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Graduate Deriving Bloch equations from Liouville equation with spherical tensors

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Graduate Query about quantum superposition and wave functions

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Graduate Do different measurement operators span different Hilbert spaces?

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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

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Graduate CHSH inequality simulation with 22.5° and 67.5° angles

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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 test experiment setup: photon pair measurement procedure

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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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Graduate The Time Independence of Normalization

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Graduate Allowed energy levels of electrons

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Graduate Double-Slit Interference in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Why is quantum physics needed to explain photosynthesis ?

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Graduate Hydrogen Atom in homogeneous magnetic vector potential

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Graduate Does the graviton mediate gravity or is it just an excitation of a field?

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Graduate Deriving the photon rotation formula in MCNP anisotropic scattering

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Graduate Transition probabilities subject to Lloyd's finite information limit?

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Graduate Detecting state of an electron

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Graduate Spacetime and gravity and fields

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Graduate Degeneracy: Is it Necessary for Experiments?

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Graduate Dimensions of Hilbert Spaces confusion

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Graduate Polarization coincidence formula for known polarization?

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Graduate Does Gaussian function give bound states for a particle?

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Graduate Quantum mechanicss after electrical and electronics engineering?

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Graduate A Commutator of annihilation operator

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Graduate State vectors and Eigenvalues?

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Graduate The probability of something happening

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Graduate Coherence time of parametrically downconverted entangled photons

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Graduate Fourier transform of an assumed solution to a propagating wave

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Graduate Is the trace of an outer product always equal to 1?

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Graduate Why are some photons reflected and others refracted at a surface?

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Graduate Virtual Particles in Inter-Quark Space

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Graduate Article on Hanson quantum teleportation

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Graduate The rigid rotator and Angular momentum.

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High School How does quantum teleportation work?

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Graduate Does CO2 re-emit infrared radiation to warm the atmosphere?

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Graduate Some questions about the heisenberg picture

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Graduate Non Commuting Observables not Representing a Complete Set?

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Graduate Casimir Effect, what does (x,θ) mean?

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Undergrad Relation between photons and EM wave frequency

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Graduate Can quantum mechanics be formulated using index notation instead of Dirac notation?

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Graduate Unitary transformation of pure states to other pure states

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Graduate Photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM)

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Graduate The state of a hydrogen electon ?

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Graduate Forming new energy levels in semiconductor by UV light

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Graduate Physical meaning of solution to step potential with E = V0

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Graduate Is spacetime real or abstract, and why quantize gravity?

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Undergrad How does atmospheric dissipation affect UV light measurements?

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Graduate Equation of Motion from Lagrangian - Zee QTF in a Nutshell

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Graduate Does uncertainty principle apply to quantities other than position and momentum?

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Graduate Source for "Shut up and calculate"

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Graduate What happens to psi in Infinite potential well

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Graduate A question about CP Violation.

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Graduate What doe it mean that energy is quantized?

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Graduate Feynman's detectors at double slit

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Graduate Emergent coordinate systems in quantum physics

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Graduate Hypothesis of Quantum Entanglement acting up particle/wave duality

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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality and Particle Specific Identification

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Graduate Temporal coherence in Computational ghost imaging

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Graduate Free particle in one dimension

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Graduate Uncertainty principle - Nature of observer

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Graduate Are all wave functions energy-eigenstates?

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Graduate Why do we think that collapse occurs at measurement?

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Graduate Symmetry of Spatial Wavefunctions

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Graduate Measurements and wavefunction collapse.

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Graduate How to match the hydrogen radial equation recursion relation to Laguerre polynomials

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Graduate What does the symbol \mathscr{P} in Atom-Photon Interactions stand for?

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Graduate Photon's spin and orbital angular momentum

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Graduate Wave function of particles approching 0 K

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Graduate Dual Tensors in Lagrangian: Why are they not included in U(1) theory?

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Graduate Fundamental forces and Pauli's exclusion principle

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Graduate Does the electron's instantaneous wave function violate relativity?

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Graduate Is Zeno's Paradox Relevant in Understanding Digital and Real-World Motion?

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Graduate Complete set of eigenfunctions

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Graduate Can electron density be simplified to 2 sum of squared wavefunctions?

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Graduate Wave function collapse in QED?

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Graduate Unitary operator acting on state

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Undergrad Quantum theory and electronic engineering

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Graduate Proof that the linear momentum operator is hermitian

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Graduate Must the Lagrangian density be Hermitian?

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Graduate Experiment: Photon propagating trough dense neutrino beam

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Graduate Use of ancillary bits in quantum computing

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Graduate Are All Electrons Entangled with Each Other?

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Graduate How are wavefunctions and eigenkets used differently in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Ehrenfest Theorem in Quantum Mechanics: Bohr-Sommerfield's Theory

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Graduate The dot or cross product of two operators acting on a state

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Graduate Linearisation of Lie Group Higher dimensional groups

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Graduate Can Our Consciousness Exist in Multiple Parallel Universes Simultaneously?

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Graduate What is the impact of discontinuous potentials on quantum harmonic oscillators?

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Graduate Imaginary free energy and decay rate

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Graduate Why Are Physicists Struggling to Quantize Gravity in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Why does J = L + S work if L and S act on different spaces?

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Graduate Complex conjugate of a wavefunction

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Graduate Double slit experiment with magnets

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Graduate Stern Gerlach Experiment and Spin

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