors have a critical field value?
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Undergrad Why Are Octahedral Complexes the Most Common in Crystal Field Theory?
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Graduate Is BCS low-temp superconductivity completely accepted?
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Graduate How about the energy of crystal in a direct transition?
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Graduate Deriving the Fermi Distribution: Fixed Particle Canonical Ensemble
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Undergrad How to find barrier potential of pn junction diode
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Graduate Temporal symmetry of nature violation according to nobel prize winner
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Graduate Is there such a thing as forbidden bound-free atomic transitions?
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Graduate Stress and strain atomic level
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Graduate Magnetoresistance and Fermi surfaces
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Graduate Relation between k and group velocity in bands
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Graduate Why do heated solids emit radiation as a continuum?
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Graduate 2nd Order Perturbation Coefficients.
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Graduate Isotropic crystal and energy band
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Graduate What Governs the Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Materials?
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Undergrad Why transition metals can have unpaired electrons in their compounds?
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Undergrad Doping with impurities does what to Silicon?
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