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Undergrad Use of Gell-Mann matrices as the SU(3) basis for gluon states?

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Undergrad Axion Interaction: Weak & Strong Nuclear Forces

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Undergrad Query on use of prism in delayed choice quantum eraser experiment

  • Steve4Physics
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Undergrad Is the superposition of mesons (such as pion) a new particle?

  • James1238765
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Undergrad How Is the Matrix V Related to Dirac Spinors and Tensor Products?

  • James1238765
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High School Quantum field theory and wave particle duality

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Undergrad Single Photon States: Definition & Real-Life Applications

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Undergrad Evaluating the quark neutrino mixing matrix

  • James1238765
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Graduate About the rigged Hilbert space in QM

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Undergrad Is a Photon Considered a Real Object?

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Graduate How are quantum optical experiments designed? ;)

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High School Collapse and unitary evolution

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High School What about if I apply HUP to myself?

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Undergrad Partial trace and the reduced density matrix

  • yucheng
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Undergrad What is the probability of an electron emitting a photon?

  • James1238765
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High School Can we all agree "consciousness" is not required to collapse wave function?

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Undergrad Direction of motion of particles with total spin under magnetic field

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High School How to evaluate whether a photon's polarization is in superposition?

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Undergrad Three Plus Anti-symmetric Particles

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High School Can an electron remain in an exited state forever with constant energy input?

  • medammari
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High School What happens when ethane absorbs UV light?

  • Lotto
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Undergrad Shankar on constraints and free parameters for a particle in a box

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High School Why does anyone think gravity might collapse wave function?

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Undergrad Spinors and eigenspinors confusion

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Graduate Adiabatic theorem for a 3 level system

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High School Does the bomb experiment do a measurement?

  • Rene Dekker
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Undergrad How Do Quantum Numbers Influence Energy Levels in Atomic Systems?

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Undergrad Annoying detail in derivation of Compton scattering

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Undergrad Double-Slit Experiment: Does rate of photon emission matter?

  • Mr Fallspring
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Undergrad Young's slit experiment with single photons

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Undergrad Are Planck's black body oscillators QHOs?

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High School Is there a resource that discusses wave collapse experiments?

  • HomesliceMMA
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Graduate Gauge theory on a lattice: intertwiners, gauge potentials...

  • Heidi
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High School The wave solution to the Photoelectric effect

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Graduate Proving Subadditivity of Entropy for Uncorrelated Systems in Pure States

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Undergrad What does decoherence have to do with phases?

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Undergrad Spectral Decomposition of the State Space

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Graduate Induced dipole moment (adiabatic) following the rotating E-field

  • BillKet
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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment Mathematics

  • James Brady
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Graduate Question about factoring the Klein-Gordon equation

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Undergrad Few Questions about: TU delft "A loophole-free Bell test"

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Graduate Mathematical representation of two-entangled q-bits?

  • Emrissa
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High School Non-parallel double slit experiment

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Undergrad Quantum fluctuations & 'virtual particles'

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High School Photon-Electron-Quanta: Explained Simply

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Graduate The Effect of Time-Varying Electric Fields on a 2-Level Ion System

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Graduate Normalization of Morse potential wavefunctions

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Undergrad How Is the Planck Relation E=hf Derived?

  • PreposterousUniverse
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Undergrad Infrared Divergences in Vertex and Self Energy diagrams

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Undergrad MP2 vs. HF Method Explanation for Beginners

  • physicisttobe
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High School How Can We Resolve Noise from Low Frequency Quanta in Electromagnetic Waves?

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Undergrad Inner products and wavefunctions

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Undergrad Explicit non-local form for the vector potential?

  • Amentia
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Graduate Cause of spontaneous emission?

  • sol47739
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Undergrad Discover Beginner-Friendly Books on Quantum Information and Computation | Q&A

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Undergrad Why Does Quantum Entanglement Seem Puzzling Compared to Everyday Correlations?

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High School Is there any practical proof that quantum entanglement really works?

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High School Quantum mechanical one-liners?

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High School I have question regarding quantum physics (localizing an electron)

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High School How do particles get their spin?

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High School Idle Photons (motionless relative to the Earth's surface?)

  • James William Hall
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Undergrad Understanding Light Polarization: An Intuitive Explanation

  • Spathi
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Undergrad Lifetime and Linewidth: Solving the 2π Factor

  • Malamala
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High School Why can gravity escape from a black hole?

  • askmathquestions
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High School So this is a bit of a duplicate: Is the universe fully transparent to gravitons?

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Graduate Spin networks with different intertwiners

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Undergrad Al26 Meta Stable State: Forbidden Xray Transition?

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Undergrad Understanding Entanglement and Born's Rule in Photon Polarization Experiments

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High School What are Feynman Diagrams and how do they help explain Quantum Electrodynamics?

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Undergrad Feynman diagrams and sum over paths

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Undergrad Is elastic scattering of electrons by a solid possible?

  • Philip Koeck
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Undergrad How Can Laser Light Mixing Reveal Quantum Entanglement?

  • James2018
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Undergrad Error of the WKB approximation

  • phyQu
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Undergrad What causes qubit superpositions to form?

  • oknow
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High School Why doesn't the detector affect the result?

  • Mervinoc
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Undergrad The pattern of one photon at a time passing through large-distance setups?

  • tade
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Undergrad Double-slit experiment, determining which slit an electron passed thru

  • tade
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Graduate Changing Hamiltonian with some eigenvalues constant

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Undergrad How is an interference pattern changed by an external field?

  • tade
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Graduate The Probability Distribution of a Bosonic Field when Emitted

  • JohnH
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Undergrad Other ways of finding expectation value of momentum

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Undergrad Looking For Explanation of New Interferometer Article

  • Hornbein
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Undergrad Is the magnetic moment of a hydrogen atom not equal to Bohr's magneton?

  • computer
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Undergrad Question on bra vs ket notation

  • Ahmed1029
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High School Tachyons and imaginary numbers?

  • BadgerBadger92
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High School Tensor product of operators and ladder operators

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Why are Planck units considered fundamental?

  • Conn_coord
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Undergrad Double-slit experiment with momentum entangled pair of photons

  • Christian Thom
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Undergrad Speed of individual photons in a vacuum?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Measurement accuracy or variation

  • Conn_coord
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Undergrad How does a process of a Raman transition break quantum entanglement?

  • tade
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Undergrad What is this notation D|(n;n')|, and how to solve it?

  • K-Manu
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Undergrad Spin expectation value for one particle vs actual measurement

  • Ahmed1029
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High School How is energy transferred from a wave to a photon?

  • curiouschris
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Undergrad About photon-polariser interaction quantum-molecular-level mechanics

  • tade
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Undergrad Curious about an idea of a modified polariser to send signals with QE

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Undergrad Weinberg Lectures in QM (2013 Ed.), Equation 7.10.15

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Undergrad Quantum mechanics stationary state

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Undergrad Negative energy when a laser goes through lithium niobate crystal?

  • gggnano
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Undergrad Density Operators of Pure States

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