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Graduate How Are Dressed States Related to AC-Stark Splitting?
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Graduate Why does charge transfer reduce the covalent component of a heteropolar bond?
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Graduate Landau-Zener model & adiabacity
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Graduate Converting between Crystallographic Notations: A Simple Guide
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High School What is the influence of electrostatic on water ?
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Graduate Hydrogen atom in a gravitational field
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Graduate Visualization of a reciprocal lattice
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Graduate Ewald sphere vs Brillouin Zone
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Graduate Where does the energy come from? (superconduction)
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Undergrad Could Graphene Become the Next Silicon?
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Graduate Laser Cooling: Understanding the Limits of Reaching v=0 in Doppler Cooling
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Graduate Energy released when splitting H2
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Graduate Why some metals are not superconductors?
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Graduate Localization of Molecular Orbitals
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Graduate Simple water potential for MD Simulation
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Graduate DLVO interaction: Choice of Hamaker constants
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Graduate Optoelectronic devices what rms linewidth means?
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Graduate How do rotational and vibrational energies in molecules depend on masses?
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Undergrad Free Electron Theory: Majority From d/f Orbitals?
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Graduate Does Pure Water Always Remain a Liquid When Heated Without Nucleation Sites?
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Graduate Silicon: Lattice spacing <111><100> Thermodynamics and Bloch theorem
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Graduate Is there a connection between mass defect and bound energy?
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Graduate Hard disk radial distribution function
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Graduate Closed orbits in hydrogen when exposed to vertical electric field
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Undergrad Why Use Reciprocal Lattice for Band Structure?
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Undergrad What does 'probing a transition' mean?
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Graduate What is the most accurate way to represent the heavy nucleus of an element?
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Graduate Calculate an Integral: Intro to Superconductivity by M. Tinkham
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Graduate Question: Can elements above iron actually be clusters of smaller elements?
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Graduate Wave Vectors of Light vs. Phonons: A Puzzling Paradox
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Graduate Transition of neon from ground state to excited state
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Undergrad We all know that Cv for a monoatomic ideal gas is 3/2 R and when we
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Graduate Spin +1 vs -1: Does Antimatter Spin Differently?
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Graduate Exploring the Heights of K-Alpha and K-Beta Peaks in X-Ray Production
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Searching for L. Vegard & Z. Kristallogr. Papers
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Undergrad What is the isolated spectral line?
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Undergrad Semiconductor Doping: Does Impurity Type Matter?
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Graduate Solid Angle of the Sun Derivation
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Graduate Diffraction on a body centered lattice, h+k+l even?
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Graduate Interpretation of the polarizability
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Graduate Law of mass action involved in impurity level
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Graduate Direct ionization as a result of photoionization- What is the probability?
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Graduate Thermal Motion to Blackbody Radiation Derivation
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Graduate Maxwell-boltzmann distribution on detector
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Undergrad Understanding HCP Crystal Structure: Confusion with Coordinates of Center Atom
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Undergrad What Are Quantum Dots and How Do They Work?
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High School Radioactive Dating Question, Half-Life.
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Graduate Wording of a question confusion.
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Graduate Absorption spectra of molecular hydrogen
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Graduate About the energy bands, fermi levels in PN junctions?
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Graduate MD-Orienting lattice in LAMMPS
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Graduate Charge & Spin Ordering: Explained & Bond Lengths
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Undergrad Why is the product of n0 and po always a constant for a given
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Graduate Count rates from X-ray Fluorescence Spectrum
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Graduate How to model a permanent magnet?
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Graduate Understanding the Cooper Pair in a Box: Questions & Intro
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Graduate Irreversibility temperature in superconductors
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Graduate Creating a CONFIG File for DL_POLY
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Graduate Static dielectric constant of NaCl
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Graduate Entangled Atoms in Salt: Uncovering the Surprising Results of a 2003 Experiment
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Graduate How does an electron lose kinetic energy near an atom's nucleus?
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Graduate Infinite Temperature and its Implications in High Temperature Mechanics
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Graduate Why is high exciton binding energy in ZnO important?
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Graduate Can someone please explain this concept for me? As I understand
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Graduate What is a maxwell construction.?
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Graduate Alpha Decay & Ionization: Modeling an Electron's Tunneling
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Graduate Brillouin zones and the E-k relation
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High School What's smaller than an atom? (Sub-Atomic?)
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Graduate Hartree Fock method for Molecules
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Graduate How to get parameters of interaction between atoms of H2 and C6H6?
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Graduate Are phonon's actually a real particle, or is it a trick of QM?
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Graduate How we measure magnetisation in antiferromagnetics?
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Graduate Perovskites Basics: Finding Good Review Articles
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Graduate Optical Phonons in Single Atom Crystals: Unraveling the Mystery
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Graduate What is the unique design of the Zeeman slower in PRA 71 023409 2005?
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Graduate Powder pattern calculation from single crystal data
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Graduate Wave vector of a polariton mode
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Graduate What are the best solid-state lasers for optical experiments in nano materials?
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Undergrad Why is HCP more common than FCC in elemental compositions?
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Graduate What has bandgap gotta do with binding energy and stability?
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Graduate Can Nonradiative Decay occur for a single atom?
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Graduate Nonlocal electrodynamics of superconductors
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Graduate What are the limitations of magnetisation for S=1/2 systems?
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Graduate Light emitting diodes and Planck's Constant
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High School Do Atoms Get Destroyed When Metal Melts?
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High School Is a hydrogen free radical just a hydrogen atom?
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High School Experiment Proving Electrons Have Same Mass & Charge
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Graduate Distinguishing 1st/2nd Order Phase Transformations in Crystals
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Graduate Autocorrelation of intensity fluctuations
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Graduate Gold & band structure at grazing angle
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Graduate Elastic Scattering: Definition & Explanation
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Undergrad Can water be compressed so much that it freezes?
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Graduate Homodyne Detection and measuring quadratures
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Graduate Why electrons must occupy degenerate orbitals with parallel spins?
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Graduate Excitation of optical branch phonons
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Graduate Electronics properties of C60 molecule
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Graduate Valence electrons and Photonic crystals
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Graduate Optimizing Lattice Parameter (a) for Energy Efficiency and Temperature Control
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Graduate Fermi-Dirac distribution normalization
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Undergrad Plane Indices: An Interesting Debate
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