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Possible typo in Ashcroft & Mermin's book?
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Energy conservation in heating by irradiation
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How Many Bravais Lattices Exist?
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Transition from valence band to conduction at T above 0K + procedure
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Indirect Transition in indirect semicondutor material
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Free Electron Model: Why periodic boundary conditions and what is L ?
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Research which involves some semiconductors
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Non-equilibrium conduction electrons
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Copper oxide plane and brillouin zone
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Why Are Reciprocal Quantities Used to Define Atomic Planes?
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BCS Theory & Cooper Pairs in Cuprate Superconductors
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Generic formula including many-body effects for field emission current
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BCS Theory: Noobish Question Explained
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Atomic Radius: Uncovering How It's Figured Out A2 Physics
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Lattice field theory in solid state physics
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Trapping Electrons in Semiconductors: Explained
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Is there a formula for the temperature dependence of Debye temperature?
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What is the size of water particles in gas and water phases?
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Order parameter of charge density wave in one dimension
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Understanding Exchange Bias: An Introduction for Beginners
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Exploring Reciprocal Space in Crystallography
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Calculating Stress Tensor and Voltage for MEMS Project
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Can Ultra High Temperatures and Densities Reveal New States of Matter?
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Is the Schroedinger equation not fundamental in BCS theory?
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Question about Spectral Density at the Fermi level
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Question about fine-structure and free vacuum constants
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Van der Waals radius not applicable to most elements?
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Why is work function almost always in the range 4-6 eV?
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How Do F-Centres Influence Crystal Density?
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Harmonicity in phonon transport
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What Is the Work Function of Anatase TiO2?
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Maximum Atomic Weight: What is Possible Beyond 150?
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Solid State Palladium: 27 Atoms in a Unit Cell?
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When the electrons hit the bandgap
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Ionizing particles (alpha & beta)
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Are atoms 'perpetual machines'?
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What is the Definition of Frustration in Physics?
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Effect of Effective Mass on Material Band Structure
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Binding energy and radioactive decay
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What Makes the Meissner Effect Essential for Superconductor Stability?
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Dispersion Relation and wavelength
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Troubleshooting Quenched NMR: Stuck on Superconducting Shim Z2
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Understanding Percolation Threshold p_c on Triangular Lattices
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Quantum field theory of condensed matter
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What Happens During the Liquid-to-Solid Transition of Water?
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Optical Transmission through thin films.
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What factors affect electron emission from metals?
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Lattice constant of martensite?
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Electrons colliding with solar panel
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What are a few good semiconducting materials?
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Periodic table of elements is inaccurate
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Transmitting Images through a Coherent Fiber Bundle
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Future Prospects for Nuclear Physics
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Enhancing Superconductivity with Linear Superconductors
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Can Electrons Travel Through Quartz?
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How Does Oxygen's Magnetic Dipole Influence Radiation Absorption?
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Can atoms pass through each other when vibrated at high speeds?
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Compress Water: Difficult or Not?
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Coulomb Blockade & Single Electron Transistors Explained
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Principal axes for orthotropic material?
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Diffusion vs migration in solid state
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What Are the Characteristics of Au-Fe Spin Glass?
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Anderson Hamiltonian (product of number operators) in 1st quantization?
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How to understand the refractive index of metals
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What is in the Empty Space of an Atom?
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Kramers-Kronig: Solving for Dielectric Permeability E'(w)
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Characterising Coal Char Particles with XRD
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Is the Ground State Energy of the Two-Dimensional XX Model Known?
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Why do blue LEDs have a higher forward voltage than expected?
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What is material property orientation in orthotropic materials?
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Why Doesn't the Electron Lose Energy in Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom?
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Is Free-electron model := Drude Model (of metals) ?
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Why Do Free Electron Energy Levels Appear as Multiple Parabolas?
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Be2Si: Group Symmetry Requirements of a Metal
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Ohm's Law derivation from Drude Model
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How Does the Meissner Effect Cause a Superconductor to Levitate?
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What's so special about Cu, Ag, and Au? fermi level? band gap?
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Can electrostatic forces explain electron configurations?
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Understanding Four Wave Mixing and Its Role in Nonlinear Optics
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Basic density functional theory
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Why Does Photoionisation Probability Decrease with Increasing X-ray Energy?
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Ionic Conductivity in Solids: Explain, Links & Books
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