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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?

  • Researcher X
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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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Graduate How to make graphene using tape really

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Graduate Does transfer matrix allows a similarity transformation?

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Graduate Critical exponents for the Heisenberg AFM spin-1/2 chain

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Graduate Electron number density of the earth

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Graduate How Does X-ray Diffraction Measure Crystal Structures in Solid State Physics?

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Graduate Solving Madelung Constant for NaCl Algorithm Problem

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Graduate What Does Omega 1 Represent in NMR Experiments?

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Graduate Elementary excitations VS. Quasiparticles

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Undergrad Atomic absorption spectroscopy

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Graduate Bragg diffraction or reflection

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Undergrad Discover the Energy-Efficient Process of Liquifying Oxygen for Power Generation

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Graduate How to distinguish different phonon branches?

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Graduate Thermal populations of atomic energy eigenstates

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Graduate Experimental dispersion relation of phonons

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Graduate What is the Hard-Core Boson Model with Infinite Point Repulsion Potential?

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Graduate Is it possible to stick, tie subatomic particles?

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Undergrad Understanding the Use of Wax Seals on Beer Bottles: A Brewer's Perspective

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Graduate Learning 1D Ising Model With Nearest Site Interaction

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Graduate XRD data: particle size, cell size etc

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Graduate Positive charge atomic form-factor

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Graduate Reduced Zone Scheme of Free Electron Gas

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Graduate Bloch's theorem for finite systems ?

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Graduate The Mysterious Nature of Neutrons: Stability & Binding

  • textbooks
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Graduate Deriving electrical conduction in 2d crystal

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Graduate The meaning of the sign of the wavefunction in electronic structure

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Graduate Flory Huggins theory for linear polymer chains

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Graduate First principle calculation of lattice structures

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Graduate Calculating Average Spins at Site i for Ising Model via Transfer Matrix

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Undergrad Control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale

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Graduate Two dirac cones are described by two bi-spinors of different chirality

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Graduate Toshiba claims germanium breakthrough for 16nm chips (article title)

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Graduate Find a SiC Heater for PLD System

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Graduate Why Does n=2 Not Produce an Equally Strong Peak in X-ray Diffraction?

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High School Can You Make a Laser That Can Burn?

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Graduate What is the ladder approximation and how does it work?

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Graduate Is the Effective Mass of a Superfluid Helium Atom Zero?

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Graduate Ginzberg-Landau and the Cooper Pair

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Graduate How to calculate the gap for a solid?

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Undergrad Electron position in transparent materials and bit more

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Graduate Photon Absorption: Can It Still Happen?

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Graduate Wannier-stark state calculation

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Graduate At 0k, why is fermi level halfway in bandgap?

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Undergrad Wave of phase change (MOVIE: Hot ice how-to)

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Graduate If helium is 'superfluid' at low temperatures

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Graduate Are conduction electrons localized in space?

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Graduate How indirect band semiconductors are used in lasers ?

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Graduate Wanted: Band Offsets for Quantum Wells

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Graduate What aspects of atom are discrete?

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Graduate Local density of states (LDOS) is

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Graduate Reflectivity of metals and elements

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Undergrad Plasmon vs Electrical Wave: Difference Explained

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High School Learn the Basics of Semiconductor Laser Operation

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Graduate Supercurrent can flow forever in a superconductor

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Graduate Laser question (non-molecular, bi-molecular and auger recombination)

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Graduate Band Gap Formation: Bragg Reflection & Standing Waves

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Graduate Effective mass of electrons in metals

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Graduate Building blocks of the conduction and valence band

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Undergrad Calculating Lattice Constant from Diffraction Pattern: Step-by-Step Guide

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Graduate Is helium truly a frictionless superfluid?

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Graduate Why Rb85 is difficult to bose-condense?

  • wdlang
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Undergrad Band gaps between metals and insulators

  • joel.martens
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High School What distinguishes a metal from a nonmetal in terms of atomic structure?

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Graduate Why do electrons in excited states decay to the ground state?

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Graduate A question on Fermi free gas model

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Graduate Calculating the Dielectric Constant of Cold Dilute Rubidium Gas

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Graduate Strange behavior of 3d level of Helium

  • MonsieurWise
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Graduate Do Phonons Have Momentum and Rest Mass?

  • granpa
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High School Glass Transparency: What Allows Visible Light to Pass Through?

  • live4physics
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Graduate Error in bandgap measurements of n-type Ge

  • joel.martens
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Graduate Is Bragg's Law Equation Modified for Different Incidence Angles?

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Graduate Chemical potential-fictitious atoms

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High School Questions About Atoms: Protons & Neutrons

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Graduate Band Gap in a Square Quantum Well

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Graduate How to Calculate Heat Capacity of One-Dimensional Anharmonic Oscillator?

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High School What is a diffusion path in scientific terms?

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Undergrad Microscopic theory of superconductivity

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Graduate Degrees of Freedom: Time an Atom/Molecule Factor?

  • cragar
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Lattice Constant Using Bragg's Law?

  • vebbie
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Graduate Fermi Energy in 2D: Find Relation w/ 3D E=h(cut square)k(square)/2m

  • hafsa
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Undergrad Azimuthal direction vector notation

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Graduate What is the typical resistance for GMR in 3-layer Fe-Cu-Fe configuration?

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Graduate Are BECs superfluid or vice versa or what?

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Graduate Why amorphous phase materials have wider bandgap?

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Undergrad Calculating the Dipole Moment of Benzene Rings

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Graduate Do SuperFluids respond to Magnetic Fields?

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Undergrad When were Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics first defined?

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Undergrad Reference for photoluminescence data?

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Undergrad Is Silicon Transparent to Infrared Light?

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