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Graduate How Do F-Centres Influence Crystal Density?

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Graduate Harmonicity in phonon transport

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Graduate What Is the Work Function of Anatase TiO2?

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Graduate Maximum Atomic Weight: What is Possible Beyond 150?

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Graduate Solid State Palladium: 27 Atoms in a Unit Cell?

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Graduate When the electrons hit the bandgap

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Undergrad Ionizing particles (alpha & beta)

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Undergrad Are atoms 'perpetual machines'?

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Graduate Analyzing Data: Comparing Plots to Experimental Data

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Graduate What is the Definition of Frustration in Physics?

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Graduate Effect of Effective Mass on Material Band Structure

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Graduate Binding energy and radioactive decay

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Graduate What Makes the Meissner Effect Essential for Superconductor Stability?

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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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