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Undergrad Plane Indices: An Interesting Debate
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Graduate (im)possibility of a two-level laser
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Graduate Renormalisation in 1D plaquette like ising model.
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Graduate Can Spin Comutation Relations be Simplified by Using Average Spin Values?
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Graduate Classical ground state is Ne\'{e}l state:
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Graduate Interaction of light with matter
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Graduate Two-Pulse Ramsey Spectroscopy: Resources for Niles
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High School Do Atoms Die or Get Old?
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Graduate What is the most scalable qubit candidate for quantum computing?
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Graduate Preparing Atoms in Hyperfine State F=2: Optically Pumping?
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Undergrad Spacing between three dimentional lattice planes
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Graduate Do you know a formula for the integral of a product of 4 spherical harmonics?
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M. Born & J.R. Oppenheimer Ann. Der Phys. 84 Paper: Free Download
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Graduate Dynamic light scattering and coherence of light
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Graduate Phase Transitions Exist Only In the Thermodynamic Limit Or
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Graduate Ginzburg-Landau Parameter for YBCO
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Undergrad Molecular Geometry: Experiment vs Modeling
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Undergrad Difference between effective area and actual area
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Graduate Example for a quantum anomaly from solid state phys?
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Graduate First Brillouin Zone: Unravelling Why [-pi/a,pi/a)
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Graduate What Differentiates Spin Liquids from Spin Solids and Spin Glasses?
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Graduate How can something like superfluidity exist between atoms
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Undergrad How does refraction of light work
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Graduate Where Does the Second Term in the Pressure Equation for an Ideal Gas Come From?
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Graduate How Does the Grand Partition Function Apply to Electron Occupancy in Defects?
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Undergrad Is a eutectic alloy always stronger than a hypo or hyper eutectic one?
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Graduate Electrons with in the forbidden gap
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Graduate Why filled shell of electrons has L=0 and S=0?
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Undergrad Hybridization of atomic orbitals
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Undergrad Do we know exactly what the atom looks like?
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Graduate Ginzburg Criterion: Why Choose Volumes of Correlation Length?
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Graduate Orbital angular momentum of O2
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Graduate Pascal Triangle diagonal numbers
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Graduate X-ray absorption spectroscopy - fine edge structure
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Undergrad Binary phase diagrams - understanding the eutectic point
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Undergrad PN-junctions: is the voltage measurable? Closed circuit?
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Graduate What's Wrong With Landau's Theory of Phase Transitions
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Graduate Exploring Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics for Electrons in Metals
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Graduate YBCO & Maglev Trains: Superconductor Properties & Levitation
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Graduate Bond length and bond angle (quant)
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Graduate Atomic Vibration: Proving & Testing Theory
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Graduate What are the crystallographically equivalent sites in a crystal unit cell?
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Graduate How Is the Volume of an Element in K-Space Determined?
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Graduate How Does the Lindemann Constant Influence Melting Points in Solids?
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Graduate Understanding the Concept of Entropic Force in Ideal Chains
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Undergrad Atom Vibration in Solids: 3D Pattern
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Graduate Ques. on high symm points of a crystal
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Graduate Self consistent method for eigenvalues
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Graduate Molecular Dynamics: Classical vs Non-Classical
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Undergrad Ionization of Air with a Laser
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Graduate About small displacement method for phonons
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Undergrad Advantages of four probe method
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Graduate Computational Path Integration
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Graduate What is the Quantum Perspective on Latent Heat and Phase Changes?
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Graduate Quick Fermi Energy QuestionFree electrons?
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Graduate Understand Infrared Absorption & Vibrational Frequencies
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Graduate Scanning Electron Microscope Scanning Coils Kapton
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Undergrad Energy band gap of semiconductors
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Undergrad Difference between Bragg and Laue Diffraction?
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Graduate Speed of Light in Media: Why Does It Vary?
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Graduate Understanding Ortho- and Para- Water: Explaining the Physics behind Ka+Kc+v3
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Graduate Definition of Heisenberg Hamiltonian
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Graduate Data/Model for Tait Equation of State (Liquids)
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Undergrad What role does doping play in creating n-type and p-type semiconductors?
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Graduate What is the definition of Lorentz factor?
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Graduate Laser power in optical tweezers
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Undergrad Understanding Atomic Units for Beginner Mathematicians
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Graduate Superconductors: How to Initiate and Maintain a Current | Explained
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Graduate BEC and electrons PLEASE I BEG U ANSWER
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Undergrad Molecular Bonding: Questions & Answers
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Graduate Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering vs. Second Harmonic Generation
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High School What holds solid matter together?
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Graduate Matrix elements in photoemission
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Graduate Calculating maximum amplitude of atomic vibrations
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Graduate Electrons diffraction in crystals
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Graduate What Determines Bonding Energy in Atomic Systems?
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High School Classifying Solids: Metals, Semi-Metals & Semiconductors
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Graduate Conductivity from path integral and Kubo formlism
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Graduate Complex Monte Carlo Integration
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Graduate Bonding and Antibonding(metals insulators)
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High School Which term, electricity or electron, was coined first?
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Graduate Electron Effective Mass and Effective Mass Theory in Semiconductors
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Undergrad What is the difference between Spintronics and GMR Effect?
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Undergrad The possible lightest material
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High School Transition states between matter
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Graduate I've read that ferromagnetism is a quantum mechanical phenomenon and
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Graduate High Temperature Superconductivity
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Graduate Can someone explain how spin allows elctrons to pair
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Graduate Why is a laser considered monochromatic due to Fabry-Perot cavities?
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Graduate Introduction to order parameter fields
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Graduate Calculating Phonon Dispersion from 2D Hamiltonian
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Graduate How Does Potential Difference Relate to Electron or Ion Energy in Plasma?
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Undergrad Raman Spectroscopy: Understanding Intensity & Wave Number Peaks
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Graduate Fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy
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Graduate What are the charged vacancies
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Graduate Curie Temperature: Determining Critical Point & Lattice Changes
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Graduate Is the Energy Band of Wood vs Crystals similar?
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Graduate Fermi Surface Instability in Solid States: Explained
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Graduate Translated Russian papers (i.e. paper of Gor'kov)
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