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Graduate Fourier analysis and continuous spectra

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Graduate Can I delete a thread on Lef In Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Do massless fermions exist in modern physics?

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Graduate Understanding Wave Functions: Definition, Equations, and Applications

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Graduate How Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Derived?

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Graduate What is the uncertainty principle

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Graduate Time-ordered products and the Dyson series in quantum field theory

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Graduate What is a quantum harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Why neutrinos oscillate between flavors through mass superposition

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Graduate How Does the Feynman Propagator Define Particle Movement in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What Is the Expansion Postulate in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What is the Definition and Mathematical Explanation of Density of States?

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Graduate What is the significance of matrix elements of vectors in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What is Characteristic Length?

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Graduate What does observation mean in the double slit experiment?

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Graduate A Little Question On Identical Particles

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Graduate Separable Hilbert space's postulate

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Graduate What is the INNER QUANTUM number ?

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Graduate Observing Particle Annihilation: How Anti-Particles Affect Universe Formation

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Graduate Can single photons be made coherent through entanglement and manipulation?

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Graduate Perturbation Theory - First Order Approximation

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Graduate Why the de Broglie equation works for composite systems

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Graduate Why does the antiparticle always fall into the black hole in Hawking radiation?

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Graduate Given Electro-Weak force why state four forces.

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Graduate Entanglement, ftl communication and destruction of the entangled state

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Graduate DTQE idler photons fall into a Black Hole- interference at d0?

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Graduate Can a single photon create an interference pattern in a double slit experiment?

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Graduate NEW Proof that parity operator is hermitean

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Graduate How composite particles have definite spin?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Explains Refraction of Light Through Glass

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Graduate Wave particle duailty, boundry between classic and the quantum world

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Graduate Decoherence and Wave Function Collapse

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Graduate L=0, L=1ħ, 2ħ, 3ħ Suborbital Configuration

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Graduate Does Observation Affect Photon Behavior in the Double-Slit Experiment?

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Graduate How do atoms repel each other?

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Graduate Total angular momentum operators

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Graduate Hidden Variables and Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Silicon droplets and double slit, in 3D?

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Graduate Make an operator to be hermitian

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Graduate Normalization of wavefunctions

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Graduate Should you just "shut up and calculate"?

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Graduate How Do L=0 Coaxial Suborbital Paths Align with the Standard Model?

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Graduate Why is spin number half integer, especially +1/2,-1/2 for electrons?

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Graduate Attempted simulation of Hong-Ou-Mandel effect

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Graduate Can one photon interfere with another photon?

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Graduate Application of Schrodinger equation to SHO

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Graduate Photon Emission: Purcell's Textbook Presentation

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Graduate Can lattice deformation preserve DOS and simplify calculations?

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Graduate Metals and Conductivity question

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Graduate Young's Slits and "one-at-a-time" photons

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Graduate Polarization and Bell measurments

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Graduate How to Handle Integration Bounds in Quantum Pendulum Problems?

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Graduate Does the Renninger negative-result experiment contradict quantum decoherence?

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Graduate Is Choice of Spinor Representation a Gauge Symmetry?

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Graduate Measurement Possibilities: The Role of Efficiency and Distance in Bell's Theorem

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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty due to interaction of the inherent reality?

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Graduate Does wave function collapse reveal a pre-existing position or create one?

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Graduate Origin of the 1/r₁₂ term in the free particle amplitude equation

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Undergrad What are quarks and do they exist?

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Graduate Particle on a ring with perturbation

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Graduate Complex wavefunctions and electromagnetic waves

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Graduate Why isn't Manyworlds obviously correct?

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Graduate Those Pictures (Representations) in QM and the density equations

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Graduate Ignoring SSB in massless phi^4 theory

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Graduate Is QM necessary for single observable parameters?

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Graduate Does wavefunction collapse require particle interaction rather than observation?

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Graduate Would there be any use in a Rydberg equation for Helium

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Graduate Under what condition <AB>=<A><B> stands?

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Graduate Can a model exist that is local yet realistic in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Can an observer inside a closed box affect patterns seen outside it?

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Graduate Could probabilistic ranges in QM equations prevent gravity from being compatible?

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Graduate Oserving wave behaviour Is it 2d, 3d, or is there something more?

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Graduate "Violation of Bell's inequality in fluid mechanics"

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Undergrad How ionization energy can be lower than band gap?

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Graduate Is There a Layman-Friendly Explanation for Quantum Gravity Theory?

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Graduate Quantization of Angular Momentum Under Boosts

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Graduate A calculation about coherent state

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Undergrad What branches of mathematics are used to create this pattern?

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Graduate This forum gives conflicting info on the HUP

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Graduate Do all photons have the same electric field

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Graduate Complex wavefunctions and probability

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Graduate Why is (⟨n|) = (|n⟩)* = (a₊ⁿ|0⟩)* = ⟨0|a₋ⁿ wrong?

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Undergrad What does (1/√2)(Ψx − Ψy) represent?

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Graduate Black Bodies, the UV Catastrophe, and Plank's Quantum assertion

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Graduate When does ΔxΔp equal h/4pi in the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate Infintesimal transformations and Noether's theorem

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Graduate Bell’s theorem still reverberates - article

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Graduate Physically valid wave funtions

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Graduate Why do wavefunctions in quantum mechanics need to be complex?

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Graduate Is the Planck Length a 3d area?

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Graduate Optical molasses at high intensity (forces in OL's)

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Graduate Bound States of Infinite Square Well

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Graduate New version of double-slit experiment

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Graduate Testing whether entanglement is a matter of information or non-local?

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Graduate Path integral Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Is this section of the wikipedia page for gamma matrices wrong?

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Graduate SU_L x SU_R and SU_V x SU_A equivalence

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Graduate QFT - Commutator relations between P,X and the Field operator

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Graduate Single photon energy and multiple observers

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Graduate New Evidence for Pilot-Wave Theory

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