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High School Chemical Potential μ in Solids
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Undergrad Why are crystals more conductive then amorphous structures?
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Undergrad Biological solid state physics
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Undergrad Rotating Molecules: Energies, Angular Momentum & Wavefunctions
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High School What Is the Role of Angle Potentials in Atomic Interactions?
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Graduate Piezoelectricity and the Lorentz Harmonic Oscillator?
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Undergrad Is the Isotope Shift the Same for Different Vibrational Levels in Molecules?
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Undergrad Photon induced magnetic effects
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Graduate What are the frontiers and challenges in condensed matter physics?
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Graduate What is the role of transverse optical (TO) phonons?
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Undergrad How can phonons "travel" if they are excitations of normal modes?
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High School What are the different ways to create negative effective mass
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High School Properties of graphene/borophene etc.
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Proof that c/a=RootOf(8/3) for Hexigonal Close Packed (HCP)
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Undergrad Change in chemical potential energy from nuclear decay
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Undergrad Transitions in diatomic molecules
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Undergrad What force potential should I use for star formations?
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High School A doubt on Rutherford's Scattering experiment
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High School A doubt on Thomson's Experiments to determine the value of e / m_e
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Undergrad Free electron gas band structure?
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Undergrad Why the reflected angle is the same as incident in x-ray diffraction?
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Undergrad Group of Wave Vector for k - Action of Space Group
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Graduate Edge state question for a 2-D material and the quantum Hall effect
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Graduate Superconductivity: Current and Magnetic Field Limitations
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Graduate Skew scattering and its proportional behaviour to conductivity
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Undergrad Ways to minimize scattering as T increases
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Undergrad Magnetic momentum alignment and precession
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Graduate How to obtain the spectrum for a given atom or simple molecule?
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Graduate Debye Model Q&A: Interpreting Expression & Link to Einstein's
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Undergrad Mobility and resistivity as a function of temperature
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Undergrad What is the behavior of photons inside glass?
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Undergrad Bloch functions and momentum of electrons in a lattice
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Graduate Visualizing water molecular dynamics in an electromagnetic field
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Undergrad Less binding energy, increased atom energy?
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Graduate Bloch theory on hexagonal lattice
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Graduate Current spreading decreases resistance?
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Graduate Dipoles on a clean surface in vacuum
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Graduate Minibands and Minigaps in Quantum Cascade lasers
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Undergrad Gaussian beam in a Fabry-Perot interferometer
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Undergrad Photovoltaic Effect: Electron Movement & Mass Change
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High School Can Materials Change Properties in Response to Different Radiations?
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Does the quantum Hall effect come under the category condensed matter?
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High School Highly conductive, reflective and heat resistant material
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High School Conduction Band Filled: Can Semiconductor Act as Insulator?
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Undergrad When two surfaces rub against each other, do they lose atoms?
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Graduate Getting the emissivity from scratch
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Undergrad What is an electron hole pair?
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Understanding Atomic Decay Pathways
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Graduate What can the Fermi surface tell us about a material's properties?
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Undergrad How a mirror works: condensed matter explanation
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Graduate Electronic band structure of iron superconductor BaFe2As2
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Undergrad Can you tell which solid a substance is by analyzing the phonons only?
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Graduate Do acoustic phonons disappear in charge density wave states?
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Undergrad Understanding Laser Initiation: The Role of Spontaneous Emission Explained
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Undergrad Understanding Lasers: Questions and Answers
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High School Doping in semicondctors (n type)
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Graduate Explanation of the Diagram of the Rashba Effect
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Graduate Coulomb and Exchange Integrals
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Graduate Exploring Rocket Exhaust Plume Molecules in the Upper Atmosphere
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Graduate Rashba-Effect and Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect
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Undergrad Best models to describe molecules
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Undergrad Molecular Bond in H2+: Explained
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Graduate Trying to meaningfully deconvolute IR absorption spectra
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Graduate What is the meaning of "modulated physical systems"?
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Graduate How can I understand 4-point-measurements?
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Graduate Please help me understand this HO energy in He4 gas
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Graduate Why do I need to move the detector in a Goniometer to 2-omega?
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Graduate Understanding Spin Relaxation: A Brief Exploration
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Undergrad Gold's absorbance of blue light
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Undergrad Why are there not more ferromagnetic Materials?
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Graduate Graphene's Hubbard U and nanotube's U
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Graduate How can a spin moment align parallel to an external field?
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Undergrad Why Do Different Primitive Unit Cells for Diamond Look So Different?
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Undergrad Spectrometer vs Spectrometry vs Spectroscopy
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Graduate Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Liquids
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Spin-Orbit-Torque: Where is the damping-like Term in the pic and why?
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Undergrad Interaction path = mean free path?
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Undergrad Are electron bands symmetric in the reciprocal space?
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Graduate SiC operation at high temperatures
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Graduate Does molybdenum react with an Argon plasma powered by RF power?
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Undergrad Why do we need He in a He-Ne laser?
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Graduate What Happens When Semiconductor Intrinsic Carrier Density Exceeds 10^15 cm^-3?
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Graduate Effective mass of the electron for Si
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Undergrad Averge orbital distance of electrons
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Graduate Why do we study quantum spin liquids?
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Undergrad Periodic electron motion in a perfect conductor using a semiclassical model
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Fermi Temperature and Black-body radiation
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Magnetic neutron scattering in hole doped cuprate superconductors
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How Does BCS-BEC Crossover Impact Superconductors and Ultracold Gases?
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Kinetic Energy and Radiant Energy levels
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Graduate What is the significance of a 'macroscopic number' in Bose-Einstein condensates?
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Undergrad Lattice specific heat, help understanding a passage in Ziman's book
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High School What Fills the Space Between the Nucleus and Electron Shells in an Atom?
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Undergrad Can Molecular Distances Determine the Volume of Objects?
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Undergrad Molecular Vibrations: Rotational and Translational Movement
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Graduate Binding energies with muonic structures
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Undergrad Pinch-Off region of MOS-FET in punch-through?
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Undergrad Is Total Angular Momentum Conserved in the Hydrogen Ion Molecule H₂⁺?
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Graduate What are the different types of Josephson junctions?
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Graduate I made a website to index TEM diffraction patterns
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