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Atomic and Condensed Matter Forum

Join in expert discussion on atomic and condensed matter. Methods for atoms, molecules, condensed matter. This includes the structure of the atom, its energy states, and its interactions.

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Bonding and Antibonding(metals insulators)

Mar 5, 2011 · Replies 6 · Mar 9, 2011

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Which term, electricity or electron, was coined first?

Mar 8, 2011 · Replies 1 · Mar 8, 2011

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Electron Effective Mass and Effective Mass Theory in Semiconductors

Feb 28, 2011 · Replies 3 · Mar 8, 2011

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What is the difference between Spintronics and GMR Effect?

Feb 20, 2011 · Replies 5 · Mar 8, 2011

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The possible lightest material

Mar 2, 2011 · Replies 7 · Mar 7, 2011

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Transition states between matter

Mar 4, 2011 · Replies 6 · Mar 7, 2011

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I've read that ferromagnetism is a quantum mechanical phenomenon and

Feb 18, 2011 · Replies 12 · Mar 7, 2011

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High Temperature Superconductivity

Feb 26, 2011 · Replies 10 · Mar 7, 2011

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Can someone explain how spin allows elctrons to pair

Mar 5, 2011 · Replies 1 · Mar 5, 2011

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Why is a laser considered monochromatic due to Fabry-Perot cavities?

Feb 28, 2011 · Replies 11 · Mar 5, 2011

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Introduction to order parameter fields

Mar 3, 2011 · Replies 4 · Mar 3, 2011

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Calculating Phonon Dispersion from 2D Hamiltonian

Feb 22, 2011 · Replies 1 · Mar 3, 2011

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How Does Potential Difference Relate to Electron or Ion Energy in Plasma?

Feb 27, 2011 · Replies 4 · Mar 3, 2011

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Raman Spectroscopy: Understanding Intensity & Wave Number Peaks

Mar 1, 2011 · Replies 2 · Mar 3, 2011

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Fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy

Mar 2, 2011 · Replies 1 · Mar 3, 2011

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What are the charged vacancies

Nov 7, 2010 · Replies 8 · Mar 2, 2011

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Curie Temperature: Determining Critical Point & Lattice Changes

Mar 1, 2011 · Replies 1 · Mar 2, 2011

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Is the Energy Band of Wood vs Crystals similar?

Feb 25, 2011 · Replies 3 · Mar 2, 2011

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Fermi Surface Instability in Solid States: Explained

Apr 28, 2010 · Replies 11 · Mar 1, 2011

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Translated Russian papers (i.e. paper of Gor'kov)

Feb 26, 2011 · Replies 5 · Mar 1, 2011

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Why do most solids have periodic structure ?

Feb 21, 2011 · Replies 2 · Mar 1, 2011

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Pulsed NMR: T1 and T2 Relaxation Times of Curing Epoxy

Feb 27, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 28, 2011

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Homonuclear diatomic molecules spectrum

Feb 24, 2011 · Replies 2 · Feb 27, 2011

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Understanding Hybrid Orbitals and MO Theory in Chemical Bonding

Feb 25, 2011 · Replies 8 · Feb 27, 2011

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Topological Insulator : Edge states

Feb 24, 2011 · Replies 4 · Feb 26, 2011

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Are electrons in Valence band delocalized?

Feb 23, 2011 · Replies 15 · Feb 25, 2011

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SAXSess from Anton Paar (Small angle x-ray scattering camera)

Jan 10, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 24, 2011

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Is the hydrogen molecule bonding really covalent?

Feb 23, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 24, 2011

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Hubbard model of graphene in high U limit

Feb 23, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 24, 2011

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Entropy of diamond and graphite at 0K

Feb 19, 2011 · Replies 16 · Feb 24, 2011

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Forbidden gap in semiconductors.

Nov 3, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 23, 2011

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Understanding J Splitting in XPS

Feb 20, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 21, 2011

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Reference for diamagnetic vs paramagnetic

Feb 20, 2011 · Replies 4 · Feb 21, 2011

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Reducing intensity of xenon lamp

Feb 16, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 18, 2011

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How Can Optical Devices Like QWP and HWP Determine the Polarization of Light?

Feb 18, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 18, 2011

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Tight binding hamiltonian matrix

Feb 17, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 17, 2011

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What Does 'Superconducting Instability' Mean?

Feb 17, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 17, 2011

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What does the ratio c/a mean in solid state phyiscs

Feb 16, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 17, 2011

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Understanding the Tight-Binding Hamiltonian for Carbon Dimers

Dec 9, 2009 · Replies 4 · Feb 16, 2011

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EM response function of the Phase Action of a BCS superconductor

Feb 14, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 15, 2011

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Averaging over random potential of impurities

Feb 14, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 14, 2011

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Hexagonal lattice in reciprocal space

Feb 14, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 14, 2011

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Bravais lattices and lattices with a basis

Feb 12, 2011 · Replies 6 · Feb 14, 2011

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What is the Virial Theorem and its significance in Atomic Physics?

Feb 1, 2011 · Replies 8 · Feb 13, 2011

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Can anyone tell me about how to use the local density approximation in

Jun 14, 2010 · Replies 2 · Feb 13, 2011

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Hi,Is it fair to say that magnetism rises from the fact that there

Feb 10, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 12, 2011

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Why Are Subatomic Particles Best Detected Under Ice?

Feb 12, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 12, 2011

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Determining Exposure Times for Spectrographic Film

Feb 9, 2011 · Replies 2 · Feb 12, 2011

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Understanding the Differences Between Ising and Heisenberg Models

Jul 30, 2008 · Replies 8 · Feb 12, 2011

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Is the First Brillouin Zone Unique Despite Non-Unique Primitive Vectors?

Feb 11, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 11, 2011

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Plotting Charge Density in 3D: Can My Data Be Formatted as an XYZ File?

Feb 11, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 11, 2011

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Imaginary Part of Dielectric function

Feb 7, 2011 · Replies 10 · Feb 11, 2011

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Energy of Electron: Jumping to Higher States

Feb 10, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 11, 2011

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Semiconductors: charge neutrality

Jan 27, 2011 · Replies 6 · Feb 10, 2011

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Why is the exchange interaction isotropic in a simple system of 2 electrons?

Feb 10, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 10, 2011

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Why Do Nanoparticles Use Metals Like Gold & Silver?

Feb 6, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 9, 2011

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How the x-ray diffractometer caculate the lattice constant or miller indices?

Jan 31, 2011 · Replies 5 · Feb 9, 2011

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Band diagram of pn-junction diode at low temperature

Feb 8, 2011 · Replies 5 · Feb 8, 2011

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Metastable deep defect in semiconductors

Feb 7, 2011 · Replies 8 · Feb 8, 2011

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U(1) symmetry breaking within the superluid phase

Feb 7, 2011 · Replies 5 · Feb 8, 2011

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Energy bands diagram in semiconductors

Feb 8, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 8, 2011

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Optimizing Focal Plane Alignment for Optical Tweezers for Researchers

Nov 5, 2010 · Replies 40 · Feb 8, 2011

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A tight biinding calcualtion of graphene like structure

Dec 30, 2010 · Replies 2 · Feb 8, 2011

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Can Singlets Be Shared in Valence Bond Solid States?

Jan 14, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 7, 2011

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Why Can't P-N Junction Connected Series Act as a P-N-P Transistor?

Feb 6, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 7, 2011

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Density of states in a quantum well

Jan 6, 2011 · Replies 8 · Feb 6, 2011

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Had computational Physics today successfully modelled any reaction in chemistry?

Feb 3, 2011 · Replies 6 · Feb 6, 2011

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Rf Plasma Simulation for material processing

Feb 6, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 6, 2011

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How far is quantum computing from reality?

Feb 3, 2011 · Replies 5 · Feb 5, 2011

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What are the Different Approaches for DFT and How Do I Choose the Right One?

Feb 4, 2011 · Replies 4 · Feb 5, 2011

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Raman Spectroscopy graph question

Apr 27, 2010 · Replies 5 · Feb 5, 2011

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What Are the Practical Uses of Band Gaps and Free Carrier Absorption?

Jun 23, 2010 · Replies 10 · Feb 4, 2011

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Finding Bond Lengths: A Physicist's Guide

Feb 2, 2011 · Replies 2 · Feb 3, 2011

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Could Molybdenite Replace Silicon?

Jan 30, 2011 · Replies 7 · Feb 3, 2011

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Derivation of the atomic form factor

Feb 1, 2011 · Replies 1 · Feb 1, 2011

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Electron Hole Pair: How Does Charge Conservation Apply?

Jan 31, 2011 · Replies 2 · Feb 1, 2011

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Dynamics of electron in crystal lattice

Jan 31, 2011 · Replies 3 · Feb 1, 2011

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Why cant a component of binary solution ever be 100%

Jan 30, 2011 · Replies 4 · Feb 1, 2011

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Why is the Raman spectrum for iron oxide not showing a signal?

Jan 29, 2011 · Replies 4 · Jan 30, 2011

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Problem: Cartesian tensor to Spherical Tensor

Jan 28, 2011 · Replies 3 · Jan 28, 2011

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X-Ray Diffraction: Single Crystal Peak?

Jan 14, 2011 · Replies 2 · Jan 28, 2011

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Strained PbTe Shows Strong Thermoelectric Properties

Jan 24, 2011 · Replies 1 · Jan 28, 2011

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Why water boils at higher temperature at higher pressure

Jan 15, 2011 · Replies 7 · Jan 27, 2011

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How do you analyze interactions in K-space with vector $\rho$ and planes m ± 2?

Jan 25, 2011 · Replies 2 · Jan 27, 2011

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Semiconductor Carrier Concentration Basics

Jan 24, 2011 · Replies 2 · Jan 26, 2011

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Ohmic junction in Cat's-whisker detector

Jan 24, 2011 · Replies 2 · Jan 26, 2011

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Why do high frequency states get less energy?

Nov 1, 2004 · Replies 1 · Jan 26, 2011

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Hyperfine Splitting the same as Polarization?

Jan 25, 2011 · Replies 3 · Jan 25, 2011

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Is Bose-Einstein Condensation a First-Order Phase Transition?

Jan 24, 2011 · Replies 1 · Jan 25, 2011

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Understanding Electron Probability: How Wave Function Squared Gives Us Answers

Jan 24, 2011 · Replies 1 · Jan 25, 2011

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Looking for particular Diatomic Molecular Constants

Jan 24, 2011 · Replies 2 · Jan 24, 2011

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Bravais latices and crystalographic group

Jan 24, 2011 · Replies 1 · Jan 24, 2011

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Trying to understand the Brillouin zone

Jan 22, 2011 · Replies 1 · Jan 24, 2011

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Is this free energy possible ?

Jan 20, 2011 · Replies 10 · Jan 23, 2011

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Semiconducor devices Versus conductors

Jan 20, 2011 · Replies 7 · Jan 23, 2011

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I don't understand photodiodes?

Jan 21, 2011 · Replies 3 · Jan 22, 2011

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Neutronium/neutron-degenerate matter: critical mass for stability?

Jan 21, 2011 · Replies 1 · Jan 22, 2011

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What is the optimal basis set for a full CI calculation of low Z elements?

Jan 21, 2011 · Replies 6 · Jan 21, 2011

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What is the spectrum of a plasma outside the visible range?

Jan 21, 2011 · Replies 2 · Jan 21, 2011

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What is the difference between space and point groups?

Jan 21, 2011 · Replies 2 · Jan 21, 2011

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Atomic and Condensed Matter

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Atomic and condensed matter physics are two closely related branches of physics. Atomic physics focuses on the study of atoms, investigating their structure, behavior, and interactions with electromagnetic radiation.

It delves into phenomena such as atomic spectra, quantum states, and atomic transitions. Condensed matter physics, on the other hand, extends these principles to study the properties and behaviors of solid and liquid matter in bulk, dealing with materials like metals, semiconductors, and liquids.

This field explores concepts such as phase transitions, crystal structures, and electronic properties of condensed phases. Both atomic and condensed matter physics contribute significantly to our understanding of the fundamental properties of matter and find applications in various technological advancements and material science.

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