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Undergrad Electron velocity and impact ionization?
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Graduate Is There a Universal Function to Describe Properties in Solid State Physics?
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Graduate Is Hot Ice Possible? | Learn About Water Solid State Limits
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High School Emission and Absorption bands?
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Graduate Can Fullerenes Enhance Ion Propellant Efficiency for Lunar Missions?
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Graduate Wen bosonic lattice model, chiral interactions, noncommutative space
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Graduate Uncovering the Mysteries of Bloch Theorem
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Graduate How is 3D d-wave superconductivity band?
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Graduate What determines if a material is an insulator or conductor?
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Undergrad Oxygen energy levels and resonant wavelengths?
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Graduate Two questions on solid state physics
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High School Why is the air transparent and what makes most gases have low absorption?
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Undergrad Energy/Velocity of a free electron?
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Graduate Semi-Infinite DFT Software
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Graduate Why lanczos algorithm is useful for finding the ground state energy?
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Graduate How Can Electron Resonance Be Induced Using Pulsed Electrical Fields?
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Undergrad Conductivity & Atomic Packing Factor
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Graduate Ionization Processes in an Electric Field: Single vs. Multiple Ionization
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Graduate Understanding Phonons on a Lattice: Seeking Insight from Niles
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Undergrad Atom Excitation: Absorption Peaks or short wavelengths?
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Graduate Electron phonon interaction hamiltonian problem
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Graduate Photon Absorption wavelength(s) to aid ionization?
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Graduate Where Can I Find Problems with Tiablikov Green Functions?
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Graduate Vibrational Entropy in Binary AxB1-x Alloy
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Graduate Looking for an article about MRI
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Undergrad Absorption line spectra and emission line spectra
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Undergrad Solid State: What is a Conventional Cell?
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Graduate Cross section of the photodissociation of CH
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Graduate What is the Meaning of <n> in Bose-Einstein Statistics?
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Graduate Stabilization of half-filled and fully-filled orbitals
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Graduate Net Magnetic Moment on Typical Ferromagnets
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Graduate Understanding Magnetic Dichroism and Hybridization Gaps: Band Symmetry Question
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Graduate Fractional quantum Hall effect, Anyon, Sundance Bilson-Thoompson
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Graduate Stripping Oxygen Atoms of Electrons and Exciting to 4th Energy Level
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Graduate Question about electrons and nuclei
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Undergrad Why Does a Steel Core Remain Magnetized After Current is Turned Off?
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Undergrad Question on excitation energy?
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Graduate Can anyone tell me how impurity in superconductors changes the Tc?
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Graduate Magnetic Moment of Electron: Intrinsic Spin & Dipole Moment
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Undergrad Band Gap in Insulators: Values & Breakdown Voltage
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Graduate Interpreting Dispersion Curve for Phonons & Other Atoms
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Undergrad Understanding Cross Section in Physics: Dimension and Formula Explanation
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Undergrad Pentavalent Elements & Doping Semiconductors: Why Not 6 Valence Electrons?
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Undergrad Why do dopants in semiconductors only form single bonds with silicon?
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Graduate P-N junction - Need explanation
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Graduate From sum to integral in solid state
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Graduate What Does It Mean When the Fermi Level is in the Band Gap?
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Graduate Exploring Electron Scattering and Compton Wavelength Shifts
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Graduate Topology in many particle systems
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Graduate Understanding Self-Consistent Solutions in Kohn-Sham Equations
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Graduate Understanding the Kirkendall Effect and Its Impact on Diffusion in Materials
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Graduate Diffusion Equation with source term
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Graduate Unexpected Peaks in XRD: Causes Besides Doping?
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Graduate Cobalt X-ray tube over Copper X-ray tube
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Graduate How Was a Single Molecule of Pentacene Pictured?
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Undergrad Mass Defect: Proton and Neutron Weight Change?
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Graduate Spontaneous atomic disintegration.
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Graduate Is a Pseudo-Wavefunction Really a Mixed State?
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Graduate Complex dielectric constant implies absorption?
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Graduate Molecular orbitals don't get it
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Graduate Absorption coefficient per unit path length determined for excitation
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Graduate Understanding Bragg's Law in X-Ray Diffraction
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Graduate Critical density of water - phase transitions
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Graduate Orthogonality of Matsubara Plane Waves
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Graduate C2H4 Structure: Sigma & Pi Orbitales Determinations
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Graduate X-Ray Diffraction: Explaining Visible Light Reflection
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Graduate Determining k-points or citical points of NaCl
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Necessary for Understanding Exchange Coupling Mechanism?
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Graduate Miller's Indices: Find in FCC & BCC, Calculate Density of Lattice Points
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Graduate Photodetachment Cross Section Formulas: Explained
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Graduate Electron Phonon Interaction Potential
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Graduate Madelung Constant: Definition & Explanation
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Graduate Why Do Bound States Exhibit Flat Dispersions in Spectroscopy?
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High School Perfect crystal - is there such thing?
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Graduate Can Bose-Einstein condensates be created with decaying isotopes?
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Graduate Piezoelectric Sensors: EMCF, Materials & FERAMS
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Graduate How Can We Visualize the Primitive Vectors of a Basic Cubic Lattice?
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High School Proton & Electron: Why Don't They Collapse?
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Graduate How does disorder change superconductor's Tc?
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Graduate How to establish the hamiltonian matrix as soon as possible?
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Undergrad Why does the strength of a covalent bond depend on the loss of energy?
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Graduate Strongly interacting vs Weakly interacting particles
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Graduate Exchange interaction in solid state physics
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Undergrad Why Does CuNi Have Decreasing Resistivity with Increasing Temperature?
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Graduate X-ray tube and photon energy question?
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Graduate Cancelation of electron orbital angular momentum
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Undergrad In any XRD pattern, the intensity unit considered as [a.u.] which
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Graduate Electric dipole transition between hyperfine levels of the ground state
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Graduate Multiple Photon Absorption Question
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Graduate How to compare two similar structures?
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Graduate What Are the Exact Scherrer Shape Factors for Different Crystallite Structures?
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Graduate Nuclear magnetic resonance T1 relaxation time definition
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Undergrad Uncovering the On/Off Ratio of Silicon Transistors
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Graduate Could Al/O Stoichiometries Beyond Al2O3 Exist?
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Graduate Josephson Junctions to Understanding & References
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Undergrad Can any one explain about electron doping and Hole doping
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Graduate Limit to the strength, the hardness, and the density of a material?
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Graduate Stirling's approximation in Fermi Statistics derivation
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Graduate Why k in E(k) diagram continuous?
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Undergrad Why the name Reciprocal lattice ?
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