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Graduate Universal quantum physics
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 Quantum Decoherence & RNR Experiment Explained
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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 Question about collapsing wave functions
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Graduate Amplitude to go from a location to another
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Undergrad What Are Quarks? Existence & Properties
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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 Wavefunction Collapse: Ideas & Scenario Analysis
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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 A discovered "paradox" in the double slit experiment
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Graduate Could the reason Gravity is not compatible with QM be
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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 Understanding the Dual of an HO Energy Eigenket
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Undergrad Can anyone tell me exactly what this represents?
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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 Quantum Mechanics: Complex Wavefunctions Explained
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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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Undergrad So just HOWdoes magnetism work?
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Graduate Really quick explanation for gauge theory?
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of the Wavefunction in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Quantum wave bursting out of 100 jars
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Graduate Hermitian conjugate of the annihilation operator
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Graduate What Does it Mean for a State to be Populated?
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Graduate Why Is Infinite Degrees of Freedom Important for Thermal States?
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Graduate Wave-particle duality confusion
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Graduate Ladder operators and the momentum and position commutator
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Graduate Continuous (non-discrete) Quantum States
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and the Infinite Well
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Graduate Understanding Feynman's Approach to Covalent Bonding in Hydrogen Molecule
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Graduate Poles Arising in a Scattered Particle in a Delta Potential
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Graduate What is meant by the frequency of a single photon?
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Graduate Conmutative Hermitian operator in degenerate perturbation theory
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Graduate Finite Square Well: Deriving Eq. (1)
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Graduate Trying to understand the WKB approximation
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Graduate Use Green's Function calculate photonic density of state
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Graduate Is There a Deeper Connection Between Orbital Angular Momentum and Particle Spin?
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Graduate How can a particle be in a classically prohibited region?
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Graduate Bibliography to understand Fermi, Bose and Boltzmann statistics?
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Graduate What Happens to Photons in the Double Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Pauli exclusion, symmetry, and electric repulsion
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Graduate Why does rotational invariance have to do with spin?
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High School Understanding the Process of Cold Welding
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Graduate What is intrinsic time-dependence in the Schrödinger picture?
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Graduate Negating the need for anything actually solid
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Graduate What is the meaning of an integrable model being SU(3) invariant?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle & simultaneous measurement
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Graduate Why don't creation and destruction operators conmute?
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High School Can someone tell me planck constant?
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Graduate At most explicit time-dependent operator
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Graduate How does Compton scattering suggest photons?
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Graduate What Happens to Schrodinger's Cat When Measuring an Entangled Atom?
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Graduate Commuting, non-commuting, anti-commuting
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