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Graduate Niobium Oxide Energy Band: What is the Value in eV?

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Graduate Trying to Understand Attractive Interactions

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Graduate Analytical expression for exchange-correlation energy in helium?

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Graduate Effective Bohr magneton?

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Undergrad Superconducting levitation and transportation

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Graduate Quote on ligh-matter interaction is needed

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Undergrad Actually what is the meaning of the holes

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Graduate How do composite bosons behave in a Bose-Einstein condensate?

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Graduate Between which layers first stimulation energy

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Graduate Why is a plasmon ocsilation considered a longitudinal wave?

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Graduate NLO question (second hyperpolarizability tensor)

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Graduate Kapitza's Nobel Prize Winning Contribution to Nuclear Fusion Insulation

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Undergrad How are X-rays emittted from laboratory plasma?

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Graduate Why quantum mechanics follows octet rule?

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3D Subatomic Particle and Molecule Creator

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Graduate Fermi statistics in experiments

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High School Why do inert gases have such high ionization energies?

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Graduate How does the dielectric function depend on frequency and wavevector?

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Graduate Calculating Electron-Electron Self Energy in Fermi Liquid Systems

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Graduate What are crystal planes: basis planes or ion planes?

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Graduate Group theory and characters table

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Graduate Boundary Conditions for Fermi Gas

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Graduate What Do Colors and Shapes Represent in Stereographic Projections?

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Graduate Maximum static charge on a gold sample before structural failure

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Graduate Is There a UV Lamp that Can Generate 150 nm Light for Bandgap Measurement?

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High School How do ions form in chemical reactions?

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Graduate Electrostatics and band structures?

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Undergrad Atomic structure and classification studies

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Graduate First Brillouin zone boundary for Si: pi/a or 2pi/a?

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Undergrad Why do we need a substrate while growing?

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Graduate Polariton BEC, Polariton Laser - Applications?

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Graduate Dispersion relation diagrams, phonons

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Graduate Predicting Crystal Structures in Metals: Is There a Simple Explanation?

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Graduate How does the Scherrer formula work in X-ray reflectivity?

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Graduate Why doesn't a cell phone antenna emit electrons?

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High School Understand the meaning of an electron

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Graduate Donor and acceptor levels in band diagrams

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Undergrad Examples of Cutting Edge Semiconductor Devices?

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Graduate Indirect absorption processes -

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Graduate Metastable 1s2s3p Excited State of Helium: Explanation

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Undergrad YBCO critical temperature not right

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Undergrad Calculating Charge Carrier Density in Materials: Formula and Table of Values

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Graduate Bose-Einstein Condensation in 1D and 2D Gases: Possibilities and Applications?

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Graduate Atom Electron cloud interaction with Energy

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Graduate How to include disorder in the numerical computation?

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Graduate What is Spintronics and How Does Spin-Orbit Coupling Play a Role?

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Undergrad Is it possible to use spectroscopy to see vibrations in a material?

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Graduate Gain saturation in laser cavity

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Graduate How many atoms does one phonon represent?

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Graduate Why do we need Gamma point in Band structure

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Graduate WHY is drift current through a PN junction independent of applied bias voltages?

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Graduate Why do atomic orbital densities resemble circular membrane modes?

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High School Do electrons have mass or are they pure energy?

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Graduate Is K2(Pt(CN)4Br0.3).3H2O an Example of Anisotropic Metallicity?

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Graduate Metal invisible in the ultraviolet?

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Undergrad Why are lanthanides and actinides separated from the main periodic table?

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Graduate Measuring effects of magnetic field on electrons in a tunneling state

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Undergrad How Can We Visualize a Hydrogen Atom as a Basketball?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics/ Ferromagnitism

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Graduate Two photon absorption coefficient of silicon

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Undergrad Permanent Magnets: How Energy Is Stored in Magnetic Fields

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Undergrad Question Concerning Coulomb's Law

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Undergrad How are materials brought to (near) absolute zero?

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Graduate Lattice Waves: Atom Chain Fixed at Ends or Free is Space?

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Graduate Why only first brillouin zone?

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Graduate Can the Band Structure Diagram be Represented in Real Space Instead of k-Space?

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Graduate Atoms Energy Emission, Absorption

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Graduate What Does the Order Parameter in BCS Theory Represent?

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Graduate Shape of Orbitals in Periodic Crystals: Hybridization and Energy Bands

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Graduate Understanding Phonons - Making Sense of Virtual Particles

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Graduate Photonic Band Structure Calculation

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Graduate Work function vs ionization potential for semiconductors

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Graduate Si ellipsoids of constant energy?

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Undergrad Can someone simply describe the definition of the chemical potential?

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Graduate Can surface potential indicate where electrons and holes are confined?

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Graduate Superconductivity in fullerides

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Graduate What is the reciprocal lattice structure of zinc-blende?

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Graduate Designing a Zeeman Slower for Scientists

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High School What is Shear Flow? Does it Impact Viscosity?

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Graduate What materials would maximize semiconductor efficiency if cost wasn't a constraint?

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Graduate Doping of semiconductors and fermi energy.

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Graduate Why are sound waves quantized in a lattice?

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Graduate Critical field for a superconductor - why?

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Graduate Atom and Electron Cloud Alignment

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Graduate Why is the Fermi level at the band gap midpoint in semiconductors?

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Graduate Is Bose-Einstein Condensation Possible in Two Dimensions?

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Undergrad Meaning of labs-on-a chip in imicrofluidic devices

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Undergrad Silicon exhibits metallic luster

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Graduate How to Calculate Transmission Spetrum

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Undergrad What knows the precise radius of these ions?

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Graduate Understanding Effective Mass of Holes in GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wells

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Graduate Life time in spontaneous emission for laser

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Graduate What happens when valence electrons are excited in isolated atoms?

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Graduate Why do superconductors expel static magnetic fields?

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Undergrad Objects melt and burned if a high energy ray is shined unto it?

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High School Water's Explosive Expansion: Can It Really Happen?

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Graduate Why Are the Results in My PDF Different from the Attached Paper?

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Graduate How Do Quantum Numbers and Wavefunctions Define States in a Fermi Gas?

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Graduate Why does sodium have a doublet?

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Graduate Why is orthogonality crucial in basis sets despite atomic orbital overlap?

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