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Graduate Radial Probability Distribution Curve for Hydrogen Atom

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Graduate Photon Size: Uncertainty Principle & QM Explained

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Graduate Does Time Slow Down at the Quantum Level as We Get Smaller?

  • Windseaker
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Graduate Understanding Probability Amplitude, State Operators and Galilei Group

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Graduate Can someone explain the behavior of particles in the double slit experiment?

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Undergrad What does the definition the energy is not continuous mean?

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Graduate Can energy be converted to information?

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Graduate Beam Splitter - Commutation relations

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement vs Space Time

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Graduate Are quantum no-go theorems overrated/potentially counterproductive?

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Graduate Probability density and acceleration

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Undergrad What is the dimensional formula for Planck's constant?

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Undergrad Emission spectrum wavelengths.

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Graduate Simultaneous measurement of noncommuting observables

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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator: Let a+,a- be the Ladder Operators

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Graduate What is the v(p) polynomial in radial wave function

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Graduate Quantum field theory basic concepts

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Graduate Is Phi^3 Theory in Five Dimensions Supposed to Be Finite?

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Undergrad If i have a=exp x, and i know that my uncertainty in a is 3% ( at all

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Graduate Are there uncaused events in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Does measuring equipment cause wave-particle behavior in the double slit experiment?

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Undergrad Why are photons released when electron jump states?

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Graduate Operators with commutator ihbar

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Graduate Self-dual and Anti Self-dual antisymmetric tensor

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Graduate Ball throwing model and some questions about QED

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Graduate Is True Randomness a Fundamental Aspect of the Universe?

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Graduate Fourier Transform, and the uncertainty principle

  • YaelPerkal
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Graduate Does a zero Hamiltonian mean time is undefined for a closed system?

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Graduate Did the Goudsmit-Uhlenbeck analysis of spin consider relativity?

  • lugita15
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Graduate Why multiple scattering in double wells is easy to solve

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Graduate The angular momentum operator acting on a wave function

  • Jerrynap
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Graduate How Can A.K. Ramanujan's Mathematics Enhance Understanding of Modern Physics?

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Graduate What is Schwinger terms and what is the origin?

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Graduate Do Hamiltonians Fully Represent All Observables in Quantum Mechanics?

  • kye
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Graduate Time-energy uncertainty and vacuum fluctuations

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Graduate Second Quantization: Single Particle Basis States

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Graduate Can you explain the fugacity of boson gas in Bose-Einstein Condensation?

  • Ang Han Wei
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Graduate Proof that a Dirac particle has spin 1/2?

  • AlbertEi
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Graduate Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Unknown Expression

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Graduate Representing Operators as Matrices and Differential Operators

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Graduate Particle Number Operator (Hermitian?)

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Graduate Difference between first-kind and non-demolition measurements

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Graduate Preservation of Poisson Bracket Structure upon quantization?

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Graduate Where Can I Find Resources on Bogoliubov Transformations for Quantum Mechanics?

  • hidetsugu
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Graduate Can light pass through a rapidly modulated slit?

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Graduate Trying to calcualte the uncertainty

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Graduate Which axis does flux pinngin work on?

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Graduate Quantum Universe everything that can happen does happen

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Graduate Angular momentum of identical particles

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Graduate Gauge invariance and conserved current in SU(N)

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Graduate Is the wave function an objective feature of reality or subjective uncertainty?

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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty - ΔλΔx

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Graduate Uncertainity and Mass teleporting

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Graduate New article about after life and Quantum physics

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Graduate Binding energy, Rydberg formula and momentum in muonic hydrogen

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Graduate Why is the creation operator not just energy increase?

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Graduate Feynman Hellman Theorem: dependence of E on [itex]\ell[/itex] Hydrogen

  • MisterX
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Graduate How do I express p1 |v1> + p2 |v2> for a mixture, not a pure state?

  • naima
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Graduate DLCZ protocol - what does the beamsplitter do?

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Graduate How can an electron in a steady-state have a non-zero speed?

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Graduate Why can't we isolate quarks by separating them faster than gluons move?

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Graduate Why does Planck's Law have different peaks?

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Graduate Bound state of finite square well, why do we make this statement?

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Graduate Does Potential in Quantum Mechanics Only Refer to Electrical Potentials?

  • Physics_UG
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Graduate Could someone clear up the paper on casimir effect

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Graduate What Happens to Spin in 2+1 Dimensions and Beyond?

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Graduate Eigen value of total angular momentum

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Top 10 physicists in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate How did the variable change in the Dirac-Delta function property equation?

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Graduate Planck's Constant/Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Explicit form of scalar propagator

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Graduate 1/2 spin particle in a norm-constant magnetic field

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Graduate Why can we apply the symmetries of S-Matrix to part of Feynman diagram

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Graduate The Schrodinger Equation: How to Solve for Time Evolution and Eigenstates

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Graduate Is the interference of Fullerene due to the center-of-mass approximation?

  • craigi
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Graduate Can exited states exist without a ground state?

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Graduate How to show that cloning by measurement is impossible?

  • greypilgrim
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement for the layman?

  • Tembo441
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Graduate Adding angular momenta using levi-civta symbol

  • geoduck
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Undergrad Paired electrons in a magnetic field

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Graduate Problem with quantum FTL communications

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Graduate Does all quantum particles exist?

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Graduate Trace of operator with continuous spectrum

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Graduate Quantum Entangled Emitter and Receiver

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Graduate Could the hidden variables be encoded in the observer?

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Graduate Mathematically what causes wavefunction collapse?

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Graduate Lee Smolin Real Ensemble I. questions

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Graduate Are Eigenstates of a Wavefunction Entangled?

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Graduate Energy of an Infinite Square Well

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Graduate Why do we conjugate operators in QFT?

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Graduate Nonlinear Optics: Split Method & Results

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Graduate Expectation value of a hermitian operator prepared in an eigenstate

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Graduate Not understanding cosmological constant in field theory

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Graduate What is the relationship between creation and annihilation operators in k-space?

  • Trave11er
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Graduate Van del waals interaction in qm

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Graduate Is chirality dependent on the representation of the gamma matrices?

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Graduate Quantum Principles of Quantum Computers

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Graduate Intuition behind superposition probabilities?

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Graduate Understanding Dirac Notation in Quantum Mechanics

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