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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
- VortexLattice
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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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High School What happens to atoms if an object is hit?
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Graduate Spin Orbit Coupling leading to topological insulator behaviour
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High School Difference beteween Strength, Hardness and Toughness
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Graduate The Cause of X-ray crystal Diffraction
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Graduate Explanation of a quantum simulator
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Graduate Fast Neutron Reactors and Breeder Reactors
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Graduate Conduction band splitting under spin/orbit coupling
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Graduate How fast can you 'switch' between superconducting and normal modes?
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Graduate Effect of electrical field on annealing of thin film bismuth
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Undergrad Few basic questions about p-n junction
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Graduate Statistical mechanics with a negative amount of atoms
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Graduate Temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity of a metal
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Graduate Is 10 e/nm^2 a Realistic Surface Charge Density?
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Graduate Better explanation for why electrons in filled bands don't conduct?
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Graduate Are polaritons simply photons propagating in medium?
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Graduate Calculating the transmission of a 1mm thick silicon wafer at various wavelengths
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Graduate How to Calculate Detection Probability of Alpha Particles from a 241Am Source?
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Graduate Exchange and correlation and their defernces
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Graduate The story of anti-ferromagntism
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Graduate Plasma colour in a sputtering chamber
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Graduate How to find Density of states numerically?
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Graduate Why exchange-correlation effects reduces the energy?
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Graduate Heisenberg interaction Hamiltonian for square lattice
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Graduate How to Address High Weight Fraction of Secondary Phase in Rietveld Refinement?
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Graduate Metal-semiconductor junction with p-type and n-type and varying work functions
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Graduate What is The real cause of meissner effect in superconductors?
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Graduate Understanding the Bad-Cavity Limit in Hydrogen-Masers: Recommended Literature
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Graduate Exploring the Cut-Back Method: How to Measure Propagation Losses
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Graduate Why F- has less energy than F?
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Graduate Van der Waals gas is not real gas?
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Graduate Thomas-Fermi approximation and the dielectric function
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Graduate Understanding Rabi's NMR Work: Comparing Molecular Beam and Stern Methods
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Graduate Article: Higgs Boson in Superconductors
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Undergrad Graphene supercapacitor production using scotch tape
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Graduate Help wanted for calculation of graphene conductivity
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Undergrad Methods of cooling matter to extremely low temperatures
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Graduate What is the significance of the pseudospin operator in multi-atom systems?
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Graduate Understanding Coulomb Force in Plasmas
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Graduate What is probability per unit time
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Graduate Expanding atomic displacements in terms of all lattice wave modes?
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Graduate The Superfluid Nature of Helium: Why Does It Refuse to Freeze?
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Graduate Lorentzian line shape function
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High School Diffenent between binding energy and formation energy
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Graduate Question about vibrational quality of a molecule (like Deuterium Oxide) ?
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Graduate How do neutrons gain energy from phonon scattering?
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Graduate What Is the Physical Meaning of Density of States in Solid State Physics?
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Graduate RKKY Interaction: Defining $\hat{H}$
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Graduate Is the Fourier transf. of an autocorrelation functn always positive?
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Graduate Decrease permeability of ferromagnetic materials
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Graduate Physics of semiconductor in light and dark
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Graduate Free electron Theory and Boltzmann Transport equation
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Graduate Indirect exchange interactions Fourier transforms
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Undergrad About fermi levels in extrensic semiconductors.
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Undergrad Questioning Current Flow Through a Semiconductor
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Graduate Understanding Crystal Structure Basics: Q&A with the Experts
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Graduate Definition of the dielectric function in the linear response regime
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Graduate Understanding Resistivity in Superconductors
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Graduate Using RGT to Find Critical Temp/Point of 2D Ising Model
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Graduate Delocalizing Electrons: Time and Diffusion Lengths in Conduction Bands
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Undergrad Why is BOTH the electron & hole drift velocity positive?
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Graduate Clasical statistical mechanics
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Graduate Mathematical description of Refractive index in crystal/glass
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Undergrad Hall effect and semiconductors
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Graduate Pulse Sequences in NMR: Understanding π/2 and π Pulses
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Graduate What is the physical significance of dephasing in cavity QED?
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High School Question about conductors, wires and lattice of ions
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Graduate What is the meaning of a basis?
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Graduate What precisely IS reflection: what happens at the microscopic level?
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Graduate Spin of an Electron: Meaning & Quantum Number
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Graduate Transition Rate vs. Probability
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Graduate Surface Reconstruction: RHEED/LEED
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Graduate Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) Interpretation
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Graduate Statistical ensembles of various kinds
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Graduate Electron wavelength in superconductors
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Graduate Forbidden Electron Energies in Band Theory of Solids
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Undergrad What is meant by Early atomic models predicted noble gas stable
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Graduate Decomposition of total Wavefunction for N electron problem
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Graduate Learning Dynamical Mean Field Theory
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Graduate The definition of the density operator in Pathria
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Graduate Dimension, fluctuations, and phase transitions
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Graduate Confusion about Unit Cell Structure: Understanding Lattice and Basis Vectors
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Graduate Graphene: Displacement of atoms out of the 2D Plane
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Graduate Where Can I Find Exact Results for the Ising Model?
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Graduate Upward Band Bending in n-Type Si Contacted by Metal
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Graduate Origin of internal magnetic field in an atom
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Graduate Symmetry of E(k) in the first BZ
- hokhani
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Graduate Interception of 2 Energy Bands in 1st Brillouin Zone
- hokhani
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Undergrad Ferromagnetism versus Paramagnetism
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