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A question about quantum entanglement
Graduate Double slit with time measurement
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Undergrad Why Doesn't Mass of Electrons Increase?
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Graduate Transition of free to bound electrons
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Graduate Position variables in the wave function
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Graduate Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate Why the generator operators of a compact Lie algebra are Hermitian?
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Graduate Wavefunction Normalization at Different Times
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Graduate Calculating d<p>/dt: Class Notes & Mistakes
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Graduate Commutator for fermion operators?
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Graduate One thing cannot be in two places at the same time
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Graduate Black hole information paradox?
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Graduate Commutation of time derrivative
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Graduate Entangled photons and polarisation.
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Graduate Unusual uncertainty relations question
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Graduate Generator of translations involving TIME
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Graduate Understanding Spinorial Representations in Relativistic QM/QFT
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Graduate What happens if the screen in young's double slit experiment is replac
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Graduate How do multiple electrons behave in the Kronig-Penny model?
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Graduate Two-photon physics/quantum electrodynamics
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Graduate Could we witness other universes begin?
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Graduate What is the Time Evolution of the Angular Momentum Operator?
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Graduate Question about Feynman diagrams with the integral
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Graduate Some questions regarding Statistical and Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate What causes a collapse - and does it depend on frames of reference?
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Graduate Can second quantization on strings create states out of the vacuum?
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Graduate Regarding the creation and annhilation operators in QFT
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Graduate Second Quantization-Kinetic operator
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Graduate Field strength tensor / matrix
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Graduate Calculating Eigenenergies of Photon in Cavity Hamiltonian
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High School What interference pattern of double-slit experiment does mean
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Graduate Is the energy operator (time derivative) a linear one?
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Graduate Probability Amplitude Maxwell's Equations
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Graduate Quantum corrections to massless fermionic field
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Graduate Pure, proper mixed, and improper mixed states in laymen's terms
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Graduate Hooke's Law on a microscopic level
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Graduate Measurement, information and entropy
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Graduate How do we know E is energy in the time-independent Schrodinger eq
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Graduate Quantum Entropy & Superdense Coding/Cryptography
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Graduate Is Quantum Time a Vector Instead of a Scalar?
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: New Idea About How it Works?
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Graduate What causes an electron to return to its ground state?
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Graduate Absorption And Emission Of Light According To Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Are Planck Units the Ultimate Limit for Measurements?
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Graduate Radius of effect of atomic interactions
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Graduate What happens on un-ionized electrons after ionization?
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Undergrad Sun Emission Spectrum: Redshift/Blueshift & Visible Light
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and the Second Law
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Graduate What is the radius of a superposition
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Graduate Almost uncontrollable fascination with astro/quantum physics
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Graduate Feynman diagrams and momentum conservation
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Graduate Quantum Spin vs Spin - Understand the Difference
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Graduate Steve Hawking's new take on black holes
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Graduate What Does the Term Field Signify in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate One dimensional Coulomb potential
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Graduate Question about electron slit experiments
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Graduate Assume QM is realistic but non-local: Explain superposition?
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Graduate Photon and anti-photon annihilation?
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Graduate Translating a Wavefunction: Differentiating with Respect to ##a_x##
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Graduate How does the pilot wave theory explain the double slit experiment?
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Graduate Does that classical world even exist?
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Graduate Inner Product in this step of the working
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Graduate Can't figure out how hawking radiation fixes thermodynamic problem
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Graduate How do you build a wave packet and inital conditions
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Graduate What is the pure imaginary number in Dirac's Principles of QM?
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Graduate Coarsening the reference vs. the detection?
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Graduate Ground state of harmonic oscillator
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Graduate Weak Localization: Explaining the Argument
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Graduate Step on Weinberg's QM Book (pp. 154-155)
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Graduate Generalized Schrödinger equation
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Graduate Can a universe form from a true vacuum through quantum tunneling?
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Graduate Quantum theory and the implications on human life
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Graduate Classical versus quantum interference.
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Graduate Characteristics of a Potential Well that is Proportional to -1/|x|
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Undergrad How Did the Bohr Model Account for the Atom's Spherical Appearance?
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Graduate Commutation of Vector-Potential and Field-Operator
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Graduate Understanding SU(2) Adjoint Repr of Algebra
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Graduate Fermi-Dirac distribution for metals
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Graduate Why does the classical world exist
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Graduate Gauge Fixing in Yang-Mills gauge theory
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Graduate Can a Universe with a Lone Star Survive without an Absorber?
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Graduate Derivative of Field-Operator and Vector-Potential
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Graduate As per Japanese physicist (Masahiro Hotta), energy teleporation is possible
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Graduate Path Superposition Vs Entanglement Superposition
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Graduate Can a Klyshko photon be blocked?
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Graduate What Causes the Unique Scattering Patterns in the Ramsauer–Townsend Effect?
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Graduate Normalization of the infinite square well.
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Graduate Light polarisation and photon spin
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Graduate How Would Solving Schrodinger and Dirac Equations Analytically Impact Science?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and extra dimensions?
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Graduate EPR Paradox Confusion: Understanding the Violation of Locality and Uncertainty
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Graduate Uncertainty and entanglement relationship
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Graduate Rules for transforming operators
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Graduate How to select the good basis for the special Hamiltonian?
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Graduate Unsimultaneity and quantum physics
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Graduate Why does energy propagate outwards?
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Graduate Quantum erase explained with waves
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Graduate Can heisenberg uncertainty principle be beaten by fast measurements?
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Graduate Why do we know the particle/quantum field theory is phys of symmetries
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Nucleon Bound Energies
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Graduate From noether theorem to Laplace-runge-lenz vector
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