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Graduate Spinning Superconductor Questions
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Graduate Sideband Cooling: How Does It Bring an Atom From |n+1> to |n>?
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Graduate How Does Multiphoton Momentum Transfer Determine Electron Kinetic Energy?
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Graduate Simulating Gas Expansion: 3 Questions Answered
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High School Help! 50% Helium and 50% Argon in a Sealed Container
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Graduate Fermi energy (in semiconducors) vs. chemical potential
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Graduate Helium-Neon Laser: Meaning of Fast Radiative Transition
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Graduate Now, the Nobel Prize in chemistry is out and it has been given for the
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Graduate Choosing a Software Tool for DFT Analysis: Gaussian09 vs VASP
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Graduate Gummel method solving the n-type semiconductor(Poisson equation)
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Graduate Primitive lattice vectors, reciprocal lattice, wigner seitz cell
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Graduate Mass Spectrometry: How Do Different Masses Have Same Velocity?
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Graduate Why topological insulators are topological?
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Undergrad Can Hydrogen Be Efficiently Stored as a Solid for Vehicle Use?
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Undergrad Process to form elements in quantity
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Graduate In CCD detection is integration better than accumulations
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High School Subatomic Particles: Electrons, Protons & Charges
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Undergrad Curie point for ferromagnetic materials
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Graduate Do hydrogen under high pressure becomes metal/superconductor ? how?
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Graduate Surface recombination velocity of electron
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Graduate Unravelling He-Ne Laser: Questions & Answers
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Graduate All single crystalline anisotropic?
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Graduate Black Body Radiation: Low Intensity at High & Low Frequqs
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Graduate Parity rule for wigner D-matrices
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Undergrad When Do Orbitals Hybridize in Chemistry?
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Graduate Differences between Raman stokes and fluorescence
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Graduate Why Gold is the Reference Element for XPS: XRF & LIBS Alternatives
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Undergrad Properties of Glass: Facts & Misconceptions
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Undergrad 2 slow moving hydrogen atoms - distance to start interaction
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Graduate Regarding calculation of Plasma frequency and static dielectric constant
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Undergrad Understanding Super Diffusion: A Brief Introduction
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Graduate Why different crystal phases have different colours?
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Graduate What is the relationship between Fermi energy and temperature?
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Graduate The molecular field approximation
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Graduate Potential energy curve of Sodium Chloride
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Undergrad What is the basis in crystalline solid structures?
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Graduate What is the Third Spin in Frustrated Magnetics Lattices?
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Graduate How Do Molecular Magnetic Moments Cause Magnetism in Dielectric Crystals?
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Graduate Soliton Theory: Spatial & Temporal Overview
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Undergrad Can Atoms Be Made of Different Fermions?
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Graduate What happens when a co2 molecule absorbs an infra red photon?
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Graduate Does (111) Plane in BCC Cut Center Atom?
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Graduate Are there excitons with spin=0?
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Graduate Deriving the Relationship of Cubic Crystal Structure
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Graduate Monopolar polarization of crystals
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Graduate Model 2D Incompressible Fluid w/ Navier-Stokes Equations
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Graduate What is the fermi energy measured relative to?
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Graduate Smallest Atomic Displacements Ever and quantum foam
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Undergrad How emissions for a spectra provide evidence for energy levels in a atom?
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Graduate Matter waves - Real or Hypothetical?
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Graduate Is the conduction band of metals empty at absolute zero?
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Graduate Visualising atomic orbitals in a unit cell (software for making figures?)
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Undergrad Subatomic vs Gravitational forces
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Undergrad Question about semiconductors' holes.
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Graduate Why Is the Fermi Level Positioned in the Forbidden Gap in Semiconductors?
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Graduate Energy band in K space VS real space
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Graduate Negative absorption peak in FTIR
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How Do Atoms Bond Together and What Forces Are Involved?
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Graduate Josephson Effect: SNS Junction & Self-Generated Current
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Undergrad What is the relationship between Fermi Energy and Electron Density of States?
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Undergrad Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) FTIR peaks
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Graduate What are Octupole correlations?
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Graduate Do particles in a system at absolute zero still have kinetic energy?
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Graduate Periodic Boundary Conditions on non sq lattice
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High School How to keep stable temperature inside an iron container of mm thin
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Graduate Canonical Transformation of the Hubbard Model
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Undergrad Hi why do many dyes who have a conjugated system of delocalized
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Undergrad More detailed spectrum of sodium?
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Graduate Impurity State Green's functions
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Graduate Negative formation energy of a point defect in a solid
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Graduate The Natural Dispersion of Black Holes
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Graduate Why Can't XRF & LIBS Distinguish Element Valences?
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Graduate What is the interpretation of electroluminescence?
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Graduate Polarizability of Fixed Dipole Interactions
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Undergrad Why in periodic table normally we have elements with FCC and HCP structure?
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Graduate Surface Forces-Some Clarification Needed
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Graduate Observing Thermodynamic Phase Transitions Via Neutron Scattering
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Graduate What's the relationship between phonon spectrum and thermal conductivity
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Graduate About field-cooled / zero-field-cooled curves of superparamagnetic particles?
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Graduate K, L, M electron transitions, x-ray emission lines, conflicting information
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Graduate Is possible to use interband transition to design mid-infrared photodetector?
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Graduate Is a Reciprocal Lattice Vector Perpendicular to Its Corresponding Crystal Plane?
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Graduate Conductivity of a metal approaching absolute zero
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Graduate Trying to make a Superconducting tube
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Graduate Problem with NEGF in real space
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Graduate What Is the Definition of Exchange Energy in Quantum Chemistry?
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Graduate Can laser optics provide insight into photon lifetime definitions?
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Graduate Atoms are 'nothing but' space versus 'mostly' space
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Graduate Group velocity and Dispersion Relation
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Graduate How are ultra cold temperatures measured?
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Graduate How to prove there is no primitive cell of diamond structure with only one atom?
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High School Are all atoms considered to be isotopes?
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Graduate Can dielectric constant of semiconductor be calculated or estimated?
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Graduate How Do Band Gaps Arise in Periodic Lattices According to Bloch Theory?
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Graduate How can (220) in bcc diffract?
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Graduate What is a Cross Over? Definition & Effects
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High School Why Do Atoms Bond? Understanding Molecular Bonds
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Graduate Does Impedance Exist in Superconductors Below Their Critical Temperature?
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Graduate Atoms with non-zero nuclear spin
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Graduate Band Bending & Donor Concentration in Semiconductors
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