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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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Graduate Why Do Fermion and Boson Operators Commute?

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Graduate Is scalar in adjoint representation always real

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Graduate Common Eigenstates: Definition & Meaning

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Graduate Does quantum mechanics need a conscious observer?

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Graduate Does the Dirac ground state of the H atom have an electron current?

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Graduate The elementary particles behave both like particles and like waves

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Graduate Boltzmann vs. Gibbs entropy, negative energy

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Graduate I don't understand <u|A|v> notation

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Graduate How would you interpret experiments if you didn't know the theory?

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Graduate Why don't we see quantum weirdness in everyday world?

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Undergrad Gram-Schmidt Procedure: Step 2 - Calculating Inner Product

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Graduate What exactly is meant by a phase in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Where Is the Two-Loop Correction to g?

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Graduate Understanding the Degeneracy Discriminant in Classical and Quantum Regimes

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Graduate What is the significance of complex conjugates in Bra-ket notation?

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Graduate How to Measure the Mapped Phase in Ramsey Interferometry

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Graduate Question about Density of states

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Graduate Conceptual question of many particle quantum systems and state vectors

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Graduate Density of states for fermions and bosons

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Graduate Translation Invariant: Seeing it Intuitively & Mathematically

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Graduate How does particle detection affect a coherent state?

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Graduate Can Resonant Transmission happen when U > E?

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Graduate First order in time=> time cannot go backwards ?

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Graduate Some Queries about Eigenvalues and vectors

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Graduate Double-slit experiment and watching the electrons

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Graduate Proof that no non-local variable can exist ?

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Graduate Is every observable the generator of a symmetry?

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Graduate How Does Infinite Freedom Affect Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Is Uncertainty intrinsic property or a consequence of measurement ?

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Graduate How to get mean occupation numbers by Grand partition function?

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Graduate Physics behind quantum computer

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Graduate Special Entanglement: Particles Reacting to Themselves

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Graduate Phase space and phase angles in a Quantum picture.

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Graduate Determining how to find the 2-d hilbert space from fusing ising anyons

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Graduate How Does Feynman Explain Reflection in Light and Time?

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Graduate Boole vs. Bell - the latest paper of De Raedt et al

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Graduate Entanglement Swapping and FTL Communication

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Graduate Some basic derivations need improvement

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Graduate Can a Photon be Vibrationally Tuned with Sound?

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Graduate Separability of vibrational and rotational motion for diatomics

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Graduate Fermionic creation and annihilation

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Graduate Unbounded Hamiltonian leading to finite ground state

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Graduate Does Bell's Theorem Disprove Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate How are One-Dimensional Numbers Useful (Coupling Constants)

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Graduate Slit experiment follow up experimentation

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment, Testing the Test

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Graduate What causes electrons to move in wave form?

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Graduate Photon Amplitude: Is It Right or Wrong?

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Graduate Spinning Particles of 1/2 Integer Spin: Explained

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Graduate Magnetic quantum number and spin

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Graduate Quantum Physics take on Free-will

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Graduate Bound state of the delta function potential.

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Graduate Derivation of reflection/transmission coefficients

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Graduate Ballentine on the quantum Zeno paradox

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Graduate Zee's QFT book: equal time propagator

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Graduate Double Slit Exp: Electron 1 at a Time, Detector Not Detecting

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Graduate A question re. 'single-particle' states

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Graduate Is There a Mistake in the Spin Quantum Paradox Calculation?

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Graduate Feynman propagator and particle uniqueness

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Graduate What is the Lagrangian of interaction of photon and spin zero scalar?

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Graduate Photon vs other fundamental particles - decoherence

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Graduate 'Relativistic Quantum Chemistry' - Say whut?

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Graduate Understanding Electron Spin and its Effect on Protons

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Graduate Can atoms/ ions behave quantum mechanically at biofriendly temperature

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Graduate Can a Cup of Water Hold Infinite Quantum Worlds?

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Graduate Decoherence and Determinism: Understanding the Role of Randomness in Proper Mix

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Graduate Coordinates and casimir effect

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Graduate Geometry of the atomic structure

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Graduate Why Does the Stern-Gerlach Experiment Only Have a Gradient in the Z Direction?

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High School Photon Collisions: Do They Bounce or Pass Through?

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Graduate Is Max Planck law true for all electromagnetic waves?

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Graduate Is schwarzschild radius, where the whormholes could be made?

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Graduate Macro Superposition: Does Size Matter?

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Graduate What makes spin different from classical angular momentum and magnetic moment?

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Graduate Timing in entanglement investigations

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Graduate Quantum Physics and Lack of Measurement

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Graduate Quantum tunnelling - what is real?

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Graduate Understanding Joos Equations and Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate The jewel found in Quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Gravity - a non-physical entity

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Graduate How Is the Particle Density Operator Defined?

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Graduate How does the theory of general relativity explain gravity?

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Graduate Question on derivatives of Hermitian conjugate scalar fields

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Graduate Questioning assumptions behind Bell's and related theorems

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