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Graduate Why Do We Need Complex Wavefunction in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Hydrogen probability distribution

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Graduate Expand ψ(o) in terms of eignestates

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Graduate Trouble replicating a calculation in Silicon Nanoelectronics

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Graduate Dealing with complex operation in Quantum mechanics

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Graduate What are the matrix elements of the angular momentum operator?

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Graduate Bra and Ket Representation in Dual Hilbert Space

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Graduate Is a state space with indistinguishable particles a quotient? Of what?

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Undergrad Recreating double slit experiment without laser

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Graduate Uncertainties in Srednicki's Book

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Graduate Uncertainty principle leads to superlumina ?

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Graduate The uncertainty operator and Heisenberg

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Undergrad NMR: Simple Question About Aligning w/ External Magnetic Field

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Graduate Understanding Angular Momentum States and Clebsh-Gordan Coefficients

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Graduate Matrix of the force on a two-level atom

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Graduate Interpreting Wavefunction in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate If a photon's emission is detected is it real or virtual?

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Graduate Dynamic Casimir Effect: Questions Answered

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Graduate Time independent wave function vs the initial wave function

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Graduate Are all selfadjoint operators in quantum mechanics bounded?

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Undergrad Nonlinear optics: second harmonic generation

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Undergrad Is Schrodinger's cat experiment a paradox?

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Graduate Wave function simplification in relativistic coordinates?

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Graduate Harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian.

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Graduate Asymptotic properties of Hydrogen atom wave function

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Graduate Does this equality have a name?

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Graduate Expanding delta in Field Theory Derivation of Euler-Lagrange Equations

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Graduate Delayed Choice Eraser with dispersion pattern controlled detectors

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Graduate Entanglement and interference effects

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Graduate Joint Number state switching operator?

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High School Uncertainty principle and momentum

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Graduate Finding Hydrogen eigenfunction u(2,0)

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Graduate Are photons the antiparticle of itself?

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Graduate To get the complete Radial Wavefunction, why do we multiply by Y(l,m)?

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Graduate Klein Gordon ret. Greens function on closed form

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Graduate Peskin and Schroeder derivation of Klein-Gordon propagator

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Graduate Is the real world mostly collapsed?

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Graduate Helicity and the Uncertainity Principle

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Graduate Preferred Basis and Superposition

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Graduate Drawing a Feynman Diagram: Lagrangian Basics

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Graduate Physical meaning of probability density

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Graduate Hydrogen atom: potential well and orbit radii

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Graduate Why does ψ have a ghost number of -1 in BRST symmetry?

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Graduate Trace of the spin matrix of spin-1

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Undergrad Conceptual Question regarding Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Understanding the Separation of Solutions in Partial Differential Equations"

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Graduate HUP and Rest Mass of Electrons

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Undergrad Could Niels Bohr's Atomic Model Be Simplified by Assuming Stationary Electrons?

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Graduate Why People Rarely Discuss the Wave Function of Anyons - Explained

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Graduate Why are Microwaves Better for Quantum Info Stability?

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Graduate Quantum gates: what is the hardware?

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Graduate When can the exchange interaction be neglected?

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Graduate Probability and probability amplitude

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Graduate Why do we use normalization twice in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Easy way to get the expectation value of momentum squared?

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Graduate Do the quantum effects we observe in visible light occur in all wave

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Graduate Probability of an entanglement state

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Graduate Problem on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Physical observables, locality, and a preferred basis

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Graduate What Makes Quantum Spin Different from Classical Angular Momentum?

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Graduate Orthonormality of a complete set of eigenvectors

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Graduate Does Heisenberg apply to a collapsed wavefunction?

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Graduate Electromagnetic waves with regard to photons

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Graduate Relationship between a field and its quanta

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Graduate Does decay of particles give evidence of time being real?

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Graduate Coupling of spin to an electric field

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Graduate Could a Type-1 and Type-2 Superconductor Oscillator Work?

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Undergrad Excitation to higher energy levels

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Graduate Unveiling the Mystery: How is the Wavefunction of an Electron Revealed?

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Graduate Solving the Shroedinger equation for a harmonic oscillator potential

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Graduate Why transition rate independent of time in perturbation theory?

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Graduate Dividing line between QM and CM?

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Graduate Brian Cox and the Pauli Exclusion Principle

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Graduate How is spin measured experimentally ?

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High School The uncertainty when measuring time

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Graduate How are transistors and QM tied

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Graduate Calculating Probability Current for Free Particles

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Graduate Does Dirac Notation Determine Quantum States Uniquely?

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Undergrad Sommerfeld model and fine spectral lines

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Graduate Spin angular momentum of a spin-1 particle

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Graduate Entanglement, entropy and photon energy

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Graduate Can a Wavefunction Change State After Collapse with Disturbance?

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Graduate Quantum levitation and quantum locking applications

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Graduate Can Single Photons Bend When They Hit a Material?

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Graduate A question about Wick theorem?

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Graduate Do atoms generally exhibit superposition when not isolated?

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Graduate Degenerate Perturbation Theory

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Graduate Possible explanation for the wave-particle duality ?

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Graduate How do we know (BΨ) is not equal to zero?

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Graduate Can someone explain the process of finding c(n) in an infinite well?

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Graduate No charge polarization on positronium in p-orbital state ?

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Graduate Does the act of observing/measuring define an arrow of time?

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Graduate Irreducible graphs and srednicki's book

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Graduate Can Quantum Suicide and Being in Two Places at Once Coexist?

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Graduate What are the implications of the Pauli Exclusion Principle across the universe?

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Graduate What is the magnitude of the relativistic wave-vector?

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Graduate Is the QED Lagrangian Invariant Under C, P, or T Separately?

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Graduate Negative variance of an observable quantity

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Graduate How Does EPR Spin Measurement Challenge Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Quantum View of Electron and Photon

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