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Graduate Collapse of wave function and consciousness
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Insights A Beginner Physics Guide to Baryon Particles
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Insights The 7 Basic Rules of Quantum Mechanics
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Insights What is the Anatomy of Compton Scattering?
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High School Guidelines for Quantum Physics Forum
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Undergrad Single vs. Double slit coherence clarification please
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Graduate Is the 2-qubit singlet state invariant under bilateral projections?
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Undergrad Which-Path from Global Momentum Measurement in Double Slit
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Undergrad The imaginary part of the wave function
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Graduate Two equivalent statements of time reversal symmetric Hamiltonian
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Insights Quantum Entanglement is a Kinematic Fact, not a Dynamical Effect
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Undergrad Hooke's law: Constructing a force operator for electron orbitals?
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Undergrad What forces a magnet's field to track the rotation of the magnet?
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Undergrad Klein-Gordon equation in the nonrelativistic limit
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Undergrad Antilinear Operators
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Undergrad Entanglement swapping in the context of Indivisible Stochastic Process
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Graduate Could there be a "Communication Theorem" instead of a "No-Communication Theorem" in quantum entanglement?
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Undergrad HUP in condensates?
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Graduate Problem while simulating spin polarized interacting SSH model
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High School Is it correct to state that all measurements count photons?
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High School Mass & energy increments a la e = mc^2
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Undergrad Angular Momentum Vector and Its Magnitude
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Undergrad Antiproton and positron annihilation
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Undergrad Question about photon entanglement and causality
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Undergrad Need Help on Particle Spin
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Undergrad Can (ordo) Fermions convert to Bosons?
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Undergrad Elementary question about comparing notations of inner product
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Undergrad The Power of QM and QFT
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Undergrad Entanglement might be the result of an underlying law?
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Undergrad Importance of Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment
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Undergrad Prof Mike Wiest's proposed link between quantum and consciousness
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Graduate Is It Known For Sure Infinites In QFT Are Caused Using a Continuum?
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Graduate Lesser Green's function
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Undergrad What does the product part of Laughlin wave function mean?
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Undergrad Does a qubit break interference in the double slit experiment?
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Undergrad Schrödinger equation and classical wave equation
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High School New idea about wave-particle duality - looking for feedback/criticism
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Undergrad Is Maxwell's electromagnetism an effective (field) theory?
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Undergrad Why can’t photons “pile up” to eject an electron?
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Undergrad The Extended Wigner's Friend Scenarios
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Graduate I have some naive questions about the Reeh-Schlieder theorem
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Undergrad Do ensemble-based predictions truly describe real finite systems?
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Undergrad How strong is the justification for low probability extreme thermal fluctuations?
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High School Is a table levitating possible, even at a minuscule probability?
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Undergrad Energy*time uncertainty for particle decay
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Undergrad Commutation of operators for particle in a box
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High School A Time Crystal Visible to the Human Eye
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Undergrad Quantum Entanglement and Synchronization
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Undergrad Electron energy in atoms
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Graduate What is the connection between entanglement and the no-cloning theorem?
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High School Two/three photon absorption chemical substance producing photons for electricity generation
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High School Quantum entanglement
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Undergrad Quantum behaviour of an electron around a positively charged sphere
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Undergrad Visual depiction of atomic orbitals
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High School Can gravitons be detected?
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Undergrad Bloch Sphere generalization for more than one qubit
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Undergrad Probabalistic determination Photon Entaglement
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Undergrad Commutator of x and p in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Physical properties of the vacuum in GR vs. QFT
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Graduate Confusion about creation/annihilation operators with interaction
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High School Schrödinger's cat question
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Undergrad How can quantum physics contribute to medical physics?
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Graduate Eigenstates of the Klein Gordon Field Operator
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Undergrad Direction of time-evolution in time reversed wave functions
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Graduate Angular momentum uncertainty principle and the particle on a ring
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Graduate Effects of perception
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Undergrad Emission probability in blackbody spectrum derivation
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Undergrad Feynman's derivation of average square distance variation in Brownian motion
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Undergrad Phase and group velocity for the wave function
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Undergrad Validity of identical eigenfunction of commutating operators
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Undergrad Action of an Hermitian unitary operator member of SU(2)
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Undergrad About concept of wave-particle duality
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Undergrad Hydrogen 21 cm line time?
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Undergrad I would like some assistance working with commutators
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Undergrad Shape of wave function (probability distribution) of a single photon
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Undergrad Would gravitons theoretically act like photons?
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Graduate Baryon CP Violation Observed at CERN
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Graduate Geometry Topology and Physics: Nakahara, Chapt. 1: Weyl Ordering
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High School Energy-time uncertainty relation for a volume and macroscopic objects?
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Graduate What happens when an operator maps a vector out of the Hilbert space?
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High School The wave function of the electron doesn't collapse when passing through air?
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Undergrad New book on algebraic quantum physics
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Undergrad A question about density matricies
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Undergrad Density matrix representation of a density operator
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Undergrad How to understand quantum computers?
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein statistics and the Photon
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Graduate Explicit construction of Galilean-invariant space
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Undergrad Addition of angular momenta
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Undergrad Quantum decoherence vs. measurement process
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Undergrad Quantum eraser experiment
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Graduate Can scattering experiment be used to determine location and momentum of an electron?
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Insights Quantum Computing for Beginners
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Undergrad Bob and Alice with a Bell pair
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High School Gravitons vs photons: Does the size of the atom make any difference?
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Undergrad What's the deal with instantons?
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Undergrad How to derive orbital angular momentum of spins in quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad Deriving Bogoliubov transformations correctly
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Undergrad Dirac's 1972 Boston talk on Projective geometry in quantum mechanics
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High School Feynman QED Questions
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Graduate Scattering cross section between charged particle and magnetic moment
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Undergrad More information on the momentum eigenstate in the position basis
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Undergrad Measurement problem - will this work?
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Undergrad Quantum wavelength in gravitation
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Graduate Pauli–Villars ghost fields?
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Graduate Magnetic field produced by moving charge in operator form
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