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Graduate Can the Plasmon Frequency in Metals Be Changed Experimentally?

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Graduate Applying Ising Model to High Temp Superconductors

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Graduate Lorentz Cavity in Uniformly Polarised Dielectric: Exam Question

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Undergrad Depletion depth in a PIN diode

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Graduate Energy of 3D free electron gas.

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Graduate Matsubara frequency convergency factor

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Graduate Explaining electrical resistivity behaviour from phonon perspective

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Graduate What is the Density of States (DOS) for Metallic Carbon Nanotubes?

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Undergrad Ionization vs. photo-generation - what is the difference?

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Graduate Crystal field theory, what is spin?

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Graduate Subatomic Reversibility of Time?

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High School What is the meaning of Vbe and Vce in a transistor amplifier?

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Undergrad ZENER BREAKDOWN has caused me a breakdown

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Graduate Isolating Single Atoms: Experiments & Application

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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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