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Graduate Physical explanation of time-correlation function and spectrum
- Cedric Chia
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High School Spectral lines and superposition of states
- Yuras
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Graduate Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian: Where did the time dependence go?
- yucheng
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Graduate Did rotating polarizer show violations of Bell's Inequality?
- Ian J Miller
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Graduate Gamma matrices and Gell-Mann's I - Y categorization
- James1238765
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Graduate Definition of the Wilson action on a lattice plaquette?
- James1238765
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Undergrad Why are atomic vibration frequencies quantized as integers?
- Martyn Arthur
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Undergrad Can a single photon be detected at multiple probe locations simultaneously?
- Inqur
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Graduate References: continuum approximation of discrete sums?
- yucheng
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Undergrad Can I use the Schrodinger picture when the Hamiltonian is time-dependent?
- Albfey
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Graduate Time ordering operator with generalized commutation relations
- kanato
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High School Curious about this proposition for measuring for FTL
- Hereweald
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Graduate Why Are the Peaks at Δ = 0 and Δ = ω_m Equally High?
- LionCereals
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Undergrad What is the significance of recoupling in spin network theories?
- Heidi
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Undergrad Use of Gell-Mann matrices as the SU(3) basis for gluon states?
- James1238765
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Undergrad Does the axion interact through weak and strong nuclear forces?
- Ranku
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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
- LifelongLearner125
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Undergrad How photon states are defined in quantum field theory
- LittleSchwinger
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Undergrad Evaluating the quark neutrino mixing matrix
- James1238765
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Graduate About the rigged Hilbert space in QM
- pabloweigandt
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Undergrad Is a Photon Considered a Real Object?
- fxdung
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Graduate How are quantum optical experiments designed? ;)
- yucheng
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High School Collapse and unitary evolution
- PaleMoon
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High School What about if I apply HUP to myself?
- dyn
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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?
- HomesliceMMA
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Undergrad Direction of motion of particles with total spin under magnetic field
- sal1854
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High School How to evaluate whether a photon's polarization is in superposition?
- fluidfcs
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Undergrad Three Plus Anti-symmetric Particles
- JohnH
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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 Why does ethane remain bonded after σ to σ* excitation?
- Lotto
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Undergrad Shankar on constraints and free parameters for a particle in a box
- kmm
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High School Does gravity cause wave function collapse?
- HomesliceMMA
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Undergrad Spinors and eigenspinors confusion
- happyparticle
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Graduate Adiabatic theorem for a 3 level system
- Malamala
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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?
- PreposterousUniverse
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Undergrad Annoying detail in derivation of Compton scattering
- crossword.bob
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Undergrad Does photon emission rate affect the double-slit diffraction pattern?
- Mr Fallspring
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Undergrad Young's slit experiment with single photons
- Marilyn67
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Undergrad Are Planck's black body oscillators QHOs?
- snoopies622
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High School Is there a resource that discusses wave collapse experiments?
- HomesliceMMA
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Graduate Equivalence of intertwiner and group element colorings in spin networks
- Heidi
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High School The wave solution to the Photoelectric effect
- in2infinity
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Graduate Proving Subadditivity of Entropy for Uncorrelated Systems in Pure States
- ergospherical
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Undergrad What does decoherence have to do with phases?
- Talisman
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Undergrad Spectral Decomposition of the State Space
- Lynch101
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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 Factoring the Klein-Gordon equation with orthogonal matrices
- BiGyElLoWhAt
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Undergrad Questions about the TU Delft loophole-free Bell test
- grzegorzsz830402
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Graduate Mathematical representation of two-entangled q-bits?
- Emrissa
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High School Non-parallel double slit experiment
- Devin-M
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Undergrad Are quantum fluctuations just field interactions between real particles?
- JuneSpring25
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High School What are quanta and why did Planck say energy is quantized?
- sinus
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Graduate The Effect of Time-Varying Electric Fields on a 2-Level Ion System
- Malamala
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Graduate Normalization of Morse potential wavefunctions
- Malamala
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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
- Elmo
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Undergrad What's the difference between HF and MP2 methods?
- physicisttobe
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High School How Can We Resolve Noise from Low Frequency Quanta in Electromagnetic Waves?
- snorkack
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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 Book recommendations for quantum information and computation
- Llukis
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Undergrad Why Does Quantum Entanglement Seem Puzzling Compared to Everyday Correlations?
- leonid.ge
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High School Is there any practical proof that quantum entanglement really works?
- sadaronjiggasha
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High School Quantum mechanical one-liners?
- sadaronjiggasha
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High School I have question regarding quantum physics (localizing an electron)
- sadaronjiggasha
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High School How do particles get their spin?
- BadgerBadger92
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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?
- .Scott
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Graduate Spin networks with different intertwiners
- Heidi
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Undergrad Al26 Meta Stable State: Forbidden Xray Transition?
- x_engineer
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Undergrad Understanding Entanglement and Born's Rule in Photon Polarization Experiments
- mbond
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High School Conceptual introduction to Feynman diagrams and QED
- DeltaForce
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Undergrad Feynman diagrams and sum over paths
- Husserliana97
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Undergrad Is elastic scattering of electrons by a solid possible?
- Philip Koeck
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Undergrad Creating NOON states by mixing classical and quantum light from SPDC
- 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
- hilbert2
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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
- VVS2000
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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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