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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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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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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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Undergrad Where did the extra 8 come from in the derivation for density of states?
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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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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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Arguments for the powers used in the Lennard Jones Potential
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How to calculate the basis function energy from DFT programs?
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Lightscribe graphene super capacitor reproduction
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Nomenclature of high symmetry points in the bandstructure
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What Are Acoustic Phonon Modes in Calculating Heat Capacity of a Solid?
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Solving a Mystery: Understanding Scintillation Light
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Quantum confinement effect on ionic properties
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Bohr's model applied to Wannier exciton in indirect gap semiconductors
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Problem in convergence in Quantum espresso
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Density of states arbitrary units
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Difference between ionization energy and work function
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Energy spacing in the description of energy bands.
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Exploring the Qualitative Reason Behind VDW's \rho^2 Dependence
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Graduate What Physical Evidence Supports the Role of Cooper Pairs in Superconductivity?
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Macro vs Nanoscale Pyroelectric Polymers
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Why Does Band Gap Energy Increase Higher Up the Periodic Table?
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Undergrad Demolecularization using antimatter
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Calculating Elementary Charge Using Millikan's Experiment Results
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Molecular emission spectra database
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Some Fundamental Interactions Of Matter Found To Be Fundamentally Different
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Undergrad Which solid configuration has the highest density of states for electrons?
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Graduate What is the functional representation of D(E) for a given energy interval?
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Normal Mode Analysis+IR/Raman
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Random Phase Approximation (Why they call it so?)
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Electron density Saha Ionization Equation
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Carbon-Carbon Bond Energies: Primary vs. Tertiary Carbon
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Undergrad Terminology - the upper state
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Let's Discuss the Ways of Making Graphene
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Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) Safeguards Info Needed
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The Potential of Molecular Assembler Bots: Fact or Fiction?
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Why do some elements in column 14 have different shapes than carbon?
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Why is j2 = 1/2 and not -1/2 in the coupled angular momenta equation?
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Conductivity of a copper wire at 4K
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Graphene Membraned Blocks Helium and Other Gasses, Allows Water Through
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Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter
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Feshbach resonance for Li: repulsive and attractive?
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Atomic clock - optical pumping
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The atom's stable configuration
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Lennard-Jones potential for 3 atoms
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Is zigzag graphene nanoribbon metallic or semiconducting?
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Simple models of nanoscale carbon structures
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Field effect transistor made of graphene: how does it work?
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Graphene visibility vs. SiO2 thickness
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When should the nuclear spin be included in atomic spectroscopic notation?
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Teleportation of single atoms
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Undergrad What explains the sharpness of XRD peaks?
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Graduate Non interacting Fermions satisfy the Pauli exclusion principle
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Graduate Studying Green's function in many body physics
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Undergrad How can I compute edge states in the Haldane model with varying dimensions?
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Graduate How do acceptor energy levels form in p-doped semiconductors?
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Undergrad Energy needed for an Ionic Bond
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Selection rules beyond the central field approximation
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Undergrad Taylor Series for Potential in Crystals
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Graduate Graphene Spin Relaxation: Getting Started
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High School Factors contributing to the atomic mass of an atom
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