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If the transfer integral of these particles is small, the repulsion between them can lead to the Mott transition. If these particles are “nearly free” but weakly interact with a periodic potential, Bloch’s theorem can be used to compute their band structure. Superconductivity is caused by bound pairs of these particles theorized by Leon Cooper. Places in a lattice where these particles don’t exist are called holes. If a photon’s energy exceeds a material’s work function, it can eject one of these particles in an effect whose description won Albert Einstein the Nobel Prize. For 10 points, name these negatively-charged particles whose orbitals surround the nuclei of atoms. ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 58.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 47.71 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.75 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.11 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 62.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.11 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.58 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 64.78 |
| North | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.50 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 68.00 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 65.88 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 72.17 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 67.17 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 53.25 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 71.86 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 56.60 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue B | WashU Grolars | 18 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | Michigan C | 24 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Coho | 30 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford B | Berkeley Skeleton King | 31 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | William & Mary B | 33 | 10 |
| Henry Ding | Princeton | George Mason C | 33 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | Boston University B | Tufts A | 33 | 10 |
| Michael Shipman | Cambridge D | Imperial C | 36 | 10 |
| Taman Truong | USC B | UC Santa Barbara | 41 | 10 |
| Nate Brown | CWRU C | Michigan A | 41 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto E | Toronto F | 42 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh B | Maryland B | 42 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa A | Central Oklahoma B | 42 | -5 |
| Nathan Whittington | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech F | 42 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UC Irvine | UCLA B | 43 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Michigan B | 44 | -5 |
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | UCLA E | 45 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Clemson C | 45 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McMaster B | 46 | 10 |
| Saju Ramraj | Toronto I | Waterloo A | 47 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago B | Illinois Orange | 47 | 10 |
| Daniel Lu | Washington Pink | Alberta B | 47 | 10 |
| Andreas Ktori | Durham A | Sheffield A | 47 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Iowa A | 48 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville C | Pittsburgh | 49 | 10 |
| Jeremy Scurlock | Chipola College | Georgia Tech C | 49 | 10 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley Archer Queen | Berkeley Boss Bandit | 50 | 10 |
| Rohan Soni | UCLA F | Claremont C | 50 | 10 |
| Ishan Pachauri | UCLA C | UCSD A | 50 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU Daytona A | South Florida A | 50 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State A | CWRU D | 50 | 10 |
| Nishad Joshi | Kentucky | WVU A | 50 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech C | UNC D | 50 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn | Rutgers B | 50 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois Blue | Rose-Hulman A | 50 | 10 |
| Alan Cai | Amherst A | Vermont A | 50 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Brandeis Beethoven | 50 | 10 |
| Vishnu Sharma | Texas | Washington Atlantic | 50 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hackett | Central Oklahoma A | Nebraska C | 50 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge A | Imperial B | 50 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Southampton | 50 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Binghamton C | 50 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD B | USC A | 51 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason B | Rutgers C | 51 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Virginia Tech B | 52 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams A | Boston College A | 52 | 10 |
| Stephen Donoghue | Sheffield B | Edinburgh D | 52 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | Boise State | 53 | 10 |
| Graham Dirks | Kansas State A | Murray State College A | 53 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont B | UCLA D | 54 | 10 |
| Lucas Hall | Waterloo C | Toronto C | 54 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins | Rowan | 54 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin C | 54 | 10 |
| Daniel Chen | Emory A | Auburn B | 54 | 10 |
| Rob Morris | Durham D | Edinburgh A | 54 | 10 |
| Nitinkisor Rajesh Kumar | Edinburgh B | Durham C | 54 | 10 |
| Jack Glenn | ESF | Rochester | 54 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell D | Cornell B | 54 | 10 |
| Joanna Xiao | Georgia Tech B | Georgia A | 55 | 10 |
| Ahmed Azhari | Cambridge E | Birmingham | 55 | -5 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Maryland C | 58 | 10 |
| Anna Pearson | Tulsa B | Nebraska A | 60 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland A | Stony Brook | 61 | 10 |
| Alex Matchinski | Michigan Tech | Minnesota | 63 | 10 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Tennessee Tech | 64 | -5 |
| Jason Thieu | Michigan State A | WVU B | 65 | 10 |
| Surya Donath | Stanford A | Berkeley Mighty Miner | 66 | 10 |
| David Yuan | Berkeley Little Prince | UCSC | 66 | 10 |
| Drake Smith | Carleton A | McGill C | 66 | 10 |
| Chen Nagahawatte | Ottawa B | Ottawa C | 66 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill A | Carleton B | 66 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto A | Toronto D | 66 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto B | Toronto G | 66 | 10 |
| Nina Chen | Waterloo B | Toronto H | 66 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Florida Tech A | Florida A | 66 | 10 |
| Daniel Luebs | Michigan State B | Michigan State D | 66 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | Tusculum A | 66 | 10 |
| Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech A | William & Mary C | 66 | 10 |
| Cooper Morris | Columbia B | George Mason A | 66 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | NYU B | 66 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | Vassar B | 66 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana A | William Woods University A | 66 | 10 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester | Wisconsin B | 66 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth B | Tufts C | 66 | 10 |
| Rafael Gómez | Amherst B | Brown B | 66 | 10 |
| Kushagra Bahuguna | Washington Chinook | British Columbia A | 66 | 10 |
| Caleb Rowe | Nebraska B | Murray State College B | 66 | 10 |
| Matthew Bray | Auburn C | Auburn A | 66 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Montevallo | 66 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech D | 66 | 10 |
| Aaron Wang | Cornell A | RIT A | 66 | 10 |
| Isaiah Schmid | Binghamton B | RIT B | 66 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Brock A | 67 | 10 |
| Joshua Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan State C | 67 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 67 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue C | Indiana B | 69 | 10 |
| Jesse Mindel | NCSU A | Liberty B | 70 | 10 |
| David Ropp | Duke A | JMU B | 73 | 10 |
| Suyog Vibhuti | Washington Steelhead | Arizona State B | 73 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown A | Brandeis Bach | 75 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick | Cardiff | 75 | 10 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Edinburgh C | 76 | 10 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech E | 77 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Guelph A | 78 | 10 |
| Akif Ismail | Williams C | Boston University A | 78 | 10 |
| Evan Roberts | Vanderbilt C | Alabama A | 78 | 10 |
| Jack Rabaut | Michigan D | Louisville D | 81 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | CWRU A | Ohio State D | 81 | 10 |
| Kaushik Jayaprabha | Dartmouth C | Boston College B | 81 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | NYU C | 82 | 10 |
| Brian Qian | Illinois Canada | Iowa B | 82 | 10 |
| Reid Eichberg | Tufts B | Harvard | 82 | 10 |
| Kyle Hart | MIT B | Williams B | 82 | 10 |
| Corey Pope | Florida State A | UCF A | 85 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | UNC B | Liberty A | 85 | 10 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE | Bristol | 85 | 10 |
| Lauren Edgar | Lehigh A | Columbia A | 86 | 10 |
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | McGill E | 93 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Florida Tech B | 93 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Grizzlers | Illinois Urbana | 93 | -5 |
| James Haddix | Washington State | Washington Sockeye | 93 | -5 |
| Veer Vanmali | Mississippi State A | Sewanne | 93 | -5 |
| William Henley | Illinois Champaign | Purdue D | 99 | 10 |
| Claire Stutzman | Kansas State B | Harding | 99 | 10 |
| Advaith Jagannath | Cambridge C | Oxford | 99 | 10 |
| Kevin Nolan | NCSU B | JMU A | 100 | 10 |
| Samuel Gao | British Columbia C | Washington Masu | 100 | 10 |
| Isabel Dent | Sewanne | Mississippi State A | 100 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Brandeis Mozart | 101 | 10 |
| Ba Loc Dinh | Illinois Urbana | WashU Grizzlers | 104 | 10 |
| CJ Sershon | Central Oklahoma B | Tulsa A | 105 | 10 |
| Anna Liao | Michigan B | Louisville B | 108 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington Sockeye | Washington State | 108 | 10 |
| Daniel Slater | Tennessee Tech | Vanderbilt B | 108 | 10 |
| James Mogg | Birmingham | Cambridge E | 108 | 10 |