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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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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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Insights Revisiting The Deuterium Lyman Alpha Line Experiment

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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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Insights Signature of the Sun: Analyzing the Solar Balmer Series Lines

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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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