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Graduate Can we experimentally win simple quantum pseudo-telepathy games yet?

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Graduate What Would Happen If We Set Up the Double Slit Experiment Differently?

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Graduate Visualising Potential Wells in Two Body Systems

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Graduate Can a region of space-time be created with no ER?

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Graduate Analytic Solutions to Schroedinger Equation

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Graduate Confusion about the electron sub shells.

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Graduate What is limit to electrone-hole gas density?

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Graduate Why do particles have non-zero position amplitude across all space?

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Graduate Why Must J_z Eigenvalues Be Integer-Spaced for Fixed J²?

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Graduate Why do fields vanish at infinite time during canonical transformations?

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Graduate Dosen't energy eigenvalue depend on x?

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Graduate How are correlations in entangled photon pairs detected experimentally?

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Graduate What is the intrinsic parity of anti-particles?

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Graduate How Does Equation 4.144 Follow from 4.143 in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate What qualifies as an observer in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Why does d/dt transform to a partial derivative in the integral?

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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat vs. The Principle of Explosion

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Graduate Violation of thermodynamics law

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Graduate Can Amplitudes Be Assigned Between Subspaces in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Derivation of rayleigh jeans law

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Graduate Is Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics a good way to learn?

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Graduate Physicist disentangles 'Schrodinger's cat' debate

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Graduate Do particles have discrete energy levels?

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Graduate How Can We Represent Electron Wave Length in an Equation?

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Graduate What is Avoided crossing or Level repulsion

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Graduate Can you ever have an odd number of entangled particles?

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Graduate What is the relationship between degeneracy factor and photon polarization?

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Graduate Current standing of qubit research

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Undergrad Normalisation and normalising wavefunctions

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Graduate Many-Body Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Eigenstate-to-eigenstate evolution with no intermediate superposition?

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Graduate Experiments directed towards discreteness/continuity

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Graduate Following collapse of the waveform

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Graduate Quantum entanglement and computing

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Graduate How certain do we have to get about a particle's position ?

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Graduate Why Does Negative Current Occur in LEDs at Low Voltage?

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Undergrad Representation of numbers in quantum bits

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Graduate Need to discuss about quantum concepts

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Undergrad Why is there a peak in the visible range?

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Graduate How to go from Heisenberg operators to Schrödinger operators

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Undergrad Can Excess Photon Energy Cause an Electron to Jump Energy Levels?

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Graduate What is the concept of multiple orthogonal time dimensions?

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Graduate Plasma and light atom collision.

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Graduate Non-relativistic limit of QFT momentum and field derivatives

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Graduate What determines an amplitude of a wave particle?

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Graduate Unitary in quantum field theory

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Graduate What happens to the freq of a photon after encountering double slit?

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Graduate Controlled delayed quantum erasure?

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Graduate What are the Different Formulations of Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad Why introduce matrix in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Is Superposition the Explanation for Bell Inequality Violations ?

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Graduate Can someone explain the diffraction of electrons through a single hole?

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Graduate Scalar gravity -Feynman lectures on gravitation

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Graduate Initial conditions in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Practical Scenarios

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Graduate Why do N qubits have 2^N states instead of 2N states?

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Undergrad Difference ionic and covalent bonds

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Graduate Calculating the amplitude that a particle is spin up

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Graduate Variational Derivation of Schrodinger Equation

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Undergrad Is energy quantized?

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Graduate Given a Hamiltonian how do you pick the most convenient Hilbert space?

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Graduate Noether current for exchange symmetry

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Graduate Schrodinger Equation for Constrained Particle

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Graduate Can a quantum system continuously evolve between eigenstates of the same observable?

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Graduate How does quantum pseudo-telepathy work, as a quantum circuit?

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Graduate Understanding Plancks Quanta for Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Can constant photon exchange in orbits produce infinite energy?

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Graduate Introductory literature, quantum mechanics

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Graduate What do the Ms in ml and ms quantum numbers stand for?

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Graduate Understanding Entangled Particles: Is it Possible?

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Graduate Green's function of the Klein-Gordon operator

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Graduate Planck's Unit and universal constants

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Graduate NYT review of How the hippies saved physics

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Graduate Are Thermal States Always Mixed States?

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Graduate What are some examples of imperfect entanglement in spin 1/2 systems?

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Graduate Solving QM-like Problem (Shankar, Coupled Mass)

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Graduate Why does the tensor product in QM produce unentangled states?

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Graduate Velocity of alpha particle within nucleus

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Graduate How can I present my new atomic model to the scientific community?

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Graduate Pasting polarized lenses to a PBS ?

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Graduate Black body radiation and maximum spectral density

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Graduate Why Is a Given State an Eigenstate of Field Operators in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Increasing intensity causes a contradiction in classical physics?

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Graduate How Does Δml=0 and Δl=±1 Apply in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Linear to Circular Polarisation Questions

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Graduate Is there really such a thing as a definite state?

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Graduate Tensor techniques in $3\otimes\bar 3$ representation of su(3)

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Graduate What is the relationship between frequency and wave function?

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Graduate Quantum Computing: How Fast Could It Go?

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Graduate Why does the Klein-Gordon propagator have a negative i in the exponential?

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Graduate Three-Particle Quantum Nonlocality under Strict Locality Conditions

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Undergrad Compton vs photoelectric effect.

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Graduate Which QM topics matter most for electron-phonon coupling in solids?

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Graduate Hidden variables - Bell - The Law of Malus?

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Graduate Entanglement Between Photons that have Never Coexisted

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Graduate How Do Infinite and Finite Light Sources Produce Different Wavefront Shapes?

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Graduate How Do Entangled Particles Communicate Faster Than Light?

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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty principle and wavelength of light

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Graduate Computing Wigner D-Matrices: Contradiction Found

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Graduate Quantum entanglement as a higher dimension arc?

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