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Undergrad Diamagnetism is the property of an object

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High School Is Principles of Plasma Spectroscopy by H. Griem Still Available for Purchase?

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What is the light spot in these picture ?

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Graduate Why Use Homogeneous Dispersion for Group Velocity in Inhomogeneous Lattice?

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Graduate Topological Objects: Understanding Their Physical Interest

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Graduate Diffrence between Normal mode and phonons

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Graduate Is the Non-Interacting Nature of Fermions in Superconductors a Paradox?

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Graduate WCFSGS'S Version: Generalized Second Law of Thermal Dynamics

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Undergrad ESR Seminar Prep: Introduction to Electron Spin Resonance

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Undergrad What gain guiding and index guiding mean in the context of lasers?

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Graduate Stark Effect Experiment: Observing Splittings with 600 Grooves/mm Spectrometer

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Graduate How Does the Anderson Impurity Model Explain Local Moment Formation in Graphene?

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Undergrad Notation for semiconductor alloy

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High School Help: The thermal expansion coefficient of spring.

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Undergrad Why not indirect band gap for led

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Graduate Solving Surface Plasmons: Understanding Components & Charge Density

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Graduate Physical origin of different phase velocities.

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Undergrad Elementary crystal cell or the whole crystal?

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Graduate Spin orbit interaction and LS coupling

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Graduate Electrons in Graphene: Massless Like Photons?

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Graduate Lamp, p-n, nanotubes transistors

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

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Graduate Packing fraction for multi-atom basis

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Graduate Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

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Graduate Semi-Classical Treatment of Spin Waves in Antiferromagnetic Systems

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Graduate Density of states for non-interacting systems

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Undergrad What distinguishes insulators from dielectrics?

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High School Atom Shapes: Visualizing Electron Clouds

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

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Graduate Vibrational Partition Function

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High School Where Does an Electron Reside in the Cloud Model?

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Graduate Matter mechanics: Ideal & observed stress

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Graduate Lindhard RPA Dielectric Function Electron Gas

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

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Graduate Electronic properties of graphene

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Graduate Photon reflection from a metal surface

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Undergrad Good software for analyzing STM images?

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Graduate MD simulation of crystal oriented along 110, 111 planes

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Graduate Why are Topological Insulators Called Topological?

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Graduate Velocity distribution of atoms releasing from a surface

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Graduate Superconductivity in type1 and type2?

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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Neutral Atoms and Electric Fields

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Undergrad What is the debye temperature?

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Graduate Relationship interatomic spacing or interplanar spacing and grain size

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High School The desire of atoms for a lower energy state

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

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Graduate Confused: Doping and Depletion Zone

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Undergrad Why does sodium light have two distinct wavelengths?

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Graduate Tight binding in cubic crystals

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Graduate Qs: How Group and Period affect semiconductors

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Graduate DFT: Investigating Change in States at Surfaces and Interfaces

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Graduate Behaviour of hydrogen in an electric field

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

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Graduate Modeling the Absorbtion of Silver-doped glass

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

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Graduate Mossbauer Spectroscopy, velocity conversion

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Undergrad Numericals Analysis and Physics

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Graduate Fraction of electrons within kT of fermi energy?

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Graduate Impurities effects in Type II SCs

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Graduate Location of Fermi level in semiconductors

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Undergrad How to make Gallium/Molybdenum Alloy?

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Graduate Diamond Structre Crystallography Questions

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Graduate Matrices of simple face and cubic centered cubic lattice

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Undergrad Demonstrating the stark effect in the lab

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Graduate What is Coherent Population Trapping in Optics?

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Graduate Explaining Surface Plasmon Excitation by Light

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Graduate Tigh-Binding approach for disordered system

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

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Graduate Calculating Fermi Level in Quantum Wells

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

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Graduate Kronig-Penney Model: Understanding Electron Potential Energy

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Graduate What do we know about Holons and Spinons?

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Graduate Eigenvalues and density of states

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Graduate Is the wavefunction constant in the tight-binding model?

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High School Are Semiconductors Electrically Charged?

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Graduate Relative permittivity of vacuum aluminum interface?

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Graduate Does a phonon have a location?

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Graduate Surface Plasmon Resonance in Gold Films: My Conundrum

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Graduate Why don't solids fuse spontaneously?

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Graduate Exploring the Mysteries of Cryogenic Electron Emission

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

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Graduate A question about Intensities and Spectrometers.

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Graduate Interpretation of the Debye length

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

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Undergrad A paradox about Drift Velocity

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High School Hardness vs. density (for Elements)

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Graduate Fermi Surface & Band Diagram Relationship?

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Undergrad Difference between hole and +ve ion?

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Graduate How do hyperfine splits occur?

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Graduate Calculating the Schmid factor for an FCC single crystal

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Undergrad Hydrogen Ground State Energies - Question

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Graduate What Happens When an Electron-Hole Meets a Positron-Hole?

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

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Graduate What Is Mrad(Si)? Irradiation Damage To Semiconductor Devices

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Graduate What Are the Key Symmetries and Degeneracies in Lattice Structures?

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Graduate Particular material that becomes strained under electrostatic

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

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Graduate Landau quantization and magnetic translation

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Graduate Which code has superior pseudopotentials for ab initio quantum calculations?

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