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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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Graduate How Can Beginners Start Computational Modeling in Heterogeneous Catalysis?
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Graduate Can the Matrix Element of a+a^+ be Suppressed in Resonance Raman Measurements?
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Graduate Degrees of freedom and triatomic gas
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Graduate Regions in the electronic band structure
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Quantum Fluids: A Look into Superfluidity Theory
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Graduate Molecular Dynamics simulations Surface interaction energy
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Graduate Diffraction pattern to crystal structure
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Graduate Metals and free electron capture
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Graduate Single Axial Mode And Spectral Hole Burning
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Graduate Debye's Assumptions For Heat Capacity
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Graduate Phonon and dispersion relation
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Graduate Excitons bound to neutral impurities
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Graduate What if atoms obeyed an inverse-cubed law
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Popular Science Book on Condensed Matter/Semiconductors/ etc.
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Graduate Bragg condition reflection vs. diffraction
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Graduate How do surface currents differ between a superconductor and normal conductor?
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Graduate Why Do Pendry's Cloaking Equations Differ in My Calculations?
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Graduate Force required to break the atomic bond
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Undergrad Electronic Band Structure, Ionization Energy
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Undergrad D spacing from X-ray diffraction data
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Undergrad Why are most of the ionic crystals Diamagnetism
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Undergrad What is the Mean Free Path of water in it's liquid state?
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Undergrad Electron drift speed in metals
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Undergrad What Are the Key Differences Between Quantum and Classical Effects in Physics?
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Graduate Number of atoms in FCC gold cube
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Undergrad Conductors and their increase of resistance with temperature
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Graduate Back gating of Metal/Semiconductor junction
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Undergrad Chemistry Bonding: Why Are Atoms Bonded?
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Undergrad XRD Data Assistance: Miller Indices | Help with YBCO
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Undergrad Metals: Understand Nickel Electrons & Nuclei
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High School Where Are Neutrinos Located in Atoms?
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Graduate Reciprocal Lattice: X-Ray Diffraction Explained
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Graduate Standard Benchmark Problem for Computational Solution of Poisson Equation
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High School Fluorescence Blinking: Definition & Overview
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Graduate Multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock Method
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Undergrad PV Diagram of a monoatomic gas and diatomic gas
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Graduate Difference between dispersive medium and non-dispersive medium.
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Graduate Error in Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena by Shang-Keng Ma
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Undergrad Graphene super strong but not graphite?
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Graduate Electron wavefunctions in semiconductors
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Graduate Atoms made of different Quarks
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Undergrad Molecular Orbital energy levels
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Undergrad Colour of inox steel surface upon heating
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Undergrad Band structure and fermi surface of copper
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Undergrad Calculating NIR Path Length for Gas Absorption Analysis
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Graduate How to Identify Phases and Miller Indices in XRD Data?
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Undergrad The Mystery of the Mass of a Vacancy
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Graduate Frequency distribution not determined by the temporal variation of the pulse?
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High School Can the size of an atom change?
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Graduate What is the NASA Patent for Producing Heavy Electrons?
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Graduate Dynamics of Contracted Atoms, Molecules, etc.
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Graduate Statistical Mechanics - Maximum Temperature
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Graduate What Factors Influence the Band Gap Size of Elements?
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Undergrad Semiconductors - role of displaced Silicon or Germanium
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Undergrad Quauntum mechanics, what is it
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Graduate Conceptual question on electron flow between two types of resistors
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High School How Can a High School Student Learn About Superconductors?
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Graduate Order parameter in quasicrystals
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Graduate Solving the Confusing Units Issue in Atomic Energy V(R)
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Graduate Superfluidity & BEC: Connected Phenomena
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Graduate Crystal Diffraction: The Mystery of (1 1 1) Plane in Lattice SC, BCC, and FCC
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Graduate Optical Properties: DFT, Pseudopotential, Plasma Frequency, Transmission
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Graduate Constructing a hall effect transducer
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Graduate Type 1 Superconductors & Static B field density
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Graduate What's the recoil energy in optical lattice?
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Graduate Stark effect, mixing state of 2s and 2p
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Graduate BEC Help: Annihilation & Creation Operators, S Wave Scattering
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Graduate XRD FWHM, debye-scherrer's formula & AFM surface morphology
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Undergrad Band diagram of intrinsic semiconductors
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Undergrad I am buying a laser diode but cant understand some parameters
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Undergrad Are superconductors dia magnetic materials?
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Graduate What Triggers Electron-Hole Recombination in Semiconductors?
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Graduate What is k in E-k Diagrams of Semiconductors?
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Undergrad What happens when you connect a ptype semiconductor to a metal conductor?
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Graduate Waves in periodic structures - Coupling of evanescent waves to propagating waves
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Graduate SRH and radiative recombination
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Graduate Discovering thickness of a thin film.
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Graduate Index Refraction: Transparent Bulk Matter?
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Undergrad Does Thin Film Thickness Impact XRD Results?
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Graduate Unconventional Superconductors: Explaining Beyond BCS Theory
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Graduate Planewave cutoff energy convergence
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Graduate Converging your DFT calculations
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Graduate An experiment with atomic clocks
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Graduate Understanding the Absence of [001] Diffraction Peak in X-Ray Diffraction
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Undergrad Direction of propagation of wave
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Graduate Infrared absorption spectrum of CO2 at 4,3 µm
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Graduate Absorption Lines from discrete energy
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Graduate What is the quality of Kruer's book on laser plasma interactions?
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Graduate Does the Magnetic Field Affect the Dielectric Constant in the Lorentz Model?
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Graduate Magnetization above Curie Temperature
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Undergrad Diffusion coefficient in diffusion equation and random walk ?
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High School Finding Atomic Mass: How Scientists Like Mendeleev Determined it
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Graduate Why Does FCC's Reciprocal Lattice Cube Side Equal 4π/a?
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Undergrad Depletion Layers in pn junction
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Graduate Can Optical Tweezers Manipulate Conducting Microscopic Particles?
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Graduate Bloch wavepackets and the Pauli exclusion principle
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Graduate Fermi level, band structure of solids, and effect on electrical conduction
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Graduate Understanding the Singlet State of Cooper Pairs in Conventional Superconductors
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