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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 How does scintillation light reveal the Compton edge of a gamma ray?

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Graduate Quantum confinement effect on ionic properties

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Graduate Bohr's model applied to Wannier exciton in indirect gap semiconductors

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Graduate Problem in convergence in Quantum espresso

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Graduate Density of states arbitrary units

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Graduate Difference between ionization energy and work function

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Graduate Energy spacing in the description of energy bands.

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Graduate Why van der Waals pressure depends on density squared

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Graduate What Physical Evidence Supports the Role of Cooper Pairs in Superconductivity?

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Graduate Macro vs Nanoscale Pyroelectric Polymers

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Undergrad Why Does Band Gap Energy Increase Higher Up the Periodic Table?

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Undergrad Demolecularization using antimatter

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High School Calculating Elementary Charge Using Millikan's Experiment Results

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Undergrad Molecular emission spectra database

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Graduate 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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Graduate Normal Mode Analysis+IR/Raman

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Graduate Random Phase Approximation (Why they call it so?)

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Graduate Electron density Saha Ionization Equation

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Undergrad Carbon-Carbon Bond Energies: Primary vs. Tertiary Carbon

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Undergrad Terminology - the upper state

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Graduate Let's Discuss the Ways of Making Graphene

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Graduate Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) Safeguards Info Needed

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Graduate The Potential of Molecular Assembler Bots: Fact or Fiction?

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Undergrad Why do some elements in column 14 have different shapes than carbon?

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Graduate Why is j2 = 1/2 and not -1/2 in the coupled angular momenta equation?

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Graduate Conductivity of a copper wire at 4K

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Graduate Graphene Membraned Blocks Helium and Other Gasses, Allows Water Through

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Graduate Feshbach resonance for Li: repulsive and attractive?

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Graduate Atomic clock - optical pumping

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Undergrad The atom's stable configuration

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Graduate Lennard-Jones potential for 3 atoms

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Graduate Is zigzag graphene nanoribbon metallic or semiconducting?

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Graduate Simple models of nanoscale carbon structures

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Graduate Field effect transistor made of graphene: how does it work?

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Graduate Graphene visibility vs. SiO2 thickness

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Graduate When should the nuclear spin be included in atomic spectroscopic notation?

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Graduate 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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Graduate 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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Graduate Energy transition in LS-coupling

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Graduate Stable orbitals/absorption spectrum

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Undergrad Linear combinations of atomic orbitals

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Graduate Can a degenerate gas of electrons be a superconductor?

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Graduate Raman spectroscopy and the phonon confined in the Brillouin zone

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High School Why is it possible to push your finger through butter?

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Graduate Create Hamiltonians in condensed matter with group theory

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Graduate Powder XRD sample prep question

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Graduate Quantum Espresso Tutorial: h-Boron Phosphide Variable-Cell Relaxation

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Undergrad How do irrational numbers give incommensurate potential periods?

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Graduate Selection rules using Group Theory: many body

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Graduate Imaginary part of the dielectric function

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Graduate Magnetic response of a degenerate Fermi gas

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Graduate Doubling I, what happens to v_d and n?

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Graduate Fermi gas in a magnetic Field?

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Graduate Inquiry regarding Ashcroft and Mermin's page 365

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Undergrad Quantized vortices in superfluid

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Undergrad Why is Isopropanol used after Acetone in cleaning procedures?

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Undergrad What does the wavenumber in a group velocity represent?

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Graduate A passage on pages 346-347 in AShcroft and Mermin

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Graduate Removing frozen field from SQUID magnetometer MvsH data

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Undergrad Nuclear spin coupling in molecular (protium) hydrogen

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Undergrad Deriving the Gruneisen parameter from the dynamical matrix

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Undergrad What are spinons and orbitons in the context of electron behavior in materials?

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Undergrad Understanding Band Structure Diagrams

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Undergrad How do electrons in materials interact?

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Undergrad Why are atomic clocks so accurate?

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Undergrad Impact of superconductivity on mechanical properties?

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High School We Need a Wall - Electrons are Crossing Our Borders

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Undergrad What Are the Differences Between Boltzmann and Gibbs Entropies?

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High School Are Atoms Glued? Learn What Happens

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Graduate Can multiple layers of thin films increase infrared light absorption?

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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Permitivity and Wave Vector in Graphene?

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Undergrad Stress problem between superconductor and wire

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Undergrad Any stable amorphous substances?

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Undergrad Is NaCl Ferroelectric Due to Its Lattice Polarization?

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Undergrad Photodiode bandwidth: why does power decrease with frequency

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Undergrad Time period of precession of Sx about B

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Undergrad Atomic Force Microscopy in hard and soft matter physics

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Graduate The probability function of electrons occupying the donor state

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Undergrad Fuchs-Sondheimer Resistivity model for Nanowires

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Undergrad Some questions about electrons and the Fermi energy

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Undergrad How can ΔJ = 0 for an electric dipole transition?

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Undergrad What does charge carrier density mean in Drude's model?

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High School Graphene Stacked at 1.1 degrees Superconducts

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Graduate Quantum Dot Solids: Electron Minibands & Potential

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