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Graduate DFT calculations for metal oxide semiconductors and graphene oxide
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High School What occurs when electrons stop orbiting the nucleus?
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Undergrad Thermal penetration depth experiment
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Undergrad How can I calculate the lattice parameter for building Argon atoms using LAMMPS?
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Undergrad Are the electrons in the conduction band completely free?
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Undergrad Energy of Conduction and Valence Band in Opposing Directions
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Graduate Relativistic Effects on Particles and Gases
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Undergrad Phonon Number Conservation in a Single Mode Oscillation Experiment
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Undergrad Bose Einstein Condensate For Oxygen 16 and Oxygen 18
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High School Why don't solids always stick together?
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Undergrad Damage threshold of short pulses....
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Graduate Laser Ablation of a fused silica surface
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Undergrad Confused about fluorescence at resonance
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Graduate A derivation in Stoner's "The Demagnetizing Factors for Ellipsoids"
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein condensate diagram
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Undergrad Power Broadening: Explained & Resources
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High School Is there a Relativistic Quantum Chemistry Table?
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Undergrad Error on a transition frequency
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Graduate Calculating Spin Texture in Wien2K for TI Bi2Te3
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Graduate Deriving Ginzburg-Landau Theory from BCS: A Simplified Approach
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Graduate What Is the Significance of ε(∞) in Plasma Dielectrics?
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High School Mechanical Resonance and Natural Frequency at the Atomic/Lattice Level
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Undergrad Doubts regarding atomic spectra of mono-electron species
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Undergrad What is the Relationship Between Lattice Points and Basis Balls?
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Graduate B.D. Cullity § C.D. Graham-Introduction Magnetic Materials Solutions
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Graduate Effective Spring Constant of a Chain Polymer
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Undergrad Is it true that isotropic biaxial strain does not lower C2 symmetry?
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High School Why don't the air atoms in the microwave warm up?
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Undergrad CM frame kinetic energy for a molecule
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Graduate Why is the spin orientation crucial in the Kondo effect?
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Undergrad Fermi-Liquid - amount of electrons available for the interaction
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Undergrad Vibrational energy in molecules
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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 is the purpose of the depletion region in P-N junction semiconductors?
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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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Graduate 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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Undergrad 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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Graduate 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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