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Undergrad PN-junction Breakdown: Sudden Increase in Reverse Current

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Undergrad Why is CO2 liquid less dense than CO2 solid

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Undergrad Why do doped semiconductors have majority carriers?

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Graduate Spin-orbit Hamiltonian in tight-binding

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Graduate In semiconductors, can phonons create excitons?

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Graduate Surface definition in crystals question

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High School What is net polarization?

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High School I'm sure deposition is a change from a gas to a solid.

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Graduate What is particle-hole symmetry?

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Graduate Why Do Photons Have Zero Chemical Potential?

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Graduate How to determine Chemical potential

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Graduate X-ray absorption by semiconductors

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Undergrad Can Liquid Nitrogen Really Overclock a Processor to 6 GHz?

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Graduate Rewriting operator sum with momentum shift

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Graduate Band gap in graphene with one boron and one nitrogen atom per unit cell

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Graduate Bogoliubov Theory of weakly interacting Bose gas

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Graduate Neel Temperature: Is Magnetisation Equal to Zero?

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Graduate Why do silicon wafers and silicon diodes have similar VI and CV characteristics?

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Undergrad Characteristic X-rays: Direction of Emission?

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Graduate Graphene ribbon and Landau Energy Bands of Graphite

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Undergrad Decay Method and Time of Nucleus

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Graduate About the order parameter in antiferromagnetism

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Graduate How Does ARPES Measure the Lifetime of Injected Photo Holes?

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Graduate What do we mean by broken symmetries when referring to superfluid he3 phases?

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Graduate Hafnia / Zirconia polymorphs as a function of T

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Graduate Are there free electrons in the valence band?

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High School Physical state of water at 80 degrees C on the upswing or downswing of boiling.

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Undergrad Does ionisation energy depend on electronegativity?

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Graduate How to evaluate the strain-induced change in reciprocal space?

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Graduate Tight Binding calculation of band structure

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Undergrad [semiconduction] Does reverse bias decrease depletion region?

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Graduate H problem in statistical mechanics

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Graduate What determines a system to experience crossover or phase transition?

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Graduate How long is an electron transition ?

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Graduate Solid state physics and chemistry

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Graduate Magnetic property of Molecules

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Graduate Can electromagnetic radiation shake the nucleus and electron shell apart?

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Graduate Finding STO3G Parameters for H,He,C,N,O

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Graduate Raman Spectroscopy Exposure Time

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Graduate Average total energy of electron and proton in isolated hydrogen atom

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Graduate Relativistic effects at small temperatures

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Graduate Laplace transform of the grand canonical partition function

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Graduate Hartree-Fock Questions Answers

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Graduate What affects electron mobility in semiconductors and metals?

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Graduate Atomic radius by dimensional analysis

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Graduate Is energy shift from perturbation theory equal to work done by external force?

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Graduate Conduction and valence band for metals

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Graduate How to show all Brillouin zones have same volume

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Graduate Does the jellium model work with finite confinement?

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Graduate Bogoliubov transformation 3-mode

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Graduate How to calculate the lattice sums of BCC?

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Graduate Current CMP Research: What's Popular Now?

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Graduate Electron and phonon contribution dependence on temperature for heat capacity

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Graduate Diophantine equation in the integer quantum hall effect

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Graduate Electronic gradient of Schroedinger Equation

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Graduate What are the different types of superconductors and how do they work?

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Undergrad Do semiconductors have to have a full valence band?

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Undergrad Effective mass of Si in semiconductor physics

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Undergrad X-ray Cystallography -Calculating Density

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Graduate Band Structure of Charged Insulator

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Graduate Hopping Probabilities in Tight Binding Model

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Graduate Time reversal and herring test

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Graduate Superconductivity in fullerenes

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Graduate Calculating Integral of Cubic Lattice Sum

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Graduate How relevant are solvable models such as 2D Ising to real systems?

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Graduate Calculating Demagnetization Factor: N for Simple Geometries

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Graduate Why does frequency doubling efficiency depend on input power?

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Graduate NMR Spin-evolution simulations

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Graduate What Are KPOINT Grids and Their Importance in Surface Calculations?

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Graduate Finding CASTEP tutorials for geometric optimizations

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Graduate Effect of dissociation energy on plasma ions behavior

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Graduate Two dimensional green function

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Graduate Determining Bravais Lattice from Primitive Translation Vectors

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Undergrad How to quantify evaporation rate from pressure and vapor pressure

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Graduate Does superfluidity imply BEC? (+ other BEC questions)

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Graduate Estimating Energy to Remove Atom from Lattice Vacancies in Silver

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Graduate Can You Decode a Band Structure Plot and Identify Corresponding Atomic Orbitals?

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Graduate Why does (1-Nl/2S)^1/2 work as a linear operator in Holstein-Primakoff?

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Graduate New open-shell molecular electronic structure program: What to do with it?

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Graduate Benzene forms the electron shell configuration of two rings of

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Graduate What do G-type and A-type antiferromagnetism mean?

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Graduate Why quantum well absorption has spikes at heavy and light hole transitions

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Graduate Superconductivity and Fermi levels

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Graduate Using Vicks Theorem to Calculate Average of Bose Operators

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Undergrad Does melting deteriorate the crystalline order?

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Graduate What applications could photonic Bose-Einstein condensate have?

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Undergrad Resistance calculation of odd-shaped plate

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High School Metallic Bond - The Role of 'Free' Electrons in a Metallic Bond

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Undergrad Can a piece of A4 paper reach the moon?

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Graduate Is Nonlinear Media Behavior Dependent on Incoming Field?

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Undergrad What distinguishes an illuminant from a light source?

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Graduate Self consistent spin wave theory

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Graduate The Potential of Quasi-Liquid Palladium: Applications and Uses

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Graduate Semiconductor Electron Affinity

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Graduate Is the Refractive Index Constant Despite Rising Extinction Coefficient?

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Graduate Calculated Density of states (DOS)

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Graduate Tight Binding Model: Reference Book for Band Structure

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Undergrad Indirect/direct semiconductors

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Graduate Rydberg States Exhibiting Quantum Defect?

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