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Graduate How to determine Chemical potential
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Undergrad Can Liquid Nitrogen Really Overclock a Processor to 6 GHz?
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Graduate Summations Homework: Is Rewrite Correct?
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Graduate Graphene w/ Boron & Nitrogen: Open Band Gap?
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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 Doubt regarding silicon waffers and silicon diodes
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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 Laser Physics: Second Harmonic Generation
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Graduate Solid state physics and chemistry
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Graduate Magnetic property of Molecules
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Graduate Shaking the Atom: Electron Shells & Nucleus Resonance
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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 Energies of Isolated Hydrogen Atom's Electron & Proton
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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 this interpretation logical? (Perturbation theory)
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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 Jellium Model: Finite Confinement & Coulomb Interactions
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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 Frequency Doubling: Typical Conversion, Input Power & CW Laser?
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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 Using CASTEP 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 Calculating Evaporation: Pressure, Vapor Pressure & Temperature
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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 Understanding the Spin Deviation Operator in Holstein-Primakoff Process
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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 Antiferromagnetism Types: G & A Types Explained
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Graduate Explaining the Unexpected Spikes in a Quantum Well Absorption Spectrum
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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 Creating Photonic BEC: What Possibilities & Applications Arise?
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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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Undergrad What's the Difference Between Ordinary and Degenerate Semiconductors?
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Graduate Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNTFET) Biosensor
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Graduate Hartree-Fock on a single Oxygen atom
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High School Nuclear Atomic Model: Definition & Overview
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Graduate Question on universailty classes
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Graduate Could Bose-Einstein Condensates Create Supernova-like Explosions?
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Graduate How do you calculate the lattice parameters c and a of Hexagonal ZnO
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High School I don't understand how HCl is not a ionic bond.
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High School How does atomic structure relate to how well things share energy.
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Graduate Do more energetic orbitals have wider bands in crystals?
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