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What do the Ms in ml and ms quantum numbers stand for?
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Understanding Entangled Particles: Is it Possible?
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Green's function of the Klein-Gordon operator
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Planck's Unit and universal constants
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NYT review of How the hippies saved physics
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Are Thermal States Always Mixed States?
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What are some examples of imperfect entanglement in spin 1/2 systems?
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Solving QM-like Problem (Shankar, Coupled Mass)
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Why does the tensor product in QM produce unentangled states?
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Velocity of alpha particle within nucleus
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How can I present my new atomic model to the scientific community?
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Pasting polarized lenses to a PBS ?
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Black body radiation and maximum spectral density
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Why Is a Given State an Eigenstate of Field Operators in Quantum Field Theory?
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How Does Δml=0 and Δl=±1 Apply in Quantum Mechanics?
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Linear to Circular Polarisation Questions
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Is there really such a thing as a definite state?
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Tensor techniques in $3\otimes\bar 3$ representation of su(3)
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What is the relationship between frequency and wave function?
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Quantum Computing: How Fast Could It Go?
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Why does the Klein-Gordon propagator have a negative i in the exponential?
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Three-Particle Quantum Nonlocality under Strict Locality Conditions
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Compton vs photoelectric effect.
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Maximizing Time and Energy: Prioritizing QM Topics for Novice Learners
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Hidden variables - Bell - The Law of Malus?
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Entanglement Between Photons that have Never Coexisted
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How Do Infinite and Finite Light Sources Produce Different Wavefront Shapes?
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How Do Entangled Particles Communicate Faster Than Light?
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Heisenberg uncertainty principle and wavelength of light
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Computing Wigner D-Matrices: Contradiction Found
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Quantum entanglement as a higher dimension arc?
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Why does the propagator converge?
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Rydberg Blockade: Questions on Using for Single Photon Creation
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What is conserved in the various forms/types of entanglement?
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Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser communication
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Radiation Vectors: Wave Direction After Electron Energy Shift?
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Wave function collapse in curved spacetime
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Understand the idea of superposition
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Preparing entangled states, how is this possible in the simpest cases?
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Are fermions truly antisymmetric in their wave function?
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Can we look upon entanglement as measurement?
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Proton Decay- What happens to the proton after too many decays ?
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Lorentz,gallilean transformation
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Photons and charged particles and dark matter
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Orthogonal eigenvectors and Green functions
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New to quantum and have a few questions
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Simultaneously testing the Kochen-Specker and Bell theorems
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Is Entanglement Finite or Timeless in Varying Spacetime Curvature?
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Why is it usually the K-shell electron that is ejected?
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How do I decide that a particle is isolated?
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Problem with Bell's lambda - again
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Is Dark Energy Linked to Vacuum Energy in QFT?
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Understanding what happens when particles have a higher energy
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Space Translation: Sidney Coleman's Lectures Problem
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Eigenvector proof from Dirac's QM
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Introduction to the development of Quantum Mechanics
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How to Derive the Number of Components of a Rank-2A Tensor in Four Dimensions?
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Cross-section for elastic scattering?
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Virtuality of a nearly on-shell photon
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Quantum entanglement and relativity of time
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Bell's inequality when efficiency < 1
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Non locality of quantum mechanics
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Do bras and inner products relate in a Rigged Hilbert Space?
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Is the Field Operator in Quantum Field Theory an Observable or a Creation Tool?
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Physical significance of eigenvalues?
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Mossbauer Effect how does it work?
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Spin and intrinsic angular momentum
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Free action invariant under galliean boosts?
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Commutation relation of the creation/annihilation operators in a field
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Schrodinger equation molecules
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Spin superposition-am I understanding things right?
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Question RE: Susskind Entanglement Lecture 2
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Calculate the Clebsch-Gordon coefficient for the SP(3,R) by SU(3)
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Doubt regarding rotations in spinor space
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Peskin/schroeder RG flow diagram
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Dirac's equation and anti-matter
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Mandl & Shaw QFT Second Edition: Sign Discrepancy on Page 361
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Is this a Deterministic Universe
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Lagrangian explicitly preserves symmetries of a theory?
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The Pauli Exclusion Principle and Repulsive Forces in Atoms
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Braking radiation and electromagnetic self action
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Manipulating spin of entangled particles
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Would dbb cause an unequalness between the paths?
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Is Gravity a Field of Virtual Particles or a Curvature of Space-Time?
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Total momentum operator for free scalar field
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What does the quantum butterfly effect tell us?
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Is there any hope at all for Locality?
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Why the off-diagonal elements of electric dipole element are zero?
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Accelerating Atomic Decay Rate of Unstable Elements
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Molecular Hamiltonian: H-Nucleus and Electron Interactions for H2 Molecule
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Why some photons are absorbed while propagating through glass
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Another double slit question - noob
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Does the Observer have anything to do with conscious choice
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Commutators; matrices? numbers? both?
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How Can Quantum Interference Control Stabilize a Frequency Comb's Carrier Phase?
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Does Cooling Radioactive Material Affect Quantum Condensate Radiation?
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Old Quantum Theory & Quantization of Action
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Nick Herbert's Proof: Quantum Non-Locality Explained
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How to get wavelength of the wave function?
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How to apply ladder operators?
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