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Undergrad Limits to Superconductor Energy Storage?
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Undergrad Sommerfeld Expansion & Chemical Potential
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Undergrad How can I find the unitary matrix for diagonalizing a Hamiltonian numerically?
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Undergrad Why normal Zeeman effect contains three components?
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Undergrad Polymer Physics - Radius of Gyration
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Undergrad Why is spin-orbit coupling neglected in Helium atom?
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Undergrad Equation for modeling atomic spectra of all atoms
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Undergrad Predicting new crystal structures
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Undergrad What is the composition of the B1 phase in Cu-Zr alloy?
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Undergrad What Does 'Mass' Mean for Non-Existent Holes?
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Undergrad What are the rules that define a semiconductor?
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein Condensate Properties
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Undergrad Semiconductor is the combination of elements in the groups IV and VI?
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Undergrad Does carrier pulse width vary with diffusion coefficient?
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Undergrad Pure semiconductor Quantum Dots?
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Undergrad Emitting light to a Quantum dot
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Undergrad Number of moles of argon plasma to exert X pressure
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Undergrad Temperature impact on laser emission
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Undergrad Minority charge carriers - what are these?
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Undergrad Which are semiconductors in the periodic table?
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Undergrad Circular electron propagation in carbon nanotubes?
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Undergrad Reciprocal lattice in connection with band theory
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Undergrad Goldstone bosons in description of superfluidity
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Undergrad Understanding autocorrelations in 2D Ising model
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Undergrad Modulus in Metals versus Sound Vibration
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Undergrad Why perfect graphene has nonmagnetic state?
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Undergrad How does the London dispersion force really work?
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Undergrad Peak profile fitting in X-ray Crystallography, why Voigt?
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Undergrad Understanding Plasma Physics: Exploring Debye Length and Collision Frequency
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Undergrad Exciton Bohr Radius: What is It & Why Does it Matter?
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Undergrad Why does the heat capacity of solids drop exponentially at low temperatures?
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Undergrad Where is the Fermi Level located?
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Undergrad Recent (?) noteworthy (?) physics paper
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Undergrad Depletion region and Schottky Barriers
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Undergrad Average energy of the electrons at T = 0
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein distribution for photons
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Undergrad Difference between absorption and scattering cross sections
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Undergrad Polariton, magnon, or something similar
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Undergrad Scaling and the renormalization (sub)group
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Undergrad Could XY crystal be a special case of X2YZ crystal?
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Undergrad Heavy metals and semiconductors
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Undergrad Attractive Kronig-Penney Potential Dispersion Relation Confirmation
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Undergrad Atomic Spectrometry: Sharp Atomic Spectrum & Noise Reduction
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Undergrad Superconductor momentum conservation
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Undergrad Spectroscopy of Rb - crossover peaks more intense?
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Undergrad Are Quantum Dots Spherical? Identifying Size of Colloidal Solution
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Undergrad Electron Spin vs Domain Creation in Permanent Magnets
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Undergrad Crystal Structure Database (Pb0.5Sn0.5)Te
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Undergrad Graphene Substrate: Can it Maintain 2D Form?
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Undergrad Nitrogen-Vacancy centres in Diamond for NMR spectroscopy
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Undergrad Fe Lattice: Band Structure & Fermi Surface Location
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Undergrad Discovering the Science: Understanding Cool Gases and their Temperature
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Undergrad Visible light reflection v.s X-Ray reflection
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Undergrad Hydrogen electron transition intensity 2p - 1s
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Undergrad Is it Possible to Index a Cubic Lattice with h^2+k^2+l^2=7?
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Undergrad Why does LED band gap decrease as temperature increases?
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Undergrad How Do Quantum Dots Emit UV Light?
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Undergrad Laser Gain Location - Where is it?
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Undergrad Why CdS/CdSe are more widely used as quantum dots?
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Undergrad How to understand diffusive and ballistic transport?
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Undergrad Why triatomic gases have internal energy 7RT/2 ?
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Undergrad Can a circularly Polarized Laser impart momentum to air?
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Undergrad How can you derive the effective mass?
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Undergrad What is the maximum size of a Quantum Dot?
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Undergrad Phase transitions university classes
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Undergrad Are the positive charges from a hole and a proton ?
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Undergrad Photosensitive properties of Molybdenum Disulphide
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Undergrad Is it possible to calculate Tsupercon from the unit cell?
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Undergrad What is the Derivation Process of Kramer's Law?
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Undergrad Can Someone Explain the Derivation of This Pink Equation?
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Undergrad What k states are occupied in a band
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Undergrad The Shrödinger Equation & Hydrogen Molecule Bonding
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Undergrad How Does Spin-Orbit Interaction Influence Effective Mass in Semiconductors?
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Undergrad Fermi distribution interpretation
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Undergrad Schroedinger equation for metal / semiconductor
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Undergrad Location of donor atom electrons in N-type Silicon
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Undergrad Help Understanding Electron Spin Resonance
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Undergrad Phonon energy in absorption of indirect band gap
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Undergrad About creating standing wave with laser
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Undergrad How Is the Energy of the Conduction Band Determined in N-Doped Germanium?
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Undergrad How does a Point Force Affect a Piezoelectric?
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Undergrad Quarks in a Mole: Hydrogen, Plutonium & the Periodic Chart
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Undergrad Inverse of Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution and Planck's Law?
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Undergrad Can Carbon in the Air Be Transformed into Graphene?
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Undergrad Energy spectrum of a chain of quantum oscillators
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Undergrad Why does (100) and (010) have the shortest reciprocal lattic
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Undergrad Solid State NMR and X-ray Crystallography resources
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Undergrad Is a One-Time Use Pulse Laser Possible?
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Undergrad Who can identify a Bravais Lattice?
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Undergrad Cooper-Pair Density Near A Conductor's surface
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Undergrad Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Alpha and Beta
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Undergrad Thermal expansion in harmonic potential
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Undergrad Electrons in ZrTe5 Gain Mass Under High Magnetic Field, Study Finds
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Undergrad PN Junction Diode: Diffusion vs. Drift Current
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Undergrad Understanding Hund's Second Rule: What is a Singlet or Triplet?
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Undergrad Helium Ion collision with diamond wafer
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Undergrad K dot p method with SO interaction
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Undergrad Fracture and material strength
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Undergrad Why is tetrahedral the most stable?
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Undergrad Why do black bodies get hotter than white bodies in the sun?
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