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Graduate Representation theory and totally symmetric ground state?
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Graduate Calculating Excited vs Ground State Ratios in the Sun: A Surprising Discovery
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Undergrad Is Gauss's Law Applicable in Atomic Scales?
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Undergrad Help with connection between crystal and xray
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Graduate Calculating Sound Velocity in Diamond Using Debye Approximation
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Undergrad What do roman numerals mean in spectroscopic data
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Graduate Understanding Landau Level Broadening in Magnetic Fields
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Undergrad Bohr Model of Atom: Stability Condition Explained
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Graduate About ionic crystal and Madelung constant
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High School Good Information on Thin Films
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Graduate Calculate the magnetic energies of Cu and Al
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Graduate Crystal model with periodic boundary conditions
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Graduate Time Scale of Atom: Understanding EM-Beam Coherent Force
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Graduate Minority carriers in a Schottky diode
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Undergrad Crystals: difference between basis and unit cell
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Graduate What is kinetic capacitance in superconductors or in solid state in general?
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Undergrad Understanding Charge Carriers in Semiconductor Junctions
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Graduate Energy Cut off(s) in Gaussian 09 PBC calculations
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Graduate Calculating Gamma Coincidence Likelihood
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Graduate How can a temperature of 100 pK be measured?
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Undergrad Calculating Ionization Energy of Elements Beyond H
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Undergrad Hertz level of solid state matter
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High School Where does radiation come from?
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Graduate Super-fluid 4He - (two domains)
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High School Why atom shells can only hold specific numbers of electrons
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Graduate Regarding BEC: Bose distribution and probabilities
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Graduate Avoiding the Polar Catastrophe in Polar Crystals
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Graduate Exchange Splitting: Atomic Orbitals, Zeeman Effect & More
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Graduate X ray questions:What material is suitable in windows for hard X-rays?
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Undergrad Bremsstrahlung X-rays Energy Limit
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Undergrad Why does Ammonia have such a high specific heat capacity?
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Graduate Total magnetization of an isolated atom
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Undergrad Why Can't Electrons Occupy the Band Gap in a Material?
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Graduate Why Is Entropy Defined as the Logarithm of Multiplicity in Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad When Daughter Activity Becomes Equal To Parent Activity
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Undergrad What comes out of an 'atomic oven' - atoms, ions?
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Undergrad As we know that conductivity of semicondutors can be increased or
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Graduate What is an Optical Lattice and Quantum Dot?
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Graduate Persistence length: What are the beginning and end point in an polymer?
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Graduate Fundamental assumption of statistical mech
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Graduate Graphene How it contradicts 2D models and how can it remain stable.
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Graduate Can the Selection Rule Δl = ±1 Be Applied to Helium Transitions?
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Graduate Understanding Einstein's Solid: Calculating Multiplicity of Energy States
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Graduate Colloidal Synthesis of Nanoparticles: Get Answers Here!
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Graduate Developing Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and I have problem
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Undergrad Why Can't the Voltage at a PN Junction be Measured from the Outside?
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Undergrad Faynman talks about atoms repelling and attracting each other
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Graduate Pn junction, diode and energy level of conduction band during forward biasing
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Graduate How can nano-slit arrays affect the focusing of surface plasmons?
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Graduate Do Anyons Exist? Detecting via Gravitational Waves
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Graduate Optimizing Pseudopotentials in SIESTA for Accurate Simulations
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Graduate Why the surface plasmon always use gold or silver as a metal film?
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High School Do Broken Superconductors Affect Levitation Distance?
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Graduate How Is Large Scale Sonication Applied in Field Settings?
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Graduate Dielectric Function Explained Physically
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Undergrad Difference between longitudinal and transverse refractive indices
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Graduate States and energy of paired electrons in BCS
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Graduate Can electrons occupy energy levels in the band gap?
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Undergrad Electrons and holes: how can holes have a mass?
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Graduate Energy-dependent cross ection and mean free path
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Graduate Condensed Matter Super-Radiant Phase Transition
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Graduate What does it mean for a plasmon to confine or guide light?
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Graduate Good discussion of experimental data/techniques?
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Graduate What Units Are Used in Solid State Physics Equations?
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Graduate Help with Very High Temperature superconductors (28°C )
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High School What Happens to Atoms When You Tear Paper?
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Undergrad How do electrons move through a conductor
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Undergrad Are BJT transistors voltage or current controlled?
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Graduate Can someone explain why a material that is supposed to be conductive imply?
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Graduate Photoelectric absorption in semiconductors
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High School If an atom was scaled up to the size of a sports oval with a diameter of 150m ?
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Graduate Can High Temperature Superconductivity Reach Room Temperature?
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Undergrad What is the difference between valence and conduction bands in metallic bonding?
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Graduate Energy Diagrams Schottky Barrier Book
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Graduate Fermi level de-pinning & Schottky barrier
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Graduate Understanding Valleys in the Conduction Band
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Graduate Where did the Photons in Polariton Laser came from?
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Graduate How do nodes in orbitals affect energy levels?
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Graduate Aliasing and discrete sinusoids
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Graduate Does Magnetization Decrease Clockwise in a Ferromagnetic Hysteresis Loop?
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Graduate How to Plot a 2D band structure?
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Graduate Superconductivity - speed of light change?
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Graduate How Does Projected Density of State Relate to Resonances and Bond Formation?
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Graduate Mesh Cutoff Energy & Fermi Energy in CNTs
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Graduate BJT(npn) physical operation help
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Undergrad Ultra-Dense Deuterium: Is it Useful for Spacecraft?
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Graduate Why is semiconductor band structure expressed in terms of momentum?
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Graduate The free electron model vs. nearly free electron model.
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Graduate Rare-earth energy levels from LS coupling
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Graduate Why do periodic lattices conduct better
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High School Why do wires get hot as current flows? Is it friction?
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Graduate Optical absorption liquid vs solid
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Undergrad Relationship between light intensity and current
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Graduate Are Nanoparticles Considered Colloidal Systems?
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Graduate How can I shouid write an input file for rutile tio2 in quantom
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Undergrad Is the shape of an atom really spherical or is there more to it?
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Graduate Relation between binding free energy and solubility
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Graduate Creating plasma using thermite?
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Graduate What are the ripples in STM images?
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Graduate Deriving the Phonon Dispersion Relation using Quantum-mechanical approach
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