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Undergrad Understanding the AC Stark Shift Effect in Laser-Atom Interactions
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Graduate Why do Eu doped phosphors show fluorescence property without singlet?
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High School Collapse of a neutron star - strong nuclear force vs gravity
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Undergrad Graphene - Armchair vs Zigzag - Semiconductor?
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High School Viewing IR radiation with cell phone cameras
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Problems with Landau Wang algorithm in fortran
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Undergrad How do two photons affect Rabi oscillations in a 2-level atomic system?
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Undergrad Do electron orbitals ever change?
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Undergrad Spin orbit coupling/Filling order/Nucleus
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High School Question about final k.e. of alpha and Polonium after decay of Radon
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Graduate Enthalpy of Evaporation at Zero Kelvin | Understanding Enthelpy Basics
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Undergrad Confused about Ramsey interferometry
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High School Are Subatomic particles a form of matter?
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Graduate Crystallographic representation of a material, two sources seem very d
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Undergrad Van Laue Formulation: X-ray Diffraction from Crystal Structure
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High School Volume of a solid at absolute zero
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Undergrad The wave vector in 1st B.Z in Bloch theory
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High School Are energy bands in solid state timeless?
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Undergrad Bands in strongly correlated materials
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High School Why one substance does not pass through another substance？
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Undergrad Semiclassical model of electron dynamics
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Graduate Green's function calculation of an infinite lattice with periodicity in 1D
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Graduate Which condensed matter experiment PhD group is the most fun?
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High School How trapped ions can be used to make Atomic clocks?
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Undergrad How Can LASER Be Both a Quantum and Classical Light Source?
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Undergrad Electrostatic waves in a plasma
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High School What happens when you push a rod?
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Undergrad 9 y.o. question: will a spoon of neutron star matter explode?
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Undergrad Why does a hydrogen gas tube produce a hydrogen atomic spectrum?
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Undergrad What is Diffusion Voltage in Semiconductor Heterojunctions?
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Graduate What is the charge neutral point?
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Undergrad Importance of the energy gap in electronic transport properties
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High School How can an atom have a negative charge?
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Undergrad Solid State Physics: Explaining Ashcroft & Mermin's Hall Effect
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Graduate What is the role of Berry curvature in solids according to Rev. Mod. Phys?
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High School Reduced mass to atomic mass units conversion help please
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3D Solid State Simulation Software
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Undergrad What happens to the temperature of a superconductor?
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Undergrad Hall Effect constant and Cyclotron frequency
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Undergrad Electron correlation vs electron exchange
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High School Notation for indexing a crystal direction
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Graduate What Are the Key Insights on Bragg/von Lau Scattering in X-Ray Experiments?
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Undergrad Room Temp Super Conductor: Break Out the Champagne?
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Undergrad Why are the d and f orbitals in transition metals considered localized?
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Graduate Conductance of an interacting quasi one dimensional wire
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High School Don't understand proof of Bloch theorem
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Undergrad How Does Finite Size Scaling Reveal Cluster Behavior in 1D Percolation?
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Undergrad Photons and wavelength in ultrafast optics
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Undergrad Born-Oppenheimer approximations in molecules
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Graduate Taking all the electrons away from a real conductor
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Graduate How are the thermal expansion of a solid and the stress tensor related?
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Undergrad Fermi level in a nonuniformly doped semiconductor
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Undergrad Is Electron-Electron Interaction Stronger in Metals or Semiconductors?
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Undergrad Maxwell Boltzmann distribution
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Undergrad Electron scattering in the Brillouin zone boundary
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High School Hydrogen anions - how do they form?
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High School What is Plasma? Is Tungsten Vapour a Gas or Plasma?
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Generating rotons in superfluids
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Undergrad Can Theoretical Models Predict Direct Bandgap Materials for Solar Cells?
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Undergrad Electric field inside a Superconductor
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Graduate Is Symmetry Breaking Occurring in Our Physical System Experiments?
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Undergrad Converting Unit Cell Volumes of Minerals to Density
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Graduate How Does the Two-Particle Green Function Relate to Hartree-Fock Theory?
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Graduate Antiferromagnetic ground state due to superexchange
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Graduate Graphene wavefunction expressed in tight binding form
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Graduate Clarifying question about surface states
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Graduate Help with the Derrick scaling argument and topological solitons
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Undergrad Topological Defects: Can They Induce Phase Transitions?
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Graduate DFT calculations for metal oxide semiconductors and graphene oxide
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Undergrad How does contact occur at the atomic level?
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Thermal penetration depth experiment
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Undergrad How can I calculate the lattice parameter for building Argon atoms using LAMMPS?
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Undergrad Are the electrons in the conduction band completely free?
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Undergrad Energy of Conduction and Valence Band in Opposing Directions
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Graduate Relativistic Effects on Particles and Gases
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Undergrad Phonon Number Conservation in a Single Mode Oscillation Experiment
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Undergrad Bose Einstein Condensate For Oxygen 16 and Oxygen 18
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High School Why don't solids always stick together?
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Undergrad Damage threshold of short pulses....
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Graduate Laser Ablation of a fused silica surface
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Undergrad Confused about fluorescence at resonance
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Graduate A derivation in Stoner's "The Demagnetizing Factors for Ellipsoids"
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein condensate diagram
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Undergrad Power Broadening: Explained & Resources
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High School Is there a Relativistic Quantum Chemistry Table?
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Undergrad Error on a transition frequency
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Calculating Spin Texture in Wien2K for TI Bi2Te3
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Graduate Deriving Ginzburg-Landau Theory from BCS: A Simplified Approach
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Graduate What Is the Significance of ε(∞) in Plasma Dielectrics?
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High School Mechanical Resonance and Natural Frequency at the Atomic/Lattice Level
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Undergrad Doubts regarding atomic spectra of mono-electron species
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Undergrad What is the Relationship Between Lattice Points and Basis Balls?
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Graduate B.D. Cullity § C.D. Graham-Introduction Magnetic Materials Solutions
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Graduate Effective Spring Constant of a Chain Polymer
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Undergrad Is it true that isotropic biaxial strain does not lower C2 symmetry?
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High School Why don't the air atoms in the microwave warm up?
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Undergrad CM frame kinetic energy for a molecule
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Graduate Why is the spin orientation crucial in the Kondo effect?
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Undergrad Fermi-Liquid - amount of electrons available for the interaction
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Undergrad Vibrational energy in molecules
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