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Undergrad Why the name Reciprocal lattice ?
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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
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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?
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Undergrad Band gaps between metals and insulators
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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
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Graduate Do Phonons Have Momentum and Rest Mass?
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High School Glass Transparency: What Allows Visible Light to Pass Through?
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Graduate Error in bandgap measurements of n-type Ge
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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?
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Lattice Constant Using Bragg's Law?
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Graduate Fermi Energy in 2D: Find Relation w/ 3D E=h(cut square)k(square)/2m
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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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Graduate Twin Grain Boundary and Symmetric Tilt Grain boundary.
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Graduate What does a high Debye temperature signify?
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High School Rutherford Atom Model: Did He Know Structure of Alpha Particles?
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Undergrad What Causes the Mass Defect in a 15N Nucleus?
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Graduate Explain molar absorptivity to a dumb physicist.
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Graduate Understanding Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy in Solids
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Undergrad How Did Rutherford Confirm Alpha Particles Struck the Zinc Sulfide Screen?
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High School If diamonds are made of carbon? and coal is made out carbon
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Graduate Partition Function of CO2 at 1000K - Database?
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Graduate Question on Molecular dynamics programming
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Graduate Crystal Planes, Miller Indices: Cubic Lattice
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