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Atomic and Condensed Matter Forum

Join in expert discussion on atomic and condensed matter. Methods for atoms, molecules, condensed matter. This includes the structure of the atom, its energy states, and its interactions.

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Solving Surface Plasmons: Understanding Components & Charge Density

Apr 28, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 28, 2010

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Physical origin of different phase velocities.

Apr 19, 2010 · Replies 2 · Apr 28, 2010

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Elementary crystal cell or the whole crystal?

Apr 24, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 27, 2010

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Spin orbit interaction and LS coupling

Apr 25, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 27, 2010

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Electrons in Graphene: Massless Like Photons?

Apr 18, 2009 · Replies 14 · Apr 25, 2010

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Lamp, p-n, nanotubes transistors

Apr 17, 2010 · Replies 6 · Apr 23, 2010

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Could a Photo-atomic Refrigerator Be the Future of Cooling Technology?

Apr 22, 2010 · Replies 2 · Apr 22, 2010

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Packing fraction for multi-atom basis

Apr 21, 2010 · Replies 4 · Apr 22, 2010

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Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Apr 20, 2010 · Replies 4 · Apr 21, 2010

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Semi-Classical Treatment of Spin Waves in Antiferromagnetic Systems

Apr 11, 2010 · Replies 8 · Apr 19, 2010

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Density of states for non-interacting systems

Apr 9, 2010 · Replies 23 · Apr 19, 2010

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What distinguishes insulators from dielectrics?

Apr 11, 2010 · Replies 9 · Apr 18, 2010

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Atom Shapes: Visualizing Electron Clouds

Apr 15, 2010 · Replies 5 · Apr 15, 2010

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How Does an Electric Field Affect Energy Levels in a Quantum Well?

Apr 13, 2010 · Replies 5 · Apr 14, 2010

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Vibrational Partition Function

Apr 12, 2010 · Replies 2 · Apr 12, 2010

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Where Does an Electron Reside in the Cloud Model?

Apr 12, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 12, 2010

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Matter mechanics: Ideal & observed stress

Apr 12, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 12, 2010

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Lindhard RPA Dielectric Function Electron Gas

Mar 30, 2010 · Replies 3 · Apr 12, 2010

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Understanding Intensity in Spectral Lines: A Brief Overview and Common Questions

Apr 8, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 12, 2010

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Electronic properties of graphene

Mar 5, 2010 · Replies 14 · Apr 11, 2010

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Photon reflection from a metal surface

Apr 9, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 11, 2010

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Good software for analyzing STM images?

Apr 11, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 11, 2010

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MD simulation of crystal oriented along 110, 111 planes

Apr 9, 2010 · Replies 4 · Apr 10, 2010

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Why are Topological Insulators Called Topological?

Feb 16, 2010 · Replies 12 · Apr 10, 2010

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Velocity distribution of atoms releasing from a surface

Mar 29, 2010 · Replies 2 · Apr 9, 2010

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Superconductivity in type1 and type2?

Apr 8, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 8, 2010

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Unraveling the Mystery of Neutral Atoms and Electric Fields

Apr 8, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 8, 2010

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What is the debye temperature?

Apr 7, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 7, 2010

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Relationship interatomic spacing or interplanar spacing and grain size

Apr 7, 2010 · Replies 5 · Apr 7, 2010

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What is the nature of the origin of reciprocal space, please?

Apr 2, 2010 · Replies 5 · Apr 7, 2010

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Confused: Doping and Depletion Zone

Apr 5, 2010 · Replies 3 · Apr 6, 2010

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Why does sodium light have two distinct wavelengths?

Apr 5, 2010 · Replies 4 · Apr 5, 2010

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Tight binding in cubic crystals

Apr 5, 2010 · Replies 4 · Apr 5, 2010

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Qs: How Group and Period affect semiconductors

Mar 17, 2010 · Replies 6 · Apr 4, 2010

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DFT: Investigating Change in States at Surfaces and Interfaces

Apr 3, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 4, 2010

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Behaviour of hydrogen in an electric field

Mar 29, 2010 · Replies 5 · Apr 2, 2010

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Where can I find the free energy for Nitrogen-N2?

Jun 14, 2007 · Replies 2 · Apr 2, 2010

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Modeling the Absorbtion of Silver-doped glass

Mar 25, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 2, 2010

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Why does half-filling in a lattice result in a zero chemical potential?

Apr 1, 2010 · Replies 3 · Apr 2, 2010

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Mossbauer Spectroscopy, velocity conversion

Mar 30, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 1, 2010

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Numericals Analysis and Physics

Apr 1, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 1, 2010

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Fraction of electrons within kT of fermi energy?

Mar 31, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 1, 2010

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Impurities effects in Type II SCs

Mar 24, 2010 · Replies 3 · Mar 30, 2010

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Location of Fermi level in semiconductors

Mar 29, 2010 · Replies 3 · Mar 30, 2010

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How to make Gallium/Molybdenum Alloy?

Mar 28, 2010 · Replies 1 · Mar 28, 2010

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Diamond Structre Crystallography Questions

Mar 28, 2010 · Replies 1 · Mar 28, 2010

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Matrices of simple face and cubic centered cubic lattice

Mar 27, 2010 · Replies 2 · Mar 27, 2010

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Demonstrating the stark effect in the lab

Feb 21, 2010 · Replies 3 · Mar 27, 2010

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What is Coherent Population Trapping in Optics?

Mar 19, 2010 · Replies 3 · Mar 27, 2010

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Explaining Surface Plasmon Excitation by Light

Mar 24, 2010 · Replies 3 · Mar 25, 2010

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Tigh-Binding approach for disordered system

Mar 25, 2010 · Replies 1 · Mar 25, 2010

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How Does p_x + i p_y Symmetry Arise in P-Wave Superconductors?

Mar 24, 2010 · Replies 1 · Mar 24, 2010

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Calculating Fermi Level in Quantum Wells

Mar 21, 2010 · Replies 4 · Mar 24, 2010

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What is a hole and how does it relate to electricity?

Mar 4, 2010 · Replies 60 · Mar 22, 2010

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Kronig-Penney Model: Understanding Electron Potential Energy

Mar 21, 2010 · Replies 1 · Mar 22, 2010

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What do we know about Holons and Spinons?

Mar 1, 2010 · Replies 5 · Mar 21, 2010

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Eigenvalues and density of states

Mar 15, 2010 · Replies 6 · Mar 21, 2010

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Is the wavefunction constant in the tight-binding model?

Mar 19, 2010 · Replies 4 · Mar 21, 2010

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Relative permittivity of vacuum aluminum interface?

May 31, 2009 · Replies 6 · Mar 20, 2010

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Does a phonon have a location?

Mar 15, 2010 · Replies 10 · Mar 20, 2010

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Surface Plasmon Resonance in Gold Films: My Conundrum

Mar 3, 2009 · Replies 3 · Mar 19, 2010

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Why don't solids fuse spontaneously?

Mar 16, 2010 · Replies 8 · Mar 18, 2010

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Exploring the Mysteries of Cryogenic Electron Emission

Mar 11, 2010 · Replies 13 · Mar 18, 2010

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How to Find the Interatomic Distance in Graphite from Electron Diffraction Data?

Mar 12, 2010 · Replies 5 · Mar 16, 2010

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A question about Intensities and Spectrometers.

Mar 12, 2010 · Replies 2 · Mar 15, 2010

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Interpretation of the Debye length

Mar 13, 2010 · Replies 3 · Mar 13, 2010

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Whats the difference between a vacancy and a hole in semiconductor physics?

Mar 12, 2010 · Replies 3 · Mar 13, 2010

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A paradox about Drift Velocity

Feb 11, 2010 · Replies 39 · Mar 10, 2010

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Fermi Surface & Band Diagram Relationship?

Mar 8, 2010 · Replies 2 · Mar 8, 2010

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Difference between hole and +ve ion?

Mar 5, 2010 · Replies 1 · Mar 6, 2010

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How do hyperfine splits occur?

Mar 5, 2010 · Replies 2 · Mar 6, 2010

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Calculating the Schmid factor for an FCC single crystal

Mar 4, 2010 · Replies 3 · Mar 5, 2010

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Hydrogen Ground State Energies - Question

Mar 4, 2010 · Replies 2 · Mar 5, 2010

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Are Filled Bands in Insulators Equivalent to Non-Mobile Electrons?

Mar 4, 2010 · Replies 11 · Mar 4, 2010

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What Are the Key Symmetries and Degeneracies in Lattice Structures?

Feb 26, 2010 · Replies 5 · Mar 1, 2010

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Particular material that becomes strained under electrostatic

Feb 11, 2010 · Replies 5 · Feb 26, 2010

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Hooke's Law: A Beginner's Guide to Tensor Form and Matrix Form

Feb 24, 2010 · Replies 7 · Feb 25, 2010

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Landau quantization and magnetic translation

Feb 15, 2010 · Replies 5 · Feb 25, 2010

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Which code has superior pseudopotentials for ab initio quantum calculations?

Feb 11, 2010 · Replies 4 · Feb 25, 2010

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How are very low temperatures(-180k) measured?

Feb 24, 2010 · Replies 9 · Feb 25, 2010

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How Do You Calculate the Volume of a Wigner-Seitz Cell in an FCC Lattice?

Feb 24, 2010 · Replies 1 · Feb 25, 2010

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How Does a Cesium Atomic Clock Work?

Feb 23, 2010 · Replies 1 · Feb 24, 2010

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Greens functions and density of states

Feb 22, 2010 · Replies 4 · Feb 24, 2010

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Is metallic hydrogen superconductive at 273k

Feb 22, 2010 · Replies 3 · Feb 23, 2010

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Conduction band and antibonding orbitals

Jan 29, 2010 · Replies 11 · Feb 22, 2010

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How does tunneling explain the behavior of transistors in BJT and FET devices?

Sep 1, 2006 · Replies 27 · Feb 21, 2010

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Longitudinal resistivity in the Quantum Hall Effect

Feb 21, 2010 · Replies 2 · Feb 21, 2010

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Calculating ratio c/a as 1.633 in HCP?

Feb 19, 2010 · Replies 4 · Feb 20, 2010

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Elastic modulii relation for a sphere

Feb 19, 2010 · Replies 3 · Feb 19, 2010

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Energy Bands: Kronig-Penney Model

Feb 14, 2010 · Replies 5 · Feb 19, 2010

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Lennard Jones- reduced units

Feb 16, 2010 · Replies 2 · Feb 17, 2010

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Energy required for creation of photoelectron

Nov 23, 2009 · Replies 1 · Feb 17, 2010

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What is off resonance rapi frequency?

Feb 17, 2010 · Replies 1 · Feb 17, 2010

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How to calculate the band structure?

Feb 16, 2010 · Replies 4 · Feb 17, 2010

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Determining atomic radius at home

Feb 16, 2010 · Replies 2 · Feb 17, 2010

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Wave eqtion of electron in a periodic potential

Feb 8, 2010 · Replies 1 · Feb 14, 2010

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Spin orientation by optical technique

Feb 5, 2010 · Replies 2 · Feb 14, 2010

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What does He-Like or Ni-Like mean?

Feb 11, 2010 · Replies 4 · Feb 12, 2010

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The forces in an atomic nucleus

Feb 12, 2010 · Replies 2 · Feb 12, 2010

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Graph of potential energy versus internucleon distance in an atom

Feb 12, 2010 · Replies 3 · Feb 12, 2010

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Atomic and Condensed Matter

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Atomic and condensed matter physics are two closely related branches of physics. Atomic physics focuses on the study of atoms, investigating their structure, behavior, and interactions with electromagnetic radiation.

It delves into phenomena such as atomic spectra, quantum states, and atomic transitions. Condensed matter physics, on the other hand, extends these principles to study the properties and behaviors of solid and liquid matter in bulk, dealing with materials like metals, semiconductors, and liquids.

This field explores concepts such as phase transitions, crystal structures, and electronic properties of condensed phases. Both atomic and condensed matter physics contribute significantly to our understanding of the fundamental properties of matter and find applications in various technological advancements and material science.

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