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High School What is the hardest man made material?
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Graduate Difference between SAED pattern and XRD Pattern
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Undergrad What is Autoionization? Understanding the Concept of Autoionization State
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Graduate Alpha & Gamma Radiation Effects on CR-39 Detectors
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Graduate Can a Solid Have Lower Free Energy than a Liquid at Low Packing Densities?
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Graduate How a fermi level can lies between valence and conduvtion band?
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Graduate Why is a triplet state said to have anti-parallel spins?
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Graduate What type of tensor describes strain in a cubic object?
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Graduate Doped Graphite May Be Superconductive Upto 230 C
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Graduate Understanding Orbital Magnetic Moments in 1-Electron Atoms
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Graduate Calculating the amount of time for recombination
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Graduate Oscillation of one molecule or atom
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Graduate Normal Mode Analysis at non-equilbrium structures
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Graduate 3D Recipricol Space Mapping of Nanowires by using x-rays
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Graduate Can the atomic liquid Hydrogen exist?
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Graduate Sulfate Peaks in IR: Glucosamine HCl & Glucosamine Sulfate 2KCl
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Graduate Crystal Symmetry: Explaining High Temp Effects
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Undergrad Origin of the depletion region in a p-n junction
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Undergrad What is the calculation for effective nuclear charge using Slater's Rules?
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Graduate Two dimensional Blume-Capel model with random crystal field
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High School Software/database for simple crystal structure design?
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Undergrad Why is Si indirect semiconductor
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Graduate Mott VR Hopping Calculation Question
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Graduate Calculation of InAS WurtZite bragg peak position
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Graduate With or without magnetic field.
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Graduate How to calculate the Bremsstrahlung Background?
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Graduate Coupled Cluster Scaling Question
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Graduate Structure of the Phonon Free Propagator
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Graduate Neumann's Principle - applicable to the wavefunction?
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Graduate Si conductivity depenence on crystal orientation?
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Graduate What Are Gap Exponents and Their Importance in Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Radioactivity - quantum tunnelling
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Graduate The Role of Boundary Conditions in the 2D Ising Model: A Finite Lattice Study
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Graduate Methods to stabilize scanning tunneling microscope(STM)
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Graduate Scanning Electron Microscopy of Graphene
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Graduate Instability of an atomic clock
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Graduate Error incurred from approximating fermi surfaces to be a sphere
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Graduate Excitation energy of quantum dots
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Undergrad How Does the Mass of a Hole Exceed That of an Electron in Semiconductors?
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Graduate Graphene - Green's function technique
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Graduate Graphene ambipolar field effect
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Graduate Counterexamples to the bulk-boundary correspondence (topological insulators)
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Graduate Why Do Edge States Carry the Current in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect?
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Graduate Heath bad method for Ising model
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Undergrad Heat is just kinetic energy at a molecular level, right?
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Graduate Addition of orbital angular momentum in valence 4f^2 electronic configuration
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High School Strength of Bonds: List in Ascending Order
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Undergrad How Do Molecular Forces Influence Material Properties and Binding Energy?
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Graduate Solving n_{n0} Using Charge Neutrality & Mass Action Law
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Graduate What is the Nolting spin product of graphs?
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Undergrad Is a proton a hydrogen cation and vice versa?
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Graduate Photocurrent shot noise correlation function
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Graduate Seebeck Coefficient from the BTE
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Graduate Free electron dispersion relation, help?
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Graduate Why do energy bands bend in semiconductors?
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Graduate How to Determine Band Gap of Amorphous Materials Using Optical Absorption Edge
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Graduate Pauli Principle and Electrons in a Metal
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Graduate Topological Insulators and Inversion Symmetry
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Graduate London theory, Landau theory and Lorentz Einstein law
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Graduate What is the significance of the pump-term in the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian?
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Graduate Atomic Coherence(Polarization) of Two Dipole-Dipole Coupled Atoms
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Graduate X-Ray diffraction - The Von Laue's equation
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Graduate Why are the coefficients of the Landau theory Taylor expansion even?
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High School Hydrogen atom spectrum experiment
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Graduate De Broglie wavelength and Fermi wavelength
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Graduate Electron System Thermodynamics: Plasmon Energies 5-30eV
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Graduate Two different expressions of Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian
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Graduate While defining a graphene structure
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Undergrad What are all of the subatomic particles?
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Graduate Why is my SPC water model calculating a significantly higher energy value?
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Graduate Transforming BCS state to real space
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Graduate Electron-Phonon interaction, is it like gravity?
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Graduate Zero resistivity in superconducting state
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Graduate Difference between corelation function and corelation lenght
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Graduate Ultra low momentum neutron
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Undergrad The components of atoms and their effects on its properties
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Graduate Problems in the modern semiconductor/electronics technology?
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Graduate Understanding Ising Cell Hamiltonian
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Graduate Superconductivity and the BCS Theory
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Undergrad Specfic question about the formation of the depletion region in a pn junction
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Graduate Raman: Why does only some light scatter inelastically?
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Undergrad Why Does Bragg's Law Require Integers?
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Graduate Topological Phase: Definition & Examples
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Graduate Conservation of current in superconductor
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Undergrad What are atomic energy levels?
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Graduate Understanding Spin Product of Graphs: Solutions to Questions
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Graduate The ‘Brownian ratchet’ and its relevance to the second law of thermodynamics.
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Graduate Spontaneously broken gauge symmetry
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Graduate Are superconductivity and melting not understood?
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Verification of the existence of a scientific article
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Graduate Using a combination of a specular and diffuse reflector
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Undergrad How do Covalent Bonds Produce Color?
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Graduate What actually is the Dirac Point ?
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Graduate Integration of the reciprocal lattice
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Undergrad Simple question How to calculate the mean free path
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Graduate Relationship between photoluminescence intensity and Absroption Intensity
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Graduate Instrumental line broadening of Rigaku smartlab
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Graduate Difference Between Speromagnetism, Paramagnetism & Spin-Glass
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Graduate New Theory: from Superfluids to Higgs mechanism
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Graduate Interatomic potential LCAO using GGA
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