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Graduate What is the difference between local density of states and density of state?

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Graduate A question in Feynman's lectures

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Graduate Are phonons analogous to photons as quantized vibrations?

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Graduate Confusion on electrical current vs charge flow

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High School What is Bose Eintein Condensate?

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Graduate How Does the Pauli Exclusion Principle Influence Electron Pairing in Orbitals?

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Graduate Would one star's light prevent Bose-Einstein condensation on a planet?

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Graduate Answer the Question: Is Completely Empty Room Possible?

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Undergrad A question that bugged me the minute i heard the word atom

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Graduate Super fluids and pauli exclusion principle

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Undergrad Rendering hundreds of atoms from FCC simulations in Rasmol

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Graduate Hydrogen 1S-2S transition frequency

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Graduate Do Bose-Einstein condensates obey the laws of relativity?

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Undergrad Rydberg Function: What is its Significance?

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Graduate How do you distinguish insulators and superconductors by density of states?

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Graduate Group theory and crystal structure

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Graduate Help Understanding Energy Band Diagram

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Graduate Rotational-Vibrational Spectroscopy: P,Q,R Branches

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Graduate Hall effect - semiclassical approach

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High School How does the properties of glass affect its properties?

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Graduate What are bound polarons and how do they form?

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Undergrad Why Does Electronegativity Decrease Down the Periodic Table?

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Graduate Books: Advanced Statistical Physics Books for Understanding Concepts

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Graduate What is the current state of predicting properties of metallic alloys?

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Graduate Molecular orbital calculations

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Graduate Are conductive and valence bands defined in unbonded atoms?

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Graduate Conductivity of Pure Neon: Gas vs Solid State - Bohr's Atom Model

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Graduate Why is there negative group velocity in the optical mode?

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Undergrad Raman spectroscopy is Single molecule identification

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High School Why Si is Not Suitable for Creating Light

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Graduate Understanding Electron Binding Energy for Multi-Electron Atoms

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Undergrad How are metallic bonds formed?

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Graduate Magnetic field inside a vortex.

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Graduate Interacting Plasmas: The Possibility of Field Emission and Entanglement

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High School SiO2: What is it and Where is it Used?

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High School Which Bond is Stronger: Metallic or Covalent?

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Graduate How can rotational and vibrational energies be excited simultaneously?

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High School Does an electron have mass or is it massless?

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Graduate 20 Years of High Temp Superconductors

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Undergrad Why are covalent bonds directional if s-orbitals are spherical?

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Orbital properties and electron energies?

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Graduate Cutting Your Finger: What Happens at the Atomic Level?

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Graduate Electrons cannot follow the applied A.C field

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Graduate Hi do u know anything about fermi zones?

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Undergrad Why is the Emission Spectrum the same every time?

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Graduate Can Organic MOSFETs Detect Neurotransmitters?

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High School How does light travel through air molecules?

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Undergrad Why is covalent bond a directional bond ?

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Graduate QM as defects in a solid media.

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High School Light reflection percentage across wavelengths from radio to X-ray

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Graduate What is the Relation Between Wave Vectors in Bloch's Theorem?

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Graduate Lennard-Jones model and Energy Conservation

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Graduate Atomic spectra evidence for relativistic potential

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Graduate Electron Sinusoidal Frequency.

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Graduate Spin Orbit Interaction Hamiltonian

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Atom simulator with real physics for kids

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Graduate Theory Perspective: SCES '05 Vienna

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Graduate Physical meaning of dispersion relations in crystals

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Graduate Valley Degeneracy of Semiconductor Band Systems

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Graduate Superconductivity or insulation at 0 K ?

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Graduate Meeting with a Nobel Prize laureate

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Graduate Trying to fabricate a 1-2-3 YBCO superconductor

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Undergrad How Do Quartz Crystals Vibrate When Electrified in Watches?

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Graduate What is altra soft pseudopotential?

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Graduate Are conductive electron movements infraband non-radiative transitions?

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Undergrad Do atomic sublevels determine absorption spectrum?

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Graduate How do holes move in a band under an electric field?

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Graduate Can neutrons be confined and manipulated?

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Graduate How does the Orbital Electron Rotate Permanently without Energy Supply?

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Graduate Spectrum Transitions: Spikes or Lines?

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Graduate How Is Non s-Wave Superconductivity Gap Parameter Chosen?

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Graduate Reconciling the Use of Periodic Boundary Conditions in Solid State Physics

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Graduate Shot wave length corresponds to high curvature of the wave function

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Undergrad Why can't you liquefy a gas above its critical temperature?

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Undergrad Can Heat Cause Wrought Iron to Emit Audible Sounds?

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High School Forgotten Matter: Seeking the Name of a Stronger-than-Steel Substance

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Graduate Mangetostriction in antiferromagnetic materials

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Undergrad Why don't free electrons fly off metal boundaries?

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Graduate How Does Lightning Affect Lattice Behavior in Macroscopic Theory?

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Graduate Why Can't Vibrational Spectroscopy be Pure?

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High School Can reflectivity of a material be calculated without measurement?

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Undergrad Is there relationship between resistivity and bandgap?

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Undergrad Semiconductor P-N Junctions: Transistors or Diodes?

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Graduate Fields in ferromagnetism and proper range of atom size

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Graduate What is momentum transfer cross section ?

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Graduate What determines potential shape and what is K in band theory?

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Graduate Massless electrons behave relativistically

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Undergrad How Did Boyle and Avogadro Support the Disputed Ideal Gas Theory?

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Graduate Can surface tension affect the properties of silicon?

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Using SageMD for molecular dynamics

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Graduate Electric polarization involves the defect centers in the dielectric

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Undergrad Do electrons really have zero mass?

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Undergrad Why Does Neon Exhibit More Spectral Lines Than Helium?

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Graduate What is the required energy for positron emission?

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Undergrad What forces a denser liquid to sink below a less dense liquid?

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Graduate Do Electrons Behave Differently in Extremely Cold Temperatures?

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Graduate Theoretical Remarks on Superconductivity

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Graduate Solving Strongly Correlated Systems: An Introduction to the Slave Boson Method

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