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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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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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Graduate 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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High School The physical properties of diamonds: no melting point?

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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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Graduate What Is the Atomic Equivalent of the Wood-Saxon Potential?

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High School Breaking Down the Mystery of Ice VII Nucleation

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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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Undergrad 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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Undergrad Debye model and reciprocal space

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Graduate Two questions on Feynman diagram and Green's function

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Undergrad Question about the Debye model of solids

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Undergrad How come electrons and phonons lead to the heat equation?

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Undergrad Why are more x-rays made from metal than glass

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Undergrad Questions on Debye's Model of solids

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Graduate What Does 1D Mean in the Term Symbol 2p2 1D for Helium?

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Undergrad Effective electron mass of tungsten

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Undergrad Energy Transfer Mechanism in Helium Neon Gas Laser

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High School I want to know about cold finger cryostat?

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Graduate Diffraction on periodic Structures

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Undergrad Understand Tight Binding Method: Coulomb Potential, 2D Case & More

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High School My Third Post: Change of Intermolecular Distance?

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High School Magnons: Alternative to Electrons for Circuit Design

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Undergrad Basic questions about superconductivity

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Undergrad The sign of coupling Hamiltonian in CQED

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Graduate Photovoltaic Effect in CdS or CdSe

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High School Can graphene be used as a template for graphene growth

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Undergrad Noble gases with even nuclear spin form superfluids?

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Undergrad Bloch Waves within Tight Binding Approximation

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Graduate The hermicity of a k.p matrix?

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Graduate The k direction in a k.p model ?

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Graduate Incorrect Hybrid Polariton Dispersion Results

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Graduate What's the meaning of "Incompressible" for FQHE?

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Graduate Help with determination of crystal orientation

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Graduate Viscosity from DFT (VASP) using the Green-Kubo relation

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Graduate Symmetries of a Diamond Unit Cell - Point Group Confusion

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Graduate Size of nuclei wave function in a crystal

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Graduate Mott insulators and electron-electron insulators

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Graduate Derivation of the Heisenberg equation for electron density

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Undergrad Difference between A and B irreps

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Undergrad I understanding the meaning of Bloch waves

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Undergrad Are solar cells operated under any kind of bias or not?

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Undergrad What does this notation mean? ex: 1s:A, 1s:E

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High School Is this real verified science?

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Undergrad Temperature limits on Debye's Calculationp

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Undergrad Allowed infrared absorption in simple London crystals

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Graduate Subtract Radiated from Background Spectrum to Analyze Absorption Spectrum

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Graduate Surface states of 3D topological insulators

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Graduate Measuring Viscosity via the Speed of Sound

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Undergrad Projection down 3 dimensions for aperiodic tiling/quasicrystal

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Graduate What resources are available for using DFT to study 1D materials in physics?

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Undergrad Radiative and Nonradiative Transitions

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