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Energy transition in LS-coupling
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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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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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What is the Relationship Between Permitivity and Wave Vector in Graphene?
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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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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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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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Undergrad Empty Lattice approximation/Nearly-free electron model
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Graduate Observables in condensed matter (QFT)
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Undergrad Understanding the Seebeck effect
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Universal Quantum Phenomena found in Strange Metals
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Undergrad Center of inversion of cubic diamond structure?
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Undergrad What are the patterns and formations seen in selected area diffraction?
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Undergrad Chemical Bonding - Wave function
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Graduate Understanding the Edelstein Effect: Get the Answers You Need
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Graduate Phase transition under pressure?
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Undergrad What causes magnetism at the atomic level?
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Graduate Partition function for a driven oscillator?
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Undergrad In what cases (precisely) are Hund's rules valid?
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Undergrad Chemical potential on a solid and its vapor pressure
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High School Comparing sizes of atoms of an apple the size of the Earth
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Graduate Using atoms for information storage
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High School What is the work function of graphene sheets?
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What Is the Atomic Equivalent of the Wood-Saxon Potential?
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Undergrad Why is the 'work function' called a function?
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Graduate How is the inversion Channel formed in SOI Mosfet?
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Undergrad Why Are Experimentally Measured Isotope Masses Often Not Listed?
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Graduate Quantum Confinement Effect and Density of States
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Undergrad Stopping power for a proton ion gun through a Boron-11 sheet 1mm thick
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Graduate Fraunhofer's multiple slits versus atomic scatteres (diffraction theory)
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Undergrad What is the Role of Superconductors in Lossless Wiring and Power Transmission?
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Graduate Metal or Insulator: Examining Resistance in Multiple Directions
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Graduate Nonlinear susceptibility and group reps
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Graduate Relative magnetization and a Face Centered Cubic lattice
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Graduate Electron spin resonance in metals
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Undergrad Charged insulator with electrons throughout its volume?
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Graduate Does the Material Cu2OSeO3 Have a Solid-Liquid Critical Point?
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Graduate How to evaluate path integrals numerically?
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Undergrad Phonons and Crystal Momentum: Conservation and Quantization
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Graduate Why does Efm shift in MOSFETs?
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Graduate Silicon band structure for both ibrav 0 and ibrav 2
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Graduate Physics of Topological Insulators and Superconductors
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Graduate Is there a topological insulator without Spin Orbit Coupling (SOC)?
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Graduate Band Gap Vs Pressure: Proskite Compounds
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Can I observe the atomic orbit with a universe sandbox2?
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Undergrad Fermi Energy Calculations About Non Parabolic Dispersions
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Undergrad How did Fermi calculate the strength of first nuclear explosion?
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High School Experimental Virial Equation for real gases
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Graduate Why is the 4p to 3s Transition Not Allowed in the Grotrian Diagram for Hydrogen?
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Graduate Central Equation Derivation: NxN Matrix?
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Graduate Energy gap between energy bands in solid state physics
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Graduate Scherrer's Equation: Theta Units Explained
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