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What does the electrical conductivity of the elements depends from?
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Visualize what chirality physically means
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What Are Heisenberg Spin Chains?
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Why do some elements require melting for them to bond
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Dipositronium Molecule Synthesized
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Energy level jump in stimulated emision
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Why does water consist of 2/3 hydrogen and 1/3 oxygen?
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The Metal-Dielectric Interface in a Capacitor
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Understanding Coulomb Staircase Properties
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Excitation, ionization, TEMPERATURE?
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Atoms: Properties, Charges & Nuclear Forces
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How do electrons behave in metals?
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Electron distribution on capacitors
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What Is the Atomic Electric Dipole Moment and Its Role in Van der Waals Binding?
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Density of States: IR Transitions in CO2 Molecule
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What Is the Landau-Khalatnikov Theory?
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Individual contributions of molecular orbitals to the total density of states
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Repulsive term in Born-Mayer potentials
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Motional Narrowing: Ask an NMR Expert
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Experimental calculation of Birefriengence
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Density of states summation?
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Coordination Number relating to Atom Size - Why?
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Electronic structure - Outer shell
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Help, first Brillouin zone and K points
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Can Continuous Pressure on Piezoelectric Crystals Generate a Constant Voltage?
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How can I compile CASTEP in Linux?
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Niobium Oxide Energy Band: What is the Value in eV?
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Trying to Understand Attractive Interactions
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Understanding the Exchange-Correlation Energy in Density Functional Theory
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Effective Bohr magneton?
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Actually what is the meaning of the holes
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How do composite bosons behave in a Bose-Einstein condensate?
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Between which layers first stimulation energy
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Why is a plasmon ocsilation considered a longitudinal wave?
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NLO question (second hyperpolarizability tensor)
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Kapitza's Nobel Prize Winning Contribution to Nuclear Fusion Insulation
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How are X-rays emittted from laboratory plasma?
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Why quantum mechanics follows octet rule?
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3D Subatomic Particle and Molecule Creator
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Fermi statistics in experiments
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Ionization Energy: What Makes Inert Gases Special?
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Dielectric Function: Relation to Frequency & Wavevector
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Calculating Electron-Electron Self Energy in Fermi Liquid Systems
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Crystal Planes: Definition & Meaning
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Group theory and characters table
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Boundary Conditions for Fermi Gas
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What Do Colors and Shapes Represent in Stereographic Projections?
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Static Charge & Samples: Exploding Limits
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Is There a UV Lamp that Can Generate 150 nm Light for Bandgap Measurement?
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How do ions form in chemical reactions?
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Electrostatics and band structures?
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Atomic structure and classification studies
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Understanding 3D Si Dispersion Relations & Reciprocal Lattice Vectors
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Why do we need a substrate while growing?
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Polariton BEC, Polariton Laser - Applications?
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Dispersion relation diagrams, phonons
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Predicting Crystal Structures in Metals: Is There a Simple Explanation?
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Understanding the Scherrer Formula for X-Ray Reflectivity Studies
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Understanding the Photoelectric Effect and Its Quantum Electronic Nature
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Understand the meaning of an electron
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Donor and acceptor levels in band diagrams
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Examples of Cutting Edge Semiconductor Devices?
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Indirect absorption processes -
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Metastable 1s2s3p Excited State of Helium: Explanation
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YBCO critical temperature not right
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Calculating Charge Carrier Density in Materials: Formula and Table of Values
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Bose-Einstein Condensation in 1D and 2D Gases: Possibilities and Applications?
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Atom Electron cloud interaction with Energy
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How to include disorder in the numerical computation?
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What is Spintronics and How Does Spin-Orbit Coupling Play a Role?
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Is it possible to use spectroscopy to see vibrations in a material?
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Gain saturation in laser cavity
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Understanding the Concept of Phonons
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Why do we need Gamma point in Band structure
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WHY is drift current through a PN junction independent of applied bias voltages?
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Happy 50th Birthday, BCS Theory
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Atomic Orbitals & Circular Membranes: Is There a Connection?
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Do Electrons Have Mass or Just Energy?
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Is K2(Pt(CN)4Br0.3).3H2O an Example of Anisotropic Metallicity?
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Metal invisible in the ultraviolet?
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Question about lanthanides and actinides
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Measuring effects of magnetic field on electrons in a tunneling state
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How Can We Visualize a Hydrogen Atom as a Basketball?
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Quantum Mechanics/ Ferromagnitism
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Two photon absorption coefficient of silicon
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Permanent Magnets: How Energy Is Stored in Magnetic Fields
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Question Concerning Coulomb's Law
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How are materials brought to (near) absolute zero?
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Lattice Waves: Atom Chain Fixed at Ends or Free is Space?
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Why only first brillouin zone?
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Can the Band Structure Diagram be Represented in Real Space Instead of k-Space?
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Atoms Energy Emission, Absorption
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What Does the Order Parameter in BCS Theory Represent?
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Shape of Orbitals in Periodic Crystals: Hybridization and Energy Bands
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Understanding Phonons - Making Sense of Virtual Particles
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Photonic Band Structure Calculation
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Defining Work Function for Semiconductors
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Si ellipsoids of constant energy?
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Can someone simply describe the definition of the chemical potential?
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Surface Potential: Measuring Confined Electrons & Holes
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