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Graduate Superconductor ring: shielding currents in different directions
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Undergrad Entangling atoms in a molecule
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Undergrad Is the current density operator derived from fundamental considerations?
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Undergrad Ramsey spectroscopy and spin echoes
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Undergrad How does detuned laser frequency affect atomic dipole forces?
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Undergrad Confused about spontaneous emission
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Undergrad Probe absorption and dressed states
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High School How does the doping concentration affect the depletion width?
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Undergrad Confused about dressed states of atom
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Undergrad The sum of S and L quantum numbers
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Graduate What Are Examples of Exotic Order-Disorder Phase Transitions?
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Graduate Superconductor in a hollow cylinder -- two different end states. Why?
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Graduate All-atom simulation and coarse-grained simulations
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High School Missing mass in atomic systems
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High School Understanding Crystal Structures: Energy Considerations
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Graduate Crystal structures and number of bonds of each atom
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Graduate The most striking example of vacuum fluctuations affecting experiments
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Undergrad Can Quantum Entanglement Enhance Atomic Measurement Accuracy?
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Graduate Why Do Voids Form at the Thin-Film Substrate Interface After Annealing?
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Undergrad Molecules when Born-Oppenheimer approximation doesn't work
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Undergrad Energy of donor or acceptor levels in semiconductors
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Undergrad How does the interatomic spacing of alloys differ from that of pure crystals?
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Undergrad Changes in angular momentum for ro-vibrational transitions
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Undergrad Discover SiGe Alloy: Energy Band Diagram & Info
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Graduate Why Do We Need Alchemical Methods to Compute Gibbs Energy Changes?
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Undergrad Fermi level change in semiconductors
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Graduate Energy of valence electrons from period of the periodic table
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Undergrad Electron angular momentum in diatomic molecules
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Undergrad What kx/ky Values Are Used for Graphene Band Structure Plots?
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Undergrad Obtain the Density of State using the Green function
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Undergrad Recombination and open-circuit voltage in solar cells
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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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Graduate 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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Graduate 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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High School Calculating the Total Energy of a lattice w/ the Madelung constant
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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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Graduate 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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