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Graduate A New Generation of Atomic Clocks
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Graduate How does surface potential depend on doping level in semiconductors
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Undergrad Piezoelectric materials within a vacuum
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Graduate Bragg's Law: Why is the equation not like this?
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Graduate Josephson Junctions: Is There a Contradiction?
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Undergrad Why Does Energy Behavior Differ in Particle in a Box Model Versus Bohr's Theory?
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Undergrad Position of holes in p-type semiconductors
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Graduate U parameter in hexagonal unitcells
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Graduate Trouble Collecting IR Spectrum of a-Si:H
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Graduate Kramers-Kronig relations on a finite data set
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Graduate Doubts on 2D and 3D Ising Model
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Graduate Difference between Binding Energy and Adsorption Energy
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Graduate Atomic Vibration in Einstein & Debye Models
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Graduate What causes odd electron configurations in elements like Cu, Cr, Ag, and Au?
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Graduate Thermal excitation of electrons in semiconductors
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High School Valency electrons and determining the spin
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Graduate Calculating Effective Mass: Expressing as a Fraction of Electron Rest Mass
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Graduate Where does the Berry phase of $\pi$ come from in a topological insulat
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Graduate Calculating the Dielectric Function of metals - Units trouble
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Graduate Conduction Band Density of States for 2D Electron Gas
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Graduate Molecules under high electric field
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Graduate Critical exponents in Monte Carlo simulations
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Undergrad Chromium/Vanadiam Sublimation or Melting
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Graduate Understanding Heisenberg Hamiltonian Notation for 4-Site Chain
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Graduate Has Luttinger liquid been experimentally confirmed?
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Graduate Interaction of two wavefunctions
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Graduate Gibbs Free Energy and the Grand Potential
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Graduate What's the x-ray diffraction pattern of triangular atoms?
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Graduate BCS Theory Magnetic Flux Question
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Graduate Near-resonant atomic transitions
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Graduate Diagonalization of a hamiltonian for a quantum wire
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Graduate Characteristic X-Rays and Energy Bands in Solids
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Graduate Calculating the Volume of a Diamond Unit Cell
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Undergrad Drift and diffusion in semiconductors
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Graduate Simulation of rotational spectra of a symmetric top
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Graduate How hyperfine spiliting takes place ?
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Graduate Dispersive Component of Surface Energy
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Graduate Basic question about the generalized Poisson Equation
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Graduate What happens when we rotate crystal while shooting electrons at it?
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Graduate Total Angular Momentum and Binding Energy
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Graduate How Does Electron Diffusion Create the Depletion Region in Solid State Devices?
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Graduate Aluminium has no negatively charged particles?
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Graduate Oxidation (Charge) State and Screening
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Graduate What happens when you try to add an electron to a semiconductor?
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Undergrad Why building a BJT transistor out of two diodes is impossible?
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Graduate How Do Bloch Wavefunctions Constrain Real-Valued Potentials?
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Graduate Relativistic Treatment of Core Electrons (DFT)
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Graduate Band Bending at SiO2 Interface
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High School Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment: Revealing the Secrets of Atomic Structure
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Graduate Paschen-Back and Zeeman in different base
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Graduate Ising-Heisenberg Model Hamiltonian: a>2?
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Graduate Stationary Orbits, Are they Real or just Idilization?
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High School What is difference between diagram monoatomic and diatomic ?
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Graduate Understanding the Cooper pair in real space
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Undergrad Hydrogen isotopes in palladium
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Graduate How does temperature affect excitonic absorption?
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Undergrad Mass-action Law(extrinsic conductor)
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Undergrad Atomic Structure of Wet Oxidized Silicon
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Graduate How Does Superconductivity Allow for 0 Resistance?
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Graduate Why is there zero resistivity in superconductors when there is non-zero entropy?
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Undergrad Why Can Electrons in the Conduction Band Move Around so Easily
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Graduate Questions about electrically neutral atoms
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Graduate Lorentz resonance number and number of poles for Lorentz model
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Graduate What is the significance of the contact potential in metal-metal interfaces?
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Graduate Van der Waals radius of hydrogen deuteride
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Graduate Is my material Nanocrystalline or Amorphous? (XRD and Raman)
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Graduate About different Green functions, I'm lost
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Graduate Meissner Effect in a strong field?
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Graduate Why Conduction Band? Understanding Its Significance
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Graduate MOS-Capacitor: Investigating Depletion Region Neutralization
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Graduate Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Junction
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Graduate Are gases included in sold-state physics?
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Graduate What is the role of CdTe in CdTe/HgTe/CdTe Topological insulator?
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Graduate What is the difference between Mott localization & Anderson loc.?
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Graduate Elastic Tunneling: Electron Pathways Explained
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Graduate Schottky Barrier: Effects of Semiconductor Width on Contact Potential
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Graduate Does the Fermi Level in Insulators Always Reside Near the Band Gap Center?
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Graduate Using what Liquid gas to cool TYPE I Superconductors?
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High School How protons electrons and neutrons relate to an atom's characteristics
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Undergrad Best solid state physics video course
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High School Can subatomic particles be considered monopoles?
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Graduate Antiferromagnetism and electronic config.
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Undergrad The meaning of a symbol in Atomic Theory
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Undergrad Understand the Metropolis Algorithm - Physics Student Guide
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Graduate Thermodynamics Maxwell relation
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Graduate Longitudinal plasmon oscillation
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Graduate Meaning of soulution of Central Equation: Nearly free electron model
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Undergrad Why does a zener diode sustain high reverse current?
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Graduate NVT/NPT Monte Carlo Simulation - Thermodynamics Explained
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Graduate What is the many-electron wavefunction ?
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Graduate Weak periodic potential-degeneracy
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Graduate Putting phase factor in amplitude in Lorentz oscillator
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Graduate Why does superconductivity occur?
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Graduate Curie-Weiss law and paramagnetic materials
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Undergrad Beta Minus Decay: Questions & Answers
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Graduate Can we measure the band energy gap from Fluorescence spectra
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Graduate Help request with complex conductivity
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Graduate Comparing different parpameters to be a plasmonic material
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Undergrad What is the energy conversion in a forward biased silicon diode?
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Graduate Partition function for one particle
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