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Graduate Do vibrational energy levels decay?
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High School Gas, Liquids, and solids : Details
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Graduate Ionized dopants and quasi-fermi level
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Undergrad Creep in Plastics: Does Strain Cause Creep?
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Graduate Plot of Ginzburg-Landau parameters
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Undergrad How Do We Calculate Magnetic Susceptibility Using Curie's Law?
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Graduate Thermopower Wave: Nanotube Electron Entrainment
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Graduate Atom position (coordinates) from symmetry
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Graduate How is the k.p method used in semiconductor systems?
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Graduate How do photons interact with nuetrons or other uncharged particles?
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Graduate What is the Bose-Einstein State and How Does it Compare to Plasma?
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Graduate Symmetry of the Bloch Ground State
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Graduate What Can Photoelectron Spectroscopy Reveal About Surface Structure?
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Graduate Electron Radius r_s: Data & Resources
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Graduate Is there a limit to the amount of energy stored in a superconductor?
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Graduate How Does Rydberg Energy Apply to Exciton Binding Calculations?
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Graduate Where Does the Nonlinear Optics Wave Equation Come From?
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Undergrad What is the impact of proton differences on element properties?
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Graduate First brillouin zone construction
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Undergrad Crazy idea about atomic structure
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Graduate Collective modes and restoration of gauge invariance in superconductivity
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Graduate Supercell Tight Binding: Understanding and Troubleshooting
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Graduate Plane-wave molecular integrals
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Graduate Calculation of Isotop lifetimes
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Graduate Why is a boron doped diamond xtal blue ?
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Undergrad Potential energy separation curve
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High School If the atoms in solid matter a tightly grouped?
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Graduate Stochastic Differential Equations
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Undergrad Question about Rutherford atomic model
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Graduate Why the term diffraction in XRD
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Undergrad Light Illumination effect on metal conductivity
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Undergrad Electron hole theory in Semiconductors
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Graduate How Are Bandgaps Tuned and Modified in LEDs?
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Graduate Is Silicene the New Graphene? (Atom-Thick Silicon)
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Graduate .Books on Quantum Confinement and Consequences
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Graduate Pointers to start understanding topological insulators
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Graduate Exp(i k.r) ~ A travelling wave ?
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Graduate Linear Polarisability interesting problem
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Graduate Can you explain the coupling of surface plasmons with photons?
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Graduate Can we easily extract effective masses from Si band structure?
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Undergrad Why do some materials reflect and others absorb light?
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Graduate Codes for constructing matrix of Hamiltonion of 2D square Tight-bonding model
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Graduate Superconducting d-wave dispersion
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Graduate Why does signal yield increase with shorter wavelength in Raman spectroscopy?
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Undergrad Why don't electrons in the same orbital repel
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Graduate What Does the Third-Rank Tensor Represent in Nonlinear Optics?
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Undergrad A description of fire at an atomic level
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Undergrad Ionic Bond Saturation: Binding Force & Packing
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Graduate Superconductivity and electron pair
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Undergrad A simple model of a transistor/LED/photodiode
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Graduate Is the topological insulators a result of boundary conditions with SO coupling ?
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Undergrad Dynamic Equilibrium: Is System Still At Equilibrium During Shift?
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Graduate Difference between Raman scattering and Rayleigh scattering
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Graduate Nonlinear Optics: Understanding NLO Chromophores and Polarization
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Graduate What are the effects of fluctuating dipoles in Van der Waals interactions?
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Undergrad Why do electrons form a 'sea' in metallic bonding?
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Undergrad XRD Database: Online Resource for Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Peaks
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Graduate Crystallite Size from XRD (comments on method required)
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Graduate Fresnel Equations - Equal Entry/Exit Reflection
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Graduate What goes on in a semiconductor.
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Graduate Observing the Stark Effect in the Lab: Visible to the Eye?
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Graduate Why Do 2p and 2d Lines Appear in Electron Transition Events?
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Graduate What colors can we expect from sub-atomic particles?
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Graduate Brillouin Zone & K Point Explained
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Graduate Room temperature positive magnetoresistance
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Undergrad What is the significance of n+, p+, and p doping in silicon wafers?
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Graduate Question on Virtual Crystal Approx.(VCA)
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Graduate Interacting Spins , Heisenberg Hamiltonian , Tensor product
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Graduate Trying to understand quantum-mechanical conduction
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Graduate What does spin degrees of freedom mean?
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Undergrad Zero Resistivity in superconductors
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Graduate Origin of Attractive Electron Interaction
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Graduate Strange problem with Direct Simulation Monte Carlo
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Undergrad What are the key differences between the free electron model and plasma?
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Graduate Magnitude of the electric dipole moment in semiconductors
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Graduate Find the critical temperature of a bismuth based ceramic
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Graduate Ground state properties of Hubbard model
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Graduate Equilibrium Statistical Operator for Grand Canonical Ensemble
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Undergrad One dimensional stress,strain,deflection analysis
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Graduate What are the potential applications of pseudo-magnetism in strained graphene?
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Graduate Calculate Overlap of PZ Orbitals Dependent on Interatomic Distance
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Graduate Projects on monte carlo simulations
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Graduate Fermi-Dirac statistics at the Fermi level
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Undergrad Why Is the Angle Between Hydrogen Atoms in Water Molecules 105 Degrees?
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Graduate Penetration Depth of Oxygen in Iron Thin Films
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Graduate Alpha particle trajectories from Li disintegration
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Soft Optical Modes
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High School Are blocks (billets) of metal crystals?
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Graduate Deriving DOS of Bilayer Graphene Under Electric Field
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Graduate Help for supercell, Bloch function
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Graduate Is a Room Temperature Superconductor Achievable?
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Graduate Why Do Hadrons Weigh More Than the Sum of Their Quarks?
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Graduate E vs K Diagrams: Understanding Crystal Momentum & Velocity
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Graduate BCS theory by canonical transformation
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Graduate Calculate dielectric function from n and k
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Graduate Transition states of electron in atom
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Graduate Fourier Transform of correlation functions
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Graduate Thermal to electric conversion with diodes
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Graduate How can a compound said to be glass?
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