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Graduate Energy levels shifts in a time-varying electric field
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High School Atomic Energy Levels: Simplified Explanations for the Curious
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High School Quantum Physics and Atomic Physics
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High School Can atoms not notice each other?
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Graduate Why is the Brillouin zone a torus?
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Graduate Superconducting and normal electrons are not interchangeable
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Graduate Question about Stark interference
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Graduate What is the Wigner–Seitz cell of diamond?
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Undergrad Collision-induced free-free absorption in fluids and superfluids
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Undergrad Selection Rules for a Diatomic Molecule?
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Undergrad Compton scattering experiment
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Graduate Time dependent perturbation theory applied to energy levels
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Graduate Poor convergence using Fe HMOs for FMO in Gamess
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Undergrad Is it possible to have "ideal surface" whose highest peak is ~1 nm?
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Graduate Trying to reproduce the energy levels of a molecule from a paper
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Undergrad Characteristic X Rays: Understanding Atom Reversion
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Undergrad Why is resistivity inversely proportional to resistance for NTC semiconductors?
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Undergrad Energy levels of atoms and spectroscopic analysis
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Undergrad Emission of light from incandescence of metals
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Graduate Kirkendall effect: vacancy concentration and pair interaction energy
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Undergrad How azimutal quantum number got its range value
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Graduate Electrical & thermal conductivities
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Graduate Error signal when locking a cavity
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Undergrad What do the Roman Numerals mean in Spectroscopic Data?
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Graduate Quantum projection when measuring state population
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Graduate Weird beam behavior in a cavity
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Graduate Description of in-band relaxation?
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Graduate Unknown large linewidth of the fringes of a cavity
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Graduate Experiments for temperature dependence of persistent supercurrent?
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Undergrad Electron transitions within the same excited state?
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Graduate Understand Electronic Dispersion: Definition & Examples
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Undergrad Is a phonon a quasiparticle or a collective excitation?
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Undergrad Trying to better understand temperature and entropy
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Undergrad Polarization in Rabi oscillations
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Undergrad Why Are 8 Valence Electrons Essential for Atomic Stability?
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High School Can you create neutronium by colliding electrons and protons?
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Undergrad Can Superconductors Reach Relativistic Speeds and Emit Synchrotron Photons?
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Graduate AC Stark shift in diatomic molecules
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Graduate How can I overcome alignment issues with a bow-tie cavity?
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Graduate Question about bow-tie cavities
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Undergrad Questions about Curie Temperature Characteristics
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Undergrad Superconductors and moving/accelerating charges
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Graduate Dressed states for a 3 level system
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Graduate BCS theory of superconductivity and eternal supercurrents?
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Graduate Experimental Semiconductor Bandgap Databases
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Undergrad Absorption and emission spectroscopy of atoms
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Graduate Which one of the GGA or G0W0 calculations is more accurate?
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Undergrad Why are the spectral lines weak in my hydrogen Geissler tube?
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Undergrad What actually is the free energy? Why is it useful?
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Graduate Selection rule for spectra with circular polarization
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Undergrad P-n junction diodes (Both bias)
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Undergrad Ion Ablation Target Experiment: Estimating Energy Spread
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Graduate How to interpret this equation in Szabo & Ostlund's book
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Undergrad I have a question about the mathematical model of a reflective curve
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Undergrad Hartree-Fock / Szabo & Ostlund book
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High School Something strange about doping semiconductors
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Undergrad XRD Scherrer Equation -- need explanation
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High School Proof of the existence of atoms
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Undergrad Bragg condition and Bloch states
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Graduate Interpreting UV absorption spectra
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Undergrad Transition Dipole Moments for Strontium
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Graduate Probability of resonant ionization
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Graduate Indirect and direct band gaps in silicon
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High School What is the focus of Atkins' popular textbook in physical chemistry?
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Undergrad Calculating the specific heat capacity for the 2D Ising model
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Undergrad Numerical Calculation of Hamiltonian Overlaps
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Undergrad What determines the time between atomic absorption and emission of photons?
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Graduate Fourier Transform MW spectroscopy in a FB cavity
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Undergrad Derivation of Voigt's Shear Modulus
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Graduate How Can You Identify Perovskite in Solar Cells Without Advanced Lab Techniques?
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Graduate How Do Measurements and Excitation Wavelengths Affect Single NV Center Analysis?
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Undergrad Measuring the built-in potential of a pn junction
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Graduate Vibrations in a bow-tie cavity
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Graduate Ray Tracing Simulator: Simulating Gaussian Beam in Bow Tie Cavity
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Undergrad Wave in phonon as "forward and backward" movement vs temperature
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Undergrad Isotope measurements in molecules
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Undergrad How Small Can a Transistor Be and Still Work Reliably?
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Undergrad Can resonance be used to split a molecule of CO2?
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Graduate Magnetic sublevels of a random atom
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Undergrad Vanadium oxide oxidation states binding energy -- unequal spacing
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Graduate Laser signal input for PDH lock
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Undergrad Trouble understanding the SI definition of 1 second
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Graduate Accounting for Astigmatism in Bow Tie Cavity: Finding the Optimal Cavity Length
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Graduate Surface impedance equation for resonators
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Undergrad Space Group Symmetry: What is F d3m Spinel Structure?
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Undergrad Capping layer in semiconductor quantum dot fabrication
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Undergrad Magnetization inside a diamagnetic material antiparallel to ##B_{ext}##
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Graduate A good quantum number for Cnv symmetry?
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Undergrad Broken symmetry in ferromagnetism
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Graduate How to simulate an isotope shift measurement
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Graduate Centrifugal distortion of a diatomic molecule
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Graduate Question about an equation from anapole measurement paper
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Graduate "Cross-section" and "half-life" of excited states
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Graduate Question about a measured spectra
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Undergrad What makes cobalt oxide (co3o4) a magnetic material?
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Undergrad What are thermal fluctuations?
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Undergrad Survivability in 1 psi zone: How screwed am I?
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Undergrad Optimizing PID Parameters for Laser Servo Locking
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Graduate How to slow down a high energy neutral molecular beam
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Undergrad Diatomic molecules containing potassium
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