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Graduate Why is work function almost always in the range 4-6 eV?
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Graduate How Do F-Centres Influence Crystal Density?
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Graduate Harmonicity in phonon transport
- janakiraman
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Graduate What Is the Work Function of Anatase TiO2?
- solarbaby
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Graduate Maximum possible atomic number for a stable element
- nuby
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Graduate Solid State Palladium: 27 Atoms in a Unit Cell?
- PHY-101
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Graduate When the electrons hit the bandgap
- tonyhongxp
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Undergrad How do beta particles and gamma rays ionize atoms?
- pfalk
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Undergrad Are atoms 'perpetual machines'?
- Desiree
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Graduate Comparing simulated dispersion relations to experimental Silicon data
- lylos
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Graduate What is the Definition of Frustration in Physics?
- badphysicist
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Graduate Effect of Effective Mass on Material Band Structure
- Sahar
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Graduate Binding energy and radioactive decay
- Dave2007
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Graduate Why does a magnet levitate stably on a superconductor?
- Don Carnage
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Graduate Dispersion Relation and wavelength
- lylos
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Graduate Finding pinning for superconducting Z2 shim on 7T NMR after quench
- zen loki
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Graduate Understanding Percolation Threshold p_c on Triangular Lattices
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Graduate Quantum field theory of condensed matter
- malawi_glenn
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Undergrad What Happens During the Liquid-to-Solid Transition of Water?
- mikemense
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Undergrad Optical Transmission through thin films.
- G01
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Graduate Sheet resistance of 500 nm Ni coating is 1/10 bulk resistivity
- physicistX
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Graduate What factors affect electron emission from metals?
- gareth
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Graduate Lattice constant of martensite?
- erin85
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Graduate Trouble with LAMMPS: Melting Gold at 100K?
- hillgreen
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High School Electrons colliding with solar panel
- Quantom
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What are a few good semiconducting materials?
- Qaiphyx
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Undergrad Periodic table of elements is inaccurate
- chc_cac
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Graduate Transmitting Images through a Coherent Fiber Bundle
- petr1243
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Graduate Future Prospects for Nuclear Physics
- jal
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Graduate Enhancing Superconductivity with Linear Superconductors
- Relena
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Undergrad Can Electrons Travel Through Quartz?
- gareth
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Graduate How Does Oxygen's Magnetic Dipole Influence Radiation Absorption?
- Relena
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Graduate Can atoms pass through each other when vibrated at high speeds?
- MrPickle
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High School Compress Water: Difficult or Not?
- disregardthat
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Graduate How does coulomb blockade work in single electron transistors?
- tianyi.tan
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Graduate Principal axes for orthotropic material?
- mikewinifred
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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?
- Rasine
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Graduate Anderson Hamiltonian (product of number operators) in 1st quantization?
- AA1983
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Graduate How to understand the refractive index of metals
- zhanghe
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Undergrad What attracts and repels within an atom?
- metapad
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High School What is in the Empty Space of an Atom?
- nancy1251
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Graduate Kramers-Kronig: Solving for Dielectric Permeability E'(w)
- Spy2008
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Graduate Needing explanation of Kittel Intro to Solid States chapter 4.
- lylos
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Graduate Characterising Coal Char Particles with XRD
- rubensudhakar
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Graduate Is the Ground State Energy of the Two-Dimensional XX Model Known?
- Gec
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Undergrad Why do blue LEDs have a higher forward voltage than expected?
- madmike159
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Graduate What is material property orientation in orthotropic materials?
- mikewinifred
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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
- Feynmanfan
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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?
- TimH
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Undergrad Understanding Four Wave Mixing and Its Role in Nonlinear Optics
- wdlang
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Graduate How do I calculate zero point energy for a BCC solid?
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Graduate Basic density functional theory
- kttsbnj
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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
- no_math_plz
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Graduate Photoinduced absorption spectroscopy
- InTuoVultu
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Graduate Applying Lorentzian Broadening in Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
- castep_nut
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Graduate Equation of state of an electron gas
- vinay uppal
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Graduate Why does light interact with electrons in a conductor without losing energy?
- Lacan
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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 Do kinetic and potential energy of electrons increase when atoms bond in metals?
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Graduate Can Light Be Compressed into Matter?
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High School How far do atomic vibrations travel from a source?
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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 Why does a nucleus weigh less than its component protons and neutrons?
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Graduate Resources for learning K-space, Brillouin zones, and Bloch waves
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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
- cr_el
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Undergrad What is the significance of blocking temperature in magnetic materials?
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Graduate How are orbital frequencies of single atomic and covalent electrons determined?
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Graduate Ideal conductor vs superconductor
- Raze2dust
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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 Why is amorphous glass more transparent than crystalline materials?
- n0_3sc
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Graduate What is the Brus Approximation for semiconductor band gaps?
- String_man
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High School Why macro model bad for atomic world?
- atom888
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Graduate What is antiferroquadrupolar ordering?
- mikeey
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Graduate Frustration in spin glasses and other systems
- mkrems
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Undergrad What is a 'hole' in the context of solid state?
- Nusc
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Graduate Relation between gap and order in spin model
- navigator
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Graduate Why Is Fourier Transform Used in Diagonalizing Operators in Mean Field Theory?
- tirrel
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High School How do diodes (pn junction) work?
- DaTario
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Graduate Lorentz force in superconductors
- Tiresome2
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Graduate Independent and interacting electron models
- Nusc
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Graduate Are Cooper pairs fermions or bosons?
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