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Graduate Cubic and monolayer difference
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Graduate Calculation of dipole and quadrupole momentum of CO
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High School Assistance finding the nuclear energy difference during nuclear fusion
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Graduate Power induced shift in rotational transitions for a diatomic molecule
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Graduate Numerical Hartree Fock with Finite Difference Matrices for Helium
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Graduate Order parameter, symmetry breaking Landau style
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Undergrad Spin and wavefunction of excitons
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Graduate Bloch momentum-space wave functions
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Undergrad Combination differences with spin
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Undergrad Is the Spin-Rotation Constant Always Positive in Diatomic Molecules?
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Undergrad Can Ablation of Materials Neutralize In-Flight Atomic Beams?
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Graduate Einstein's coefficients recoil effect
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Graduate The main charge carrier in the ionic crystal is polaron or conduction?
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High School Field distribution in semiconductors
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Undergrad Question about Electronic Band Structure
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Undergrad What Keeps the Electrons and Ions Mixed in a White Dwarf?
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Graduate Can a Solid Vibrate at Debye Max Frequency?
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Undergrad Action of a symmetry operation on a Bloch state
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Graduate Is the Universe neutrally charged?
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Graduate Quantum computing with superconductors
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Graduate Lennard-Jones for bound/unbound atoms?
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Graduate What is the Structure of Gallium Oxide?
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Undergrad How Do Ashcroft and Mermin Derive the Conversion from Equation 22.6 to 22.9?
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Graduate Ground state of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Ising model
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Graduate Why low temperature is better in many precision experiments?
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Graduate Question about chiral molecules
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Undergrad Why X-ray scattering in crystalline solids is elastic?
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Undergrad Theory of fluctuations in disordered systems
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Graduate Define spin operators for numerical groundstate obtained by ED
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Undergrad What are the 230 space groups in solid state physics?
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Undergrad Question about the Bohr model of atom and and electron in an orbital
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Undergrad Chemical potential and Fermi level
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Undergrad Fermi energy definition and Fermi-Dirac distribution
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Undergrad What is the Meaning of the Fermi Energy?
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Graduate How Can Molecular Beams Be Slowed and Neutralized for MOT Trapping?
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Undergrad A problem with a figure related to band theory
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Graduate Experiments with diatomic molecules
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Graduate Mode Matching a Cavity: Best Practices Explained
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High School Electrostatic charge build up in environmental electron microscopy
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Graduate Interatomic distance in diatomic molecules
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Graduate New model for superconductivity
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High School Is it the nucleus or a proton at the center?
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High School Are BEC vortex lattices individual atoms?
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Graduate Vibrations in building a cavity
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Graduate Can Quantum Logic Techniques Be Applied to Complex Molecular Ions?
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Undergrad Quantum logic spectroscopy in a quadrupole trap
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High School Fusing Neutrons: Can It Lead to Cold Fusion?
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Undergrad Sp3 hybridization azimuthal quantum number
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Undergrad Another question from Ashcroft and Mermin: Fermi-Dirac Distribution
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Undergrad Topological question from Ashcroft-Mermin
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Graduate Cooper pairs in a band diagram
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Graduate Phase diagram of Carbon at large electric fields.
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Graduate Does strain affect on-site energy?
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High School Why are absorption spectra continuous?
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Undergrad Argon or Dry N2 for venting a small Ultra High Vacuum chamber
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Graduate Solve Troesch's Equation: Numerical Technique & Derivation
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Graduate Question about aligning a cavity
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Graduate Measuring new forces with molecular vibrations
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Undergrad Classical/empirical potential for electron-ion interactions
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Undergrad Vibrational cooling of a molecule
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Graduate Berry phase in condensed matter
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Graduate A question about T-matrix in two-body scattering
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Undergrad Question about a Servo setup (locking a laser to a cavity)
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Undergrad How Is the Dynamical Matrix Used to Calculate the Phonon Spectrum of Graphene?
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Undergrad Laser cooling in a Penning trap
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Undergrad Are permittivity and permeability quantities that can be predicted?
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Undergrad Dipole moment of Rydberg states
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Undergrad Has the Fermi-Dirac Integral been solved?
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Undergrad Effective molecular Hamiltonian and Hund cases
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Undergrad How to measure a 10 Hz energy splitting of two energy levels
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Undergrad Defect concentration formula w/o Stirling approximation
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Undergrad Valence and conduction bands in five band Hamiltonian
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Undergrad What is the relation between scattering and mobility in solid state physics?
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Graduate Typical binding energies of sigma-orbitals
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Undergrad Gap between introductory physics & solid state physics?
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Undergrad Van der Waals attractive force: Why don't the imbalances average out?
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Graduate What Superconductor Can Have The Highest Magnetic Field Strength?
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Graduate Rippling Graphene Harvests Thermal Energy?
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Undergrad Smallest energy we can measure
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Graduate Search for CPT violation with protons/antiprotons using quantum logic
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Undergrad Can Having Electrons in Energy Levels Indicate Ionisation of Atoms?
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Undergrad What Happens to Energy When Phonons are Damped?
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Undergrad Nuclear size effect on isotope shift
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Graduate 1D transverse-field Ising model - classical vs quantum differences?
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Undergrad Spin-Orbit Coupling & Isotope Shift
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Undergrad A large normal atom, but with a muon in its outer shell?
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Graduate High-energy tail of H electron momentum distribution? 1/p^6?
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Undergrad How do Cooper pairs carry a current with zero net-momentum?
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Undergrad Silicon FCC -- Why are so many atoms shown in the lattice?
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Graduate About pair production using light
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Graduate Properties of Degenerate Electron Gas
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Graduate The difference between the binding of molecules and superconductors
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Undergrad High energy beta particles (6 to 22 MeV)
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Undergrad What happens to the electrons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate?
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Undergrad Attosecond chronoscopy - what happens during attosecod-scale delays?
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Undergrad What happens to atoms in far detuned states?
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Undergrad Less known electric/magnetic interactions with light
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Undergrad What is the size and shape of single optical photon?
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Graduate Ising model open chain and periodic boundary conditions
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Undergrad Two-site "tight-binding model"
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