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Graduate Binding energy and radioactive decay
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Graduate Dispersion Relation and wavelength
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Graduate Troubleshooting Quenched NMR: Stuck on Superconducting Shim Z2
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Graduate Understanding Percolation Threshold p_c on Triangular Lattices
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Graduate Quantum field theory of condensed matter
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Undergrad What Happens During the Liquid-to-Solid Transition of Water?
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Undergrad Optical Transmission through thin films.
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Graduate Four Point Probe Measurement Help for 500 nm Ni Coating
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Graduate What factors affect electron emission from metals?
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Graduate Lattice constant of martensite?
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Graduate Trouble with LAMMPS: Melting Gold at 100K?
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High School Electrons colliding with solar panel
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What are a few good semiconducting materials?
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Undergrad Periodic table of elements is inaccurate
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Graduate Transmitting Images through a Coherent Fiber Bundle
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Graduate Future Prospects for Nuclear Physics
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Graduate Enhancing Superconductivity with Linear Superconductors
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Undergrad Can Electrons Travel Through Quartz?
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Graduate How Does Oxygen's Magnetic Dipole Influence Radiation Absorption?
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Graduate Can atoms pass through each other when vibrated at high speeds?
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High School Compress Water: Difficult or Not?
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Graduate Coulomb Blockade & Single Electron Transistors Explained
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Graduate Principal axes for orthotropic material?
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Undergrad Diffusion vs migration in solid state
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Graduate What Are the Characteristics of Au-Fe Spin Glass?
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Graduate Anderson Hamiltonian (product of number operators) in 1st quantization?
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Graduate How to understand the refractive index of metals
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Undergrad Basic Structure & Behavior of The Atom Oh, and hi
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High School What is in the Empty Space of an Atom?
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Graduate Kramers-Kronig: Solving for Dielectric Permeability E'(w)
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Graduate Needing explanation of Kittel Intro to Solid States chapter 4.
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Graduate Characterising Coal Char Particles with XRD
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Graduate Is the Ground State Energy of the Two-Dimensional XX Model Known?
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Undergrad Why do blue LEDs have a higher forward voltage than expected?
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Graduate What is material property orientation in orthotropic materials?
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Undergrad Why Doesn't the Electron Lose Energy in Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom?
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Graduate Is Free-electron model := Drude Model (of metals) ?
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Graduate Why Do Free Electron Energy Levels Appear as Multiple Parabolas?
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Graduate Be2Si: Group Symmetry Requirements of a Metal
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Graduate Ohm's Law derivation from Drude Model
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Graduate How Does the Meissner Effect Cause a Superconductor to Levitate?
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Undergrad What's so special about Cu, Ag, and Au? fermi level? band gap?
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Undergrad Can electrostatic forces explain electron configurations?
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Undergrad Understanding Four Wave Mixing and Its Role in Nonlinear Optics
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Graduate Zero Point Energy Calculation for BCC Solids | Chemist
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Graduate Basic density functional theory
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Graduate Why Does Photoionisation Probability Decrease with Increasing X-ray Energy?
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Undergrad Ionic Conductivity in Solids: Explain, Links & Books
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Graduate Born-Von Karman boundary conditions
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Graduate Photoinduced absorption spectroscopy
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Graduate Applying Lorentzian Broadening in Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
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Graduate Equation of state of an electron gas
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Graduate Why does light interact with electrons in a conductor without losing energy?
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Graduate Inverse FFT how to scale the x-axis
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Graduate Properties of superfluid Helium
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Graduate Uses of type I superconductors
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Graduate Could There Be Something Out There?
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Graduate Atomic Bonding in Metals: Kinetic & Potential Energy
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Graduate Can Light Be Compressed into Matter?
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High School Now the title: How much effect?
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Graduate How Do I Tackle Quantum Open Systems in Theoretical Research?
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Graduate The Uncertainty of Size in Subatomic Particles
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Graduate Zapping a semiconductor with a laser
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Undergrad Question on Nuclear Energy: Why Does a Nuclei Weigh Less?
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Graduate General Help Solid State Physics
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Graduate Molecular spin alignment having macro torque effects?
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Undergrad Photon Energy Level: Why Green Light Falls Greater Energy Levels
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Undergrad What Causes Molecules to Repel Light Particles?
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Graduate Why Does Nottingham Heating Occur in Field Emission?
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Graduate Physics of Ion Traps: E-books and Textbooks
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Undergrad What is the significance of blocking temperature in magnetic materials?
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Graduate Orbital Frequencies: Single Atomic & Covalent Electron Determination
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Graduate Ideal conductor vs superconductor
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Graduate Transition temperature of YBaCuO
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Graduate Landau-Lif z-Gilbert vs. Bloch
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Glass Transparency: A Scientific Explanation
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Graduate What is the Brus Approximation for semiconductor band gaps?
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High School Why macro model bad for atomic world?
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Graduate What is a Quadrupole? Antiferroquadrupolar Ordering State Explained
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Graduate What Makes a System 'Frustrated' in Spin Glasses and Other Physical Systems?
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Undergrad What is a 'hole' in the context of solid state?
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Graduate Relation between gap and order in spin model
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Graduate Why Is Fourier Transform Used in Diagonalizing Operators in Mean Field Theory?
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High School How do diodes (pn junction) work?
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Graduate Lorentz force in superconductors
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Graduate Independent and interacting electron models
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Graduate Understanding the Nature of Cooper Pairs: Fermions or Bosons?
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Graduate How to understand light and mass interaction
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Graduate Irreducible representation of C3v
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Undergrad Superconductivity: Zero Resistance & Its Effects
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Graduate How do quantum fluctuations drive phase transitions at absolute zero?
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Graduate Effective Mass & Its Effects on Crystalline Structures
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Graduate Do Different Quantum Numbers Allow Energy Bands to Overlap?
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Undergrad Some questions about ion trap?
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Graduate Application of quantum field theory to condensed matter physics
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Graduate Periodic Table for solid state physicists
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Graduate How Does Flux and Voltage Quantization Occur in Superconductors?
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Undergrad How can we explaine the adhesion force?
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Graduate Meaning of Zeros of Partition function
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