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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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High School The Nature of Reality: Understanding the Behavior of Subatomic Particles
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Graduate Charge density of carbon nanotubes and graphene
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Graduate Bloch theorem proof with V(x)=V(x+ma)
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Graduate Band diagram, conductivity tensor
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Graduate Why do we need to know "two-bands" Hall coefficient and magn
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Undergrad List of hyperfine structure of the elements?
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Graduate Is Block Spin Still ±1 in Ising Model?
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Undergrad What are the applications of YBCO bulks?
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Undergrad How much does it cost to synthesize YBCO?
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