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Graduate Is discreteness supplied or demanded?

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Graduate Bound state negative potentials into harmonic oscillator basis

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Undergrad Looking for some help with constructing a double slit experiment

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Graduate About self-measurement in entangled system

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Graduate Going back to basics: The Normal Force

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Graduate Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff (CBH) Formula question

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Graduate Homemade Quantum Eraser Experiment revisited with photos and full text

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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment Questions

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Graduate Questions about tensor operator

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Graduate Energy of electron + positron separated by distance

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Graduate Spherical harmonics of Hydrogen-like atoms

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Graduate Why can magnetic quantum no. only take values between -l and +l?

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Graduate Roksar-Kivelson Hamiltonian for a Quantum Dimer Gas

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Undergrad WaveLengths of Light Waves and their respective photons

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Graduate Photon interaction with atoms in transparent medias

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Graduate What is the Quantum Domain and Its Role in Levels of Existence?

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Graduate Quantum Teleportation: Confusion on Bell-State Measurement Step

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Graduate S-Matrix definition and terminology

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Graduate Quantum Vacuum and Quantum Foam

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Graduate Quantum interference. Really. Really?

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Graduate Calculating Commutator of Differential Angular Momentum

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Graduate Other Theories of the Quantum Brain

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Graduate Stern-Gerlach spin probability

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Graduate Black-body radiation spectral analysis

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Graduate Problem with Gaussian Integral

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Graduate Is the distintion between vector and rays relevant?

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Graduate Quantum mechanics: wave function (momentum space vs real space)

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Graduate What are some potential applications of quantum teleportation?

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Graduate Frequency = mass or does it?

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Graduate How Can Higher Order Relativistic Corrections Improve Hydrogen Atom Models?

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Graduate Alternative definition of constants

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Graduate Help with Operators written as components.

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Graduate A new version of quantum theory

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Graduate Photobleaching of fluorophores

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Graduate What Does a Negative or Imaginary Partition Function Indicate?

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Graduate Why this combination and not another

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Graduate Quantum Eraser experiment reproduced at home

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Graduate Electron Correlation in Molecular Systems: Meaning & Types

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Graduate The main problem with Hidden Variable Theory

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Graduate Sakurai Degenerate Perturbation Theory: projection operators

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Graduate Does information always conserve?

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Graduate How to quantize a particle confined to the surface of a sphere?

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Graduate Particle annihilation in quantum vacuum

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Graduate A question about interferometry (Zeilinger paper)

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Graduate Would gravity waves exhibit quantum properties?

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Graduate Kochen-Specker Proofs Look Wrong to Me

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Graduate Effect of phase change in wave function on energy

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Graduate State vector behaviour during coupling

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Graduate Explaining quantized angular momentum?

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Undergrad A little magic trick with polarized film

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Graduate Srednicki's normalization of path integral

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Graduate Superdense coding for sending 2 qubits at a time?

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Graduate Understanding Wavefunction Collapse After Measurement

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Graduate Trying to understand particle polarization

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Graduate Klein-Gordon Field: Understanding Eq. (1)

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Graduate Does quantum computer can to send the information faster than light ?

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Graduate Continuous resolution of identity in a discrete Hilbert-space

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Graduate Why must a scalar field have a constant vacuum expectation value?

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Graduate No solution with E=v0 for step potential

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Undergrad Does polarization change upon reflection?

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Graduate How to get the commutation relation of q and p

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Graduate Positronium from vacuum fluctuations ?

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Graduate The normalization constant in wave function and another questions

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Graduate Pointer Momentum of a Measuring Apparatus

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Graduate Crude Probability calculation for tunneling

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Graduate Conserved quantities as symmetry generators

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement Basic Experiment Question

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Graduate Expectation value of an operator

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Graduate Translation operator on a sphere

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Graduate The central mystery of quantum mechanics (according to Feynman)

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Graduate Weak gravity at quantum level?

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Graduate Orbitals while transitioning from free electron to ground state

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Graduate What causes different energy levels in atoms with multiple electrons?

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Graduate Covariant vs Canonical Formalism

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Graduate Non Polynomial Hamiltonian Constraint

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics as Quantum Information

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Graduate Projective representations of the spin group

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Graduate Isotropic absorption and emission

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Undergrad Do you know any properties of photons?

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Graduate Verifying Equality in Scarani's "Six Quantum Pieces

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Graduate Complementarity with single slit diffraction

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Graduate Does time reversal symmetry imply hermicity of s-matrix?

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Graduate Is ρV a reliable measure of atom probability in small volumes?

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Graduate Probability theory and quantum mechanics

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Graduate Angular momentum Operators and Commutation

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Graduate Physically realisable states and spectra

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Graduate Does uncertainty of position of particles make substances continuous?

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Graduate Remind me where to find a proof of a spectral theorem for RHS

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Graduate If you measure the energy of a system how does wave function collapse

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Graduate Is There Experimental Proof of Photon Existence Beyond Emission and Absorption?

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Graduate Why is there little decoherence for photons?

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Graduate How to compute Von Neumann entropy?

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Graduate Virtual particles and the Uncertainity Principle

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Graduate Shape of the magnet in the Stern-Gerlach experiment

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Graduate Set Up Eigenspace for Particle in 1st State: nx,ny,nz

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Graduate Understanding Coupled Spin Operators

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Graduate Net Angular Momentum: Clarifying Confusion

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Graduate Understanding S-matrix elements in QFT

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Graduate How Do Matrix Representations Relate to Wave Functions in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Photon's change of direction of propagation

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