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Undergrad Power Spectral Density of a laser
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Graduate Ionization Potentials for Protactinium
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Graduate What Is the Role of Spin in Molecular Biology and Physics?
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Graduate Exchange coupling constant in micromagnetic simulation
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High School Can You Understand the Basics of Composite Particles?
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Graduate Wave function at high symmetry point
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Undergrad How does Rutherford's Atomic Model explain energy loss in revolving electrons?
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Graduate Questions regarding Surface plasmons
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Graduate Potential between Cooper pairs
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Undergrad What does invalid pair_style mean in LAMMPS?
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Graduate Does the unit cell size affect the wave function of graphene?
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Graduate Optical Molasses: Is Polarization Important?
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High School What are the basic terms in semiconductor physics and how are they defined?
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Graduate Highly degenerate semiconductor uses
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Graduate What is the Role of Resistivity in Determining the Purity of Solvents?
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Graduate What does this term mean (language/argot)
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Graduate Obtaining momentum distibution from Green's functions
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Graduate XRD Structure Factor: Primitive Unit Cell vs Convention Unit Cell
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Graduate Can an Enclosed Superconducting Loop Generate Electromotive Force?
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Graduate Would someone explain me superconductivity?
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Graduate System of green functions in solid state physics
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Graduate About basis of the honeycomb lattice
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Graduate Confusing on Bravais lattice and base vectors
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Graduate Finding Special K-Points in Cubic Structures - mechdude
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Graduate Calculating Energy Levels for Lattice Using Analytic Continuation?
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Undergrad Semiconductors + p-n junction doubt
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Graduate What Are the Mechanisms Behind Stripe Phases in Superconductivity?
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Graduate Why are the K points in the Brillouin zone of graphene inequivalent?
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Graduate Thin film asymmetrical grazing angle XRD
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and Bose-Einstein condensation.
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Graduate Josephson current in normal metals
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Graduate Antiferromagnetic crystals with F and Cl
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Graduate Flux tubes in a Type II Superconductor
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Graduate Split Electron: Is it an Elementary Particle?
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Graduate Understand Semiconductor Elec. States at 0K and Room Temp
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Graduate Energy Band structure in Noncrystalline material
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Graduate Solar efficiencies of photovoltaics in relation to the band gap energies?
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Undergrad On probability of a MonteCarlo step
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Graduate Activity and chemical potential
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Graduate HCl molecule, rotational and vibrational energy question
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Graduate Bose Einstein condensate/ atom laser
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Graduate Band theory and Semiconductors
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Graduate STM experiment (HOPG) data analysis/image processing
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Undergrad Atomic/Ionic Radii: Helium vs. Lithium+ (ion)
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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Seebeck Coefficient and Temperature Gradient?
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Graduate Determining background radiation in a decay spectrum
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Graduate Complex permeability and permittivity
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Undergrad Scherrer Equation unit dilemma
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High School What is of an atom and how common it is?
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Graduate Expression for recoil velocity of hydrogen atom during electron transition
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Undergrad Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
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Graduate NMR Theory, Relaxation and Precession
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Graduate Pairing gap equation weak coupling
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Graduate Molecular spectroscopy and accepted literature values
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Graduate Water models, numerical simulations questions
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Graduate Thermal Superconductor Design: Possible?
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Graduate Time reversal symmetry in Topological insulators of HgTe quantum Wells
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Graduate To calculate absorption coefficient
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Graduate Multiplicity of an Einstein solid
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Graduate Group velocity at Brillouin zone boundary
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Graduate What Makes Wire Grid Polarizers Effective in Controlling Electron Movement?
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Graduate How Can I Minimize Liquid Helium Boil-Off in Dewar Flasks?
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Graduate What Are Charge Carriers and Bilayer Properties in Graphene?
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Graduate What does k mean in E-k diagram?
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Graduate Properties of Tungsten Nitride: WN Needed
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Graduate Upper limit of Miller indices of BCC and FCC crystals?
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Graduate Regime of Fermi gas or liquid?
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Graduate Effect of sample size when using periodic boundary conditions in 2D Ising model
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Undergrad Simple New Way to Make Graphene
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Graduate What's the excitation temp of He? How to get this?(DBD plasma)
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Graduate Topological Insulator: 100% Spin Polarization & Transport Properties
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Graduate Graphyne Better Than Graphene?
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Graduate How can a phonon be localized? A meaningless concept? Yet Kittel
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Graduate Thomas-Fermi Screening Approximation
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Graduate How does a supercritical fluid look like? Like a gas or like a liquid?
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Graduate Can heat (Phonons) generate an electric field in Piezocrystals?
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Graduate Time orbiting potential trap (TOP-trap)
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Graduate Natural Orbitals for Particles in a Box
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Undergrad Is DFT Still the Go-To Method for Electronic Structure Calculations?
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Graduate Can an Antiproton Replace an Electron in a Heavy Atom and Create a Stable Atom?
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Undergrad Understanding Law of Mass Action
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Undergrad LEDs and Solid State Devices: Lifespan Explained
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Graduate Phonon Dispersion: Definition & Explanation
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Graduate Momentum space representation for finite lattices - continued
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Graduate Momentum space representation for finite lattices
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Graduate Understanding DFT to Calculate Potential Energy of Atoms
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Undergrad Can Graphene Be Used for Visible Displays Despite Being One Atom Thick?
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Graduate Anyone(s) want to team up in covering a many-body book?
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Graduate What's the difference between a Luttinger surface and a Fermi surface?
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Graduate Electronic to vibrational energy transfer
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Graduate Help Students Comprehend Reciprocal Lattice & Brillouin Zone
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Undergrad Raman spectroscopy-vibrational modes
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Graduate Calculating 2D Dispersion Relation with Different Atom Types
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Graduate Explanation of superfluidity in He-4
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Graduate Excitons in Multiple QWs
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Graduate Conductivity in a one-dimensional chain of flourine atoms
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Graduate Bloch Theory of electrical resistivity - Derivation
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Undergrad Understanding Brownian Motion: Statistics & Standard Deviation
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Graduate BEC condenstate thermal statistics vs. coherence
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Graduate From London Equations to Penetration Depth(Integrate Laplacian)
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