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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 ?
- jhon
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Graduate Why Use Homogeneous Dispersion for Group Velocity in Inhomogeneous Lattice?
- Niles
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Graduate Why are topological objects physically interesting?
- stephenhky
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Graduate Diffrence between Normal mode and phonons
- dmit11
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Graduate Is the Non-Interacting Nature of Fermions in Superconductors a Paradox?
- Niles
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Graduate Generalized second law of thermodynamics with constraints
- WCFSGS
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Undergrad ESR Seminar Prep: Introduction to Electron Spin Resonance
- jwtear
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Undergrad What gain guiding and index guiding mean in the context of lasers?
- Cerkit
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Graduate Stark Effect Experiment: Observing Splittings with 600 Grooves/mm Spectrometer
- amalmirando
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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
- sir_manning
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High School Help: The thermal expansion coefficient of spring.
- leo.yl.zhang
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Undergrad Why not indirect band gap for led
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Graduate Why do surface plasmons require normal component of dielectric displacement?
- geo_alchemist
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Graduate Physical origin of different phase velocities.
- Xian
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Undergrad Elementary crystal cell or the whole crystal?
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Graduate Spin orbit interaction and LS coupling
- ian2012
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Graduate Are electrons in graphene truly massless like photons?
- carbon9
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Graduate Lamp, p-n, nanotubes transistors
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Graduate Can electromagnetic stimulation cause atomic cooling through photon emission?
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Graduate Packing fraction for multi-atom basis
- james477
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Graduate Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
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Graduate Semi-Classical Treatment of Spin Waves in Antiferromagnetic Systems
- thoughtgaze
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Graduate Density of states for non-interacting systems
- Niles
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Undergrad What distinguishes insulators from dielectrics?
- kmp
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High School Atom Shapes: Visualizing Electron Clouds
- clm321
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Graduate How Does an Electric Field Affect Energy Levels in a Quantum Well?
- Cerkit
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Graduate Vibrational Partition Function
- manofphysics
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High School Where Does an Electron Reside in the Cloud Model?
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Graduate Why do solids fail at lower stress than theoretical estimates?
- Master J
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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
- nordmoon
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Graduate Electronic properties of graphene
- rizzodex
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Graduate Why do metals re-emit photons at the same wavelength they absorb?
- Pete99
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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
- ronbenin
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Graduate Why are Topological Insulators Called Topological?
- tayyaba aftab
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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 Do neutral atoms create or feel electric fields?
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Undergrad What is the debye temperature?
- lavster
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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 Why do all reciprocal lattice origins coincide in powder diffraction?
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Graduate How does doping create the depletion zone in PN junctions?
- Xian
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Undergrad Why does sodium light have two distinct wavelengths?
- kmp
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Graduate Tight binding in cubic crystals
- torehan
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Graduate Why Group IV semiconductors work differently in higher periods
- JeffEvarts
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Graduate DFT energy reference for comparing bulk, surface and interface states
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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?
- only1892
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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 Why does surface plasmon excitation need a normal light component?
- geo_alchemist
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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
- manofphysics
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Graduate What do we know about Holons and Spinons?
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Graduate Eigenvalues and density of states
- Niles
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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
- philip041
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Graduate Why don't solids fuse spontaneously?
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Graduate What causes correlated bursts in 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 Measuring quantitative intensities with Fourier transform 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 How to derive Fermi surface shape from an energy band diagram
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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?
- Niles
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Graduate What Determines the Magnetic Field Orientation in a P Type Semiconductor Coil?
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Graduate What Is Mrad(Si)? Irradiation Damage To Semiconductor Devices
- akinokoe
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Graduate What symmetries in a lattice cause degeneracies?
- Niles
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Graduate Particular material that becomes strained under electrostatic
- sol66
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Graduate Why is Hooke's law a fourth rank tensor in solid state physics?
- sol66
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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?
- Physicslad78
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