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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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Graduate Understanding Commutators in Quantum Mechanics: General and Specific Questions

  • Drew Carey
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Graduate Energy levels and Hilbert Spaces

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Graduate Concerning the sparcity of the real-time quantum propagator

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Graduate Radioactivity and Quantum Zeno Question

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Graduate Iteration method for density equations

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Graduate Can Deterministic Chaos Mimic True Randomness?

  • Juan Largo
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Graduate What is Bob's task (Geason and Busch)

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Graduate How Does Shot Noise in a Photodiode Lead to White Noise Characteristics?

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Graduate In ground state, are spins aligned or anti-aligned?

  • Aziza
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Graduate Finding A Solution Using the Ladder Operators

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Graduate Two atoms in an optical cavity.

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Graduate Boundary and Continuity Conditions in 2D Potential Problem

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Graduate Stern-gerlach vs zeeman effect = paradox?

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Graduate Quantum Causality: Pauli's Definition Explained

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Graduate Taylor Series Expansion About a Local Minimum

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Undergrad Potential Barrier for different types of junctions

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Graduate Can We Truly Touch Anything at the Atomic Scale?

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Graduate Simulating Closed Timelike Curves through Quantum Optics

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Graduate Question about SPDC (Making entangled photons)

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Graduate When you measure an entangled particle is it obeying a symmetry law?

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Graduate How Can We Describe a Coupled System and Heat Bath in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Schrödinger's Cat, uncertainty, and observation question

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Graduate A new look at quantum mechanics?

  • naima
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Graduate Photoelectric Effect: Understanding Kinetic Energy of Electrons

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Graduate Photons -- where am I going wrong?

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Graduate Double Stern-Gerlach experiment

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Graduate Modeling a measurement as unitary

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Graduate Can the bare mass of a photon be set to zero in gauge theories?

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Graduate Understanding Hermitian Operators for QM Beginners

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Graduate How can I construct singlet, triplet, and more with S=1 ions?

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Graduate D-Wave quantum computer processor

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Observer Effect & Measurement Problem

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Graduate Unseen Light's Puzzling Behaviour

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Graduate Is Probability the Same as Possibility in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Can Tritium Undergo Nuclear Decay in 1 Second or 1 Eon?

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Undergrad About compton's effect of shift in wavelengths

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Graduate Double Slit and Shroedinger's Cat

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Graduate Planck's law for longer wavelengths

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Graduate Unitary time evolution - products of consecutive evolutions

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Graduate Heisenberg equation of motion for the Dirac field?

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Graduate Multiple events caused by a single photon

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Graduate Is the Wave Function a Fundamental Hypothesis in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Why is the anti-neutrino going against time?

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Graduate Unraveling the Atomic Spin: Understanding the Building Blocks of Matter

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Graduate Optics from a Quantum Mechanical stand point

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Graduate Origins of the electromagnetic force

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Graduate Do Quantum Particles Generate Gravity Waves?

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Graduate Quantum entanglement and communication

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Graduate Nature of Electrons inside an atom

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Graduate Behaviour of 3-fermions in a Magnetic Field

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Graduate Density Operators: What's the Copies of the Same System?

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Graduate Why Does Planck's Law Assume Oscillator Energy Applies to Electromagnetic Modes?

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Graduate How Does a Blackbody Emit Radiation Beyond Its Oscillator Frequencies?

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Graduate Material for Quantum Transport

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Graduate Use of QED equations of motion?

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Graduate Meaning of the Energy-Time Uncertainty Relation

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Graduate Does the uncertainty principle apply at all to photons?

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Graduate Questions about Quantum erasure with causally disconnected choice

  • samhealy
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Graduate Spin vs Dirac Equation: Understanding Physical Spin

  • LarryS
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Graduate Can Raising and Lowering Operators Be Found for an Anharmonic Oscillator?

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Graduate Stability against small perturbation.

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Graduate Will same event happen at a parrallel universe?

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Graduate What Does A Represent in the Quantum Mechanical Wave Equation Ae^{i(kx-wt)}?

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment with White Light and one Slit colour filtered

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Graduate The Simplest Eigenfunction for Schrödinger's Wave EQ?

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Graduate Advanced atomic physx: From Liouville Equation to the Bloch equations

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Graduate Query about quantum superposition and wave functions

  • tim1608
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Graduate Question about wavefunctions and their Hilbert space

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Graduate Destructive interference - What happens to the energy?

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Graduate Spin assumption for fermions in potential well.

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Graduate Thermal AND Quantum Fluctuations?

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Graduate Planck length and quantized position

  • Lit
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Graduate Did I Mess Up My CHSH Inequality Simulation?

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Graduate Simultaneous recognition of to change and being constant

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Graduate Measurement of singularity as a particle inside event horizon

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Graduate Bell's theorem: actual experiment event by event

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Graduate How are chemical bonds described by quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Collapse of Wavefunction, Double-Slit Experiment

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Graduate What are the SU groups? I.e SU(2), SU(3)?

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