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Graduate Spontaneous symmetry breaking. Ferromagnet.
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Graduate Depletion zone of a n-i junction
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Graduate Close packed structures with bases
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Graduate BCS and the formation of Copper Pairs
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Graduate Finding Distances to Brillouin Zone Borders from Origo
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Graduate Understanding Raman Mode Representation at Specific Wave Numbers
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Undergrad Can We See Real Images of Atoms and Molecules Today?
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Graduate What are Cooper pairs from superconductors
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Graduate Ionic Core Distance: Explaining the Significance
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Graduate Why Does Bragg Diffraction Occur for Bound Electrons in a Crystal?
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Graduate Superconductor/Ferromagnet Interfaces
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Graduate Band structure and electric field
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Undergrad Equilibrium Distribution of Electrons and Holes
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Graduate Understanding Electron Effective Mass in Crystals
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Graduate How Do Energy Boundaries Extend to Infinity in Ashcroft Mermin's Equation 2.60?
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Graduate Molecular hydrogen excitation levels
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Undergrad What is the Franck-Condon principle?
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Graduate Correlation length of surface roughness
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Graduate Superconductors - some general questions.
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Graduate Reciprocal Lattice: Visible Points in an X-Ray Experiment
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Undergrad Closed electron configuration equivalent to closed shell
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Graduate Can there be molecular structures according to QM?
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Graduate Born-Oppenheimer approximation
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Graduate Graphene and Silicene: Beyond the Hype?
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Graduate Why can't optical phonons travel far?
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Graduate Does graphene actually remain strong for macroworld engineering?
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Graduate Amount of flux lines 'pinned' in type II superconductor
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Graduate Covalent bonds in p-type semiconductor
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Graduate Bonds in Semiconductor crystals
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Undergrad Creating Input Files in Quantum Espresso: A Beginner's Guide
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Undergrad What is the work function of AlGaN and how can it be calculated?
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Graduate Does BE condensate release or abort energies?
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Graduate Criteria of periodic boundary condition
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Undergrad Thickness of Graphene: Theory & Measurement
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Graduate Electrostatic energy per e- for an alkali metal
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Graduate Born-Oppenheimer approximation confusion
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Undergrad Why Do Atoms (generally) Follow The Octet Rule?
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Graduate Significance of free electron gas density of states in different dimensions?
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Graduate How to Rotate a Standard Cell to Align a Specific Plane with [001]?
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Graduate Polariton, polaron, plasmon and spaser
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Graduate Charge carrier injection in heterostructures - help with concept definition
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Undergrad Looking for atomic energy level database
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Graduate Threshold voltage dependence on Vdb
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Undergrad What is the meaning of diffusion coefficient?
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Graduate Fermi Energy and Fermi Level in Semiconductors
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High School Where can I find images of atomic energy level diagrams for chemical elements?
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High School Extensive and intensive quantities
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Graduate Question about Bloch function in Reduced Zone Scheme
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Graduate Development of new nanocrystal materials
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Graduate Atomtronics & Superfluid Circuits
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Graduate Anti-hydrogen locked in a magnetic field
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Graduate Kronig-Penney model only with cosh
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Graduate Atomic Excitation transition energy
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Graduate Heat Transfer Coefficients and Nusselt Numbers of Various Materials
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Graduate Negative Temperature Achieved
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein-Condensate and Superposition
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Graduate Solving Cyclotron Resonance: Azbel-Kaner Method
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Undergrad Understanding Ice Crystal Formation
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Undergrad Calculating force between atoms
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Undergrad Why is Carbon-12 used as the measurement of relative masses?
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Graduate What is the Significance of the d-BCT Phase in Crystallography?
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Undergrad Why is graphene only a recent discovery?
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Graduate Good guide for fractional quantum hall
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Graduate Energy Conservation And X-ray Diffraction
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Graduate Why isn't spin a 5th dimension?
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Undergrad Can You Extract a Single Molecule from Your Body and Examine It?
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Graduate New Possibilities for Kagome-Lattice Antiferromagnet Excitations
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Graduate What Happens to the Space Occupied by Atoms During Nuclear Fusion?
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Graduate Boiling Points of Substances: Effects of Pressure and Temperature
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Graduate Blackbody emission and absorption
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Graduate Do the Creation Operator and Spin Projection Operator Commute?
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Graduate Dispersion relation for (100) and (001)?
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Graduate Tracking Diabatic States in a numerically produced energy spectrum
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Undergrad Help with Half Life: Confused on A=DecayConstant*N and ln(2)
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Graduate How to solve 2d problems numerically.
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Graduate Deriving the London's equation for superconductor
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Graduate Dipole operator and correlations
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Graduate How Does RG Flow Change Dimensions in Ising Universality Classes?
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Graduate Bose-Einstein condensation in the canonical ensemble
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High School Rutherford's atomic model 's limitation
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Graduate Most General Form of the Rate-Equation Approximation
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Graduate Confused about Bogoliubov transformation
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Undergrad Gas temperature increase by pressure
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Graduate Direct and Indirect Optical Band Gap
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Graduate What Makes the Normal and Anormal Zeeman Effects Distinct?
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Graduate The dispersion (standard deviation) of the estimator of neutron flux number
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Undergrad When to use HYBRIdiZED ORBITAL?
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Graduate About soft phonon mode: is it simply of reduced energy
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Graduate What is the energy ordering for d4 ions in a crystal field?
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Graduate Zero Point Energy and Bose Einstein Condensates
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Graduate Is it weird for graphene, the group velocity and momentum
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Undergrad Research Topics in Quantum Dots for Undergrad Summer Research?
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Graduate Question about Bloch's theorem
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Graduate Predicting temp. at which defects will set in
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Undergrad Is there a method of lowering linear expansion of a material?
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Graduate Which dielectric constant in media?
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Graduate Qualitative Description of Reflection
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Graduate X-ray and electron microscope diffraction patterns
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Graduate Gaussian Radius of curvature in an argon ion laser
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Graduate Puzzle about electron affinity in solid-state physics
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