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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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Undergrad Why is this unit used in graphs; keV/amu ?
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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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High School Are Protons Atoms? Is It True?
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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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Graduate 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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Graduate Fermi Temperature and Black-body radiation
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Graduate Magnetic neutron scattering in hole doped cuprate superconductors
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Graduate How Does BCS-BEC Crossover Impact Superconductors and Ultracold Gases?
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Graduate 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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Graduate Hall resistance coefficient vs Seebeck coefficient signs for n-p type
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Insights Understanding Bohr’s Helium Lines
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High School Has anyone ever built a superconducting quenchgun?
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Graduate Shouldn't the shape of a semiconductor laser be planar instead of conical?
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Undergrad Is it possible for water to exhibit fluorescence?
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Graduate What is the mean inner potential in an ideal crystal of finite size?
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Graduate Fano Resonance Theory: Notes & Books
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Undergrad Inverting the Birch-Murnaghan Equation of State
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High School Ultra high pressure supersolid helium
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Undergrad Can Glory Phenomena Be Observed in X-Rays?
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Graduate Raman and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
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Undergrad Measuring the Helium Spectrum: Friederich Paschen 1916
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Undergrad Microspectrometers (anybody have the version by Scio?)
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Undergrad How Do Photoelectric Cells Capture Color and Light Intensity?
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High School In theory, could any element become unstable?
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Graduate Negative Pressure in Solid Phase Diagram of Water
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Graduate Metallic Hydrogen as a knife blade
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Insights Calculating the Balmer Alpha Line: Atomic Hydrogen
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Graduate Aharonov - Bohm effect exercise
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Graduate Inequivalent K and K' points in graphene
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Graduate Can Semi-Metallic Materials Conduct Current with Holes?
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Graduate Can the electron-electron interaction have an impact on the conductivity?
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High School Oxygen Transformation: A Puzzling Phenomenon
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Undergrad Where did the extra 8 come from in the derivation for density of states?
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Undergrad What subfields does semiconductor physics comprise?
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Graduate How to interpret N(E) vs. E graphs when performing Auger spectroscopy
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Graduate How Do Allowed k Vectors Become Discrete in Crystals?
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Graduate Understanding Spectral Coherence w/ Radiation Sources
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Graduate Relativistic Effects for Copper and Gold
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Undergrad What are the general parameters for the in-medium light group speed?
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High School Atom's mass -- does it change with energy levels?
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Graduate The Standard Model's application to competing Covalent Bond theories?
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Graduate Are there phonons in a free electron gas?
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Undergrad Relevance of the Rydberg Constant?
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Graduate Fermi liquid theory vs Hohenberg-Kohn theorems + Kohn-Sham equations
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Graduate How does the 2-D Ising Model relate to complex fields in its continuum limit?
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Graduate Understanding & Solving Electron/Phonon Interaction Problems
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High School Elucidating atomic scale vs. macro scale
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High School How are the mercury atoms in a fluorescent lamp ionised?
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Graduate Mean field theory in the Heisenberg model
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Undergrad Standard crystallographic notation confusion
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Undergrad Morse Potenials Energy eigenvalues
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Graduate Question about crystal structure of long chain fatty acids (XRD)
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Undergrad What optical filter to use for Raman spectroscopy?
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Graduate Does electron energy contribute to current
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Undergrad Compute the optical gain of a quantum well
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Undergrad Best video lectures on SSP following Kittel
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Undergrad Concentration of Impurities in Extrinsic Semiconductor ?
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Graduate Is energy inversely proportional to mass?
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Graduate Photons through transparent materials, what's going on?
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High School Superconductor at 250K, 170GPa
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Graduate Arguments for the powers used in the Lennard Jones Potential
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Graduate How to calculate the basis function energy from DFT programs?
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Graduate Lightscribe graphene super capacitor reproduction
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Graduate Nomenclature of high symmetry points in the bandstructure
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Graduate What Are Acoustic Phonon Modes in Calculating Heat Capacity of a Solid?
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Graduate Solving a Mystery: Understanding Scintillation Light
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Graduate Quantum confinement effect on ionic properties
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