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What is the value of the band gap in a good conductor
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Graduate How to Determine the Magnetic Field from Sodium's D Line Splitting?
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Graduate Coupling of angular momenta of many-electron atom
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Undergrad Valance and conduction band in solid.
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High School Why do solids stay hotter longer than other states?
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Graduate About Achieving self-consistency in solving KS equation
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Graduate How to determine band structure (E(k)) of a one dimensional crystal?
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Graduate Why are critical phenomena important in physics?
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Graduate How can light cause atoms to oscillate without being absorbed?
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Graduate Kinetic Energy of 3D Fermi Gas at Absolute Zero
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Graduate What's special about the point group 432?
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Undergrad Creating Patterns with Atoms: Can We Do It?
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Graduate Is it possible ( term symbols )
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Graduate How Do You Ensure Only Fe3+ Ions Are Implanted in a Target?
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Graduate Electrons moving due to a field
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Undergrad Why Do Textbooks Still Use Bohr's Atomic Theory Despite Its Limitations?
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Graduate Understanding the Presence of Vacancies in Crystal Lattices
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Graduate About domain theory of ferro magnetism
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Graduate Understanding eg and t2g Symmetry in DOS Graphics
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Graduate Finding High Symmetry Points for Wurtzite Structure with 12 Atoms
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Graduate Packaged software for alloys, pwscf code (quantum espresso)
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Graduate Fluctuation Terms in Landau Theory
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Graduate Fine structure of X-Ray transition
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Graduate Understanding Electron Attraction in HTSC Superconductors
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Graduate Is the Spin of Electrons Aligned Opposite to Net Magnetization in Ferromagnets?
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Graduate Why the crystal momentum k in 2D band structure is defined on a torus?
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Undergrad Determining Shape of Molecules: Water Example
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High School How do atoms behave in a solid state?
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Graduate Can Atoms in Liquids Be Considered Classically?
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Graduate Doubt on Band Theory of Solids: Can It Explain Electron Movement?
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Undergrad Explaining Bonding & Mass in Chemical Reactions
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Graduate Why Does Inhomogeneous Media Saturate More Slowly in Laser Technology?
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Undergrad Determine the dissociation energy with an electron beam
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Undergrad Calculating Current from AL3 Atomic Mass
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Graduate Another Raman spectrum question
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Graduate 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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Graduate Calc. Elec. Band Structure of Semicond. Alloys w/ Quantum Espresso
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Graduate Basic issue for graphene sheet
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Graduate Ising Model & Wolff's algorithm in FORTRAN
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Graduate Configuration Interaction
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Graduate Debye Model of Solids: Questions & Answers
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Graduate Photonic band gaps: Incomplete vs complete
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Graduate About the quasi-harmonic free energy
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High School Why are some elements conductors and magnetic, while others are not?
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Graduate Transverse and Longitudinal Sound Waves
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Undergrad Does Einsteins coefficient for spontaneous emission depend on energy difference?
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Undergrad Planes of simple cubic structure and X-ray diffraction experiment
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Graduate Understanding the Physical Meaning of Bloch State Wave Vector in Electrons
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High School Can gas density be permanently altered and what influences it?
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Graduate Why QFT in condensed matter physics?
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Graduate Gaussian basis set in DFT calculation
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Graduate Understanding L2M2M3 Auger Process
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Graduate Positron creation in semiconductors?
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Graduate Spectroscopic term of ground state electron configuration of Carbon atom
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Graduate How is the microscopic crystal structure visible?
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High School Does Higher Young Modulus Indicate Increased Rigidity in Solids?
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Graduate First time posting- M state metals
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Graduate Allowed Transition from 2s^2 to 2p^2 in Hydrogen: Why is it Missing?
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Undergrad Why Don't Atom Forces Follow Inverse Square Law? Help Needed!
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Undergrad Why are there only seven crystal systems and not 11
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Undergrad Rust and Reflection: The Optical Properties of Oxidized Steel
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Undergrad Can You Share Information on Raman Spectroscopy for Graphene?
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Graduate Modulo Z2 Invariant: What is it?
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Graduate Calculation of Magnetic susceptibility
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Graduate Question about depletion layer
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KRUGERLBM Shear Stress: Kruger Research Material
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Graduate How much energy could be stored in a superconducting ring
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Graduate How is the Fermi Level Formed in Compound Semiconductors Like GaN and GaAs?
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Undergrad Molar Mass of Graphene and its strength
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Graduate Photon interaction cross section? What?
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Undergrad $500 Superconductor research project?
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Graduate The absorption of a linearly polarized photon.
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Graduate Fermi dirac distribution at T->0
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Undergrad Electron Orbitals motion patterns
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Graduate Can Orbital Magnetic Moments Exist with Zero Angular Momentum in P-Orbitals?
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Graduate Electrons bound to the nucleus/ Bohr hypothosis
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Undergrad Linear thermal expansion, theoretical instead of experimental
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Graduate What kind of bosons can have Bose-Einstein Condensation?
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Graduate Light source at liquid nitrogen temps
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Undergrad What does Sn(alpha) mean? Does it have anything to do with Miller
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Graduate Child's Law and Thermionic Emission
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Graduate X-ray diffraction for 2-D crystal
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Graduate Fabrication and characterization of hetrojunction:
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Undergrad Wavelength and Extinction Coefficients
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Undergrad The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 goes to
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Graduate Overlap integrals in chemical molecules
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Graduate What is the definition of electron affinity in solids?
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High School Proving That Copper Is Cooler Than Room Temp
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Graduate Unit cell dimensions of crystal structure
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Graduate Analyse XRD Data to Find Lattice Constant & Crystal Structure
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Graduate Deconvolution IRF from fluorescence decay curves
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High School Gas Density & Force: Process to Turn Extremely Dense?
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Undergrad Josephson Effect: AC vs. DC Explained
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Undergrad Optical Conductivity: Explained & Compared to DC Conductivity
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Graduate Plasma Frequency of Bulk Silver in Terahertz Range
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Graduate Is This Expression for Electrostatic Potential Valid Under the Jellium Model?
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Graduate What is the impact of bias on DC sputtering for thin film deposition?
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Graduate Do vibrational energy levels decay?
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