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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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Graduate Can an electron emit a photon without returning to ground state?

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Graduate Is There a Relationship Between Principal Quantum Number and Amplitude?

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Graduate Tunneling from Rectangular barrier - Exponential Decay ?

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Graduate Time-independence of seperable solutions of the Schrödinger eqn

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Graduate Do single photons disperse like a wave?

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Graduate Is the product rule on operators different from traditional calculus?

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Graduate Proton Vibrations: The Behavior of Protons When Not Bound to Nucleus

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Graduate Ground state: singlet or triplet

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Graduate Why does the operator S_p - S_n in deuteron result in a zero expectation value?

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Graduate How Do Individual Photons Behave in the Double Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Atomic recoil and the polarization of photon emitted

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Graduate What Are Hermitian Operators and Their Significance in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Entanglement and separable state

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Graduate Is the wave function/packet an actual property

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Graduate Wave function orthogonal components

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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 Sudden reduction in spring stiffness for 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 Why does the commutator term vanish in d⟨p⟩/dt?

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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 Deriving Feynman diagrams from functional derivatives in QFT

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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 How does quantum entropy relate to superdense coding and quantum 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 Why does the Sun have a continuous spectrum instead of discrete lines?

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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 Do all electrons from an electron gun pass through the slits in a double slit experiment?

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Graduate How does non-locality explain single-particle 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 Why does weak localization focus on time-reversed path pairs?

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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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