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Tight Binding Model: Reference Book for Band Structure
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Indirect/direct semiconductors
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Rydberg States Exhibiting Quantum Defect?
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What's the Difference Between Ordinary and Degenerate Semiconductors?
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Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNTFET) Biosensor
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Hartree-Fock on a single Oxygen atom
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Nuclear Atomic Model: Definition & Overview
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Question on universailty classes
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How do you calculate the lattice parameters c and a of Hexagonal ZnO
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I don't understand how HCl is not a ionic bond.
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How does atomic structure relate to how well things share energy.
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Do more energetic orbitals have wider bands in crystals?
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Solidified gases and Bloch functions.
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Why do some molecules separate under extreme heat?
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What is the value of the band gap in a good conductor
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Are Feynman's Equations on Superconductivity Valid?
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How to Determine the Magnetic Field from Sodium's D Line Splitting?
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Coupling of angular momenta of many-electron atom
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Valance and conduction band in solid.
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Why do solids stay hotter longer than other states?
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About Achieving self-consistency in solving KS equation
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How to determine band structure (E(k)) of a one dimensional crystal?
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Why are critical phenomena important in physics?
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How can light cause atoms to oscillate without being absorbed?
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Kinetic Energy of 3D Fermi Gas at Absolute Zero
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What's special about the point group 432?
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Creating Patterns with Atoms: Can We Do It?
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Is it possible ( term symbols )
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How Do You Ensure Only Fe3+ Ions Are Implanted in a Target?
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Electrons moving due to a field
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Why Do Textbooks Still Use Bohr's Atomic Theory Despite Its Limitations?
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Understanding the Presence of Vacancies in Crystal Lattices
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About domain theory of ferro magnetism
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Understanding eg and t2g Symmetry in DOS Graphics
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Finding High Symmetry Points for Wurtzite Structure with 12 Atoms
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Packaged software for alloys, pwscf code (quantum espresso)
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Fluctuation Terms in Landau Theory
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Fine structure of X-Ray transition
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Understanding Electron Attraction in HTSC Superconductors
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Is the Spin of Electrons Aligned Opposite to Net Magnetization in Ferromagnets?
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Why the crystal momentum k in 2D band structure is defined on a torus?
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Determining Shape of Molecules: Water Example
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How do atoms behave in a solid state?
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Doubt on Band Theory of Solids: Can It Explain Electron Movement?
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Explaining Bonding & Mass in Chemical Reactions
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Why Does Inhomogeneous Media Saturate More Slowly in Laser Technology?
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Determine the dissociation energy with an electron beam
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Another Raman spectrum question
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Does an Electron in a Ground State S Orbital Cease to Orbit the Nucleus?
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How to make wigner-seitz cell(BCC, FCC)-using paper
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Calc. Elec. Band Structure of Semicond. Alloys w/ Quantum Espresso
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Basic issue for graphene sheet
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Ising Model & Wolff's algorithm in FORTRAN
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Configuration Interaction
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Debye Model of Solids: Questions & Answers
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Photonic band gaps: Incomplete vs complete
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About the quasi-harmonic free energy
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Why are some elements conductors and magnetic, while others are not?
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Transverse and Longitudinal Sound Waves
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Does Einsteins coefficient for spontaneous emission depend on energy difference?
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Planes of simple cubic structure and X-ray diffraction experiment
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Understanding the Physical Meaning of Bloch State Wave Vector in Electrons
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Can gas density be permanently altered and what influences it?
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Why QFT in condensed matter physics?
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Gaussian basis set in DFT calculation
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Understanding L2M2M3 Auger Process
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Positron creation in semiconductors?
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Spectroscopic term of ground state electron configuration of Carbon atom
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How is the microscopic crystal structure visible?
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Does Higher Young Modulus Indicate Increased Rigidity in Solids?
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First time posting- M state metals
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Allowed Transition from 2s^2 to 2p^2 in Hydrogen: Why is it Missing?
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Why Don't Atom Forces Follow Inverse Square Law? Help Needed!
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Why are there only seven crystal systems and not 11
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Rust and Reflection: The Optical Properties of Oxidized Steel
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Can You Share Information on Raman Spectroscopy for Graphene?
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Modulo Z2 Invariant: What is it?
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Calculation of Magnetic susceptibility
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Question about depletion layer
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KRUGERLBM Shear Stress: Kruger Research Material
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How is the Fermi Level Formed in Compound Semiconductors Like GaN and GaAs?
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Molar Mass of Graphene and its strength
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Photon interaction cross section? What?
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The absorption of a linearly polarized photon.
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Fermi dirac distribution at T->0
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Electron Orbitals motion patterns
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Can Orbital Magnetic Moments Exist with Zero Angular Momentum in P-Orbitals?
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Electrons bound to the nucleus/ Bohr hypothosis
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Linear thermal expansion, theoretical instead of experimental
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What kind of bosons can have Bose-Einstein Condensation?
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Light source at liquid nitrogen temps
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What does Sn(alpha) mean? Does it have anything to do with Miller
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Child's Law and Thermionic Emission
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X-ray diffraction for 2-D crystal
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Fabrication and characterization of hetrojunction:
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Wavelength and Extinction Coefficients
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Overlap integrals in chemical molecules
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What is the definition of electron affinity in solids?
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Proving That Copper Is Cooler Than Room Temp
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Unit cell dimensions of crystal structure
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