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Graduate Conservation of angular momentum (central force)

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Graduate Coherent States: Ʃ(|α|2)n = 1?

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Graduate Time-dependent SE for 'discrete' time steps

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Graduate Photons as virtual particles in High energy

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Graduate Entangled Particles: Can They Be Distinguished?

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Graduate How to determine the product of two Hermitian operators is Hermitian

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Graduate Could element 137 electrons become superluminal in a retrocausal atom?

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Graduate Combine Hamiltonians of two different bases

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Graduate Why are wavefunctions represented as eigenvectors?

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Graduate Why all the clinging to locality?

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Graduate Using Quantum Dots for Single Photon Creation in Lab Research

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Graduate Pauli's exclusion principle

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Graduate Find Frequency of Molecular Vibration for Melanin, Serotonin, & Insulin

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Graduate Where to learn the matrix formulation of QM

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Graduate What causes the electron spin collapse

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Graduate Feynman Lectures and Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Are Bound States Always Entangled in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Simple electron recoil question

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Graduate Interaction between wavefunction of two particles

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Graduate Solving [H,x] Operator Algebra

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Graduate Contractions of indices of the 4-vectors

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Graduate The phrase, predictions of quantum mechanics

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Graduate Why is wave/particle duality so hard to imagine?

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Graduate Open Problems in Interplay between QM & 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?

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Graduate Phrase 'the field is in [certain] representation of a [certain] group'

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Graduate Has this experiment been done?

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Graduate Emission of photons by vibrational relaxation of molecules

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Graduate What does 0 amplitude mean in waves and quantum physics?

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Graduate Direct calculation of the propagator

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Graduate What is the physical meaning for a particle in harmonic oscillator ?

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Graduate Rotation and Boost Commutating on the Same Axis

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Graduate Understanding N-point Correlation Functions in Particle Scattering Processes

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Graduate Why can you only contract one field in the Wilson approach to renormalization?

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Graduate Uncertainty principle asymmetric with respect to time?

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Undergrad Orbitals and Nucleus - Quick question

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Graduate Adding Angular Momentum is commutative, right?

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Graduate Can Two Photons Really Form Bound States?

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Undergrad Why are waves represented as complex numbers?

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Graduate Sum or Integral? Understanding the Calculation of Casimir Effect Measurements

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Graduate Double delta function potential: two bound states vs one ?

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Graduate Question about quantum of excitations in QED

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Undergrad Probability rate of calculation

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Graduate Unbound particle through potential

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Graduate Hamiltonian matrix off diagonal elements?

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Graduate Fermions and Coherent States: What's the Connection?

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Graduate Do photons carry more than energy, momentum and angular momentum?

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Graduate Where is the boundary between quantum and classical mechanics?

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Graduate Solving Schrödinger Equation: Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Graduate Is Velocity in Quantum Mechanics Meaningless?

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Undergrad Feynman lectures and electron path

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Graduate Many Particle in a one dimensional box

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Graduate Rotation of Spin Operator and Vector in 3D Space

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Graduate What Is the Physical Significance of Planck Units and Their Derivation?

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Graduate UP regarding value of a field and its rate of change

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Graduate Sommerfeld uncertainty principle

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Graduate Antimatter Why does it annhiliate on contact with ordinary matter?

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Graduate Is the Number of Colors in QCD Limited to Just 3?

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Graduate Entanglement to speak faster than light

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High School Confusing that light is the only wave that doesn't move through

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Graduate Why does particle size affect EM radiation scattering

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Graduate Can anyone make sense of these equations in this pdf

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Graduate Ehrenfest theorem, is there any condition for the operator Q?

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Graduate Stillness of Systems: Physics Laws & Double-Slit Experiment

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Graduate Finding the operators for time derivatives of observables

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Graduate Why time is not an observable in quantum theory?

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Graduate How to understand the off-diagonal elements

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Graduate Gaussian Integrals for Quantum States of well Defined Momentum

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Graduate Analyzing Bell's inequality for different measurement angles

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Graduate What Are the Origins and Mechanisms Behind the H-α Hydrogen Spectral Series?

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Graduate How Does Hawking Radiation Influence the Black Hole Information Paradox?

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Graduate Bell experiment: Rotate measurement device 180°

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High School Information carrued by photons.

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Undergrad QM: Need Help Applying Fourier Transform

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Graduate Electromagnetism - interaction between the electron and the quarks

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Graduate Elektromagnetic field ~ probability amplitudes

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Graduate Spontaneous Emission + Reversibility

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Graduate Can we ever truly predict the future positions of atoms?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Understanding Particles at a Distance

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Graduate Electron Energy Level Transitions

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Graduate Understanding the Wave Nature of Photons in Double Slit Experiments

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Graduate What happens if you measure the spin of entangled particle second time

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Graduate How Does Quantum Entanglement Enable Faster Than Light Information Transfer?

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Graduate Measuring spin on electrons prepared in various directions

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Graduate Understand Operator Dispersion in Sakurai's "Modern Quantum Physics

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Graduate Double-Slit Experiment With Various Energy Particles

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Graduate Why does a BBO crystal create entangled photons?

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Wave-Particle Duality

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Graduate What is the significance of operator conventions in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Lowest energy state with infinite and finite potential

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Undergrad Reduced Planck's constant and Planck's constant?

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Graduate Can Electron Degeneracy Pressure be Visualized?

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Graduate Hellman-Feynman Theorem: Coulomb Repulsion & Attraction

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Graduate Measurement of entangled particles causes dechorence at a distance?

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Graduate Wave functions for 2D potential with spin interactions

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Graduate Completeness Relation: Significance & Multiplying State Vector

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Graduate Concepts about infinite potential well

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Graduate How do we get the expectation value formula?

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High School Variation of the Double-slit experiment

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Graduate Can continuously (strongly) measured quantities ever change state?

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Graduate Entagled Electrons - measuring both x and y spin

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