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Graduate What Physical Evidence Supports the Role of Cooper Pairs in Superconductivity?
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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 Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter
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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 What is the Gruneisen Parameter in Ashcroft & Mermin Chapter 25?
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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 Charge carrier density: Hall experiment vs Fermi-Dirac statistics
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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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High School Why do metastable states in atoms exist?
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High School Bose-Einstein Condensate Photons
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Graduate What is the bulk plasmon peak?
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Graduate Is the Earth's core a potential high-temperature superconductor?
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Graduate What is the best free software for analyzing powder XRD data?
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Undergrad Is There a Curve For a Material's Surface Area vs. UTS
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High School What Does Not Allowed in Quantum Theory Mean Regarding Band Gaps?
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High School What causes solidity of objects?
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Undergrad Question about spectrometer data
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Graduate Nonlinear static polarization and impurity spectrum
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Undergrad Understanding L&L's argument, constant current in a crystal
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Undergrad Database for magnetism and properties
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