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Undergrad ZENER BREAKDOWN has caused me a breakdown
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Graduate Stimulated Emission: Why Are Photons In Phase?
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Graduate Does the Keldysh Formalism Address the Loopholes in Kubo's Theory?
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Graduate Band theory of Conduction, what constititue resistance?
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Graduate Fermionic Condensate: A State of Matter?
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Where can i purchase a superconductor?
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Graduate Interatomic forces in an ensemble via vector analysis
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Graduate Measuring the Boltmann constant by the IV curve of a diode
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Graduate Why Are Effective Mass and Bands Simplified in Semiconductor Analysis?
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Undergrad How Does Voltage Drop Occur in Diodes Despite Forward Bias?
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Undergrad Depletion region in pn juction
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Graduate Potientials in npn transistor
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Graduate Effective mass of a charge carrier
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Graduate Energy density expression of a Gaussian pulse
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Graduate The differences in zero-point energy between isotopes
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Undergrad What is the meaning and origin of Young's Modulus in building materials?
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Graduate Lattice Vibrations and em waves
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Undergrad How to differentiate conductors and semiconductors?
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Graduate Triplet vs. Singlet diatomic molecules: Why the energy difference?
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Graduate What is the definition of momentum relaxation time in semiconductors?
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Graduate Need material on anisotropic conductivity
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Graduate Why Do Phonons Exhibit Spin 0?
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Undergrad Can diamond have a liquid state?
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High School Solid Mystery: A Non-Conductor of Heat, Yet a Good Conductor of Electricity?
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Graduate Question About Bloch Oscillation: Understand the Energy
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Graduate K.p theory and bandstructure calculations
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Graduate Effects gravity have on Superconductors
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Graduate Perturbative Treatment on Diatomic Hydrogen Molecule
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Graduate What is the Explanation for the DOS of Metallic CNT?
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Graduate How to lower melting point of solids (TiO2)?
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Graduate Symmetry elements and reciprocal lattices.
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Graduate Subatomic cyclone experiment idea
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Undergrad Temperature dependence on intrinsic carrier concentration
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Graduate Antibonding MO do they exist in reality?
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Undergrad Fermi level simple explanation
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Graduate Understanding Energy Bands and Bonding in Semiconductors
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High School Wonder about atom characteristic
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Graduate Maybe because is Fermi sphere is centered in origin?
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Graduate Computational Phy. Methods and Sim. (question)
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Graduate Landau fluid mechanics- mathematical passage
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Graduate Can Monoatomic Elements Really Have Superpowers?
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Graduate What is the Physical meaning of Bogoliubov transformation
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Undergrad How does doping work in semiconductors?
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Graduate Proton mobility vs. conductance in ice
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Undergrad Why Does Electron Spin Play No Role in NMR?
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Graduate What is the correct exited state configuration of litium?
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Graduate Estimating Density of States from Band Structure E(k)
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Graduate Diamond Synthesis HTHP Requirements
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Graduate What Causes Peakes? Explanation for Non-Experts
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Undergrad Can Liquids Exist in a High Quality Vacuum?
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Graduate Chemical Potential & Fermi Energy
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Graduate States counting of many particales under a constraint
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Graduate Which software is best for PIMD simulations: PINY or CPMD?
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Undergrad What are two molecular states ?
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Graduate Understanding Reciprocal Lattice Vectors and Orthogonality in Primitive Lattices
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Undergrad What factors affect the thermal conductivity of solids?
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Undergrad The element Mercury as a Fuel?
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Graduate VASP versus ABINIT for parallel calculations
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Undergrad Which Color Laser Burns Paper Fastest at Equal Wattage?
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Graduate Def'n: magnetic ordering wave vectors
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Graduate Helium-3 Superfluidity: Magnetic Behavior Questions
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Graduate Surface plasmons not exist for transverse polarisation?
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Graduate Efficient Diagonalisation of Bogoliubov deGennes Equation on Large Grids
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Undergrad How Does the Bhor Theory Relate Energy and Angular Momentum?
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Graduate Metropolis-Monte Carlo Algorithm
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Graduate Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Explanation
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Graduate How Does Sample Thickness Impact XRD Analysis?
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Graduate Assumptions of Drude and Sommerfeld Models: A Comparison
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Graduate Effect of a magnetic field on the physical size of a paramagnetic molecule
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Undergrad Forces of attraction inside atom
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Undergrad Need help manipulating Van der Walls Force
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Undergrad How do you find the diameter of certain atoms?
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Graduate COMSOL band structure of photonic crystal waveguide
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Graduate How Does the BCS Hamiltonian Describe Superconductivity?
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Graduate Angle dependent incident in PhC
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Graduate How is the resolution power of atomic force microscopy determined?
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Graduate Theoretical solid state physics
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Graduate Understanding the Discrete Nature of k in Photonic Crystals
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Undergrad Valence Electrons: Why Move from Group 1 to 17?
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Graduate Can We Have Less Than One Exciton? Understanding Electron-Hole Pairs
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Graduate Bogoliubov superfluidity Hamiltonian
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Graduate All number of bosons in case of Bose condensation
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Graduate What role do currents play in the Meissner effect?
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Graduate Q about State of Hydrogen Atoms
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Atomic Time: Get the Facts and Learn How it Works
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Graduate How Can I Create a Light-Emitting Plasmoid Using a 1 Watt 808nm Diode Laser?
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Graduate Can we use this approximation for k_D<<k_F?
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Graduate Time-Reversal Invariance at M Point of Surface Brioullin Zone
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Graduate Free energy of solids & Einstein crystal
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Graduate Conversion of EDX linescans to concentration
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Graduate What is the Approximate Kane Energy of GaAs for Calculating Oscillator Strength?
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Graduate Heisenberg Feromagnet: Chaotic Phases @ Low Temp
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Graduate How Does Bias Voltage Affect Carbon Nanotube Transmission Spectra?
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Graduate The meaning of temperature in nano particles
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Undergrad Band Theory of Solids: Basic Concepts Explained
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Graduate Bonding force of an optical electron and the nucleus of ion Cr3+
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Graduate Need Info: Bi2Te3 Crystal Structure, Grain Size & Lattice Parameter
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Graduate Photoexcitation stages of an atom?
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Graduate 128 Quantum System D-Wave System on arxiv.org
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