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Graduate Rydberg Blockade: Questions on Using for Single Photon Creation

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Graduate What is conserved in the various forms/types of entanglement?

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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser communication

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Undergrad Radiation Vectors: Wave Direction After Electron Energy Shift?

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Graduate Wave function collapse in curved spacetime

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Graduate Understand the idea of superposition

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Graduate How do experimenters know when photons are entangled?

  • James MC
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Graduate Are fermions truly antisymmetric in their wave function?

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Graduate Can we look upon entanglement as measurement?

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Graduate Proton Decay- What happens to the proton after too many decays ?

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Undergrad Lorentz,gallilean transformation

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Graduate Measuring Plank's constant with LED's

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Graduate Photons and charged particles and dark matter

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Graduate Orthogonal eigenvectors and Green functions

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Graduate New to quantum and have a few questions

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Graduate Feynman Lectures: The Random Walk Explained

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Graduate Simultaneously testing the Kochen-Specker and Bell theorems

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Graduate Is Entanglement Finite or Timeless in Varying Spacetime Curvature?

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Graduate Why is it usually the K-shell electron that is ejected?

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Graduate How do I decide that a particle is isolated?

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Graduate Problem with Bell's lambda - again

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Graduate Is Dark Energy Linked to Vacuum Energy in QFT?

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Graduate Space Translation: Sidney Coleman's Lectures Problem

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Graduate Eigenvector proof from Dirac's QM

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Graduate Introduction to the development of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate How to Derive the Number of Components of a Rank-2A Tensor in Four Dimensions?

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Graduate Cross-section for elastic scattering?

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Graduate Virtuality of a nearly on-shell photon

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Graduate Quantum entanglement and relativity of time

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Graduate Bell's inequality when efficiency < 1

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Graduate Non locality of quantum mechanics

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Graduate Do bras and inner products relate in a Rigged Hilbert Space?

  • lugita15
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Graduate Is the Field Operator in Quantum Field Theory an Observable or a Creation Tool?

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Graduate Physical significance of eigenvalues?

  • James MC
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Graduate Mossbauer Effect how does it work?

  • edpell
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Graduate Spin and intrinsic angular momentum

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Graduate Free action invariant under galliean boosts?

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Graduate Commutation relation of the creation/annihilation operators in a field

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Graduate Schrodinger equation molecules

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Graduate Can a particle's spin be in superposition?

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Graduate Observables and state measurement in Susskind's entanglement lecture

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Graduate Calculate the Clebsch-Gordon coefficient for the SP(3,R) by SU(3)

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Graduate Why do spin-1/2 states respond to rotations in 3D Euclidean space?

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Graduate Peskin/schroeder RG flow diagram

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Graduate Dirac's equation and anti-matter

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Graduate Sign error in Mandl & Shaw QFT equation 15.127 from Feynman rules

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Graduate Is quantum mechanics incompatible with determinism?

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Graduate Lagrangian explicitly preserves symmetries of a theory?

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Graduate The Pauli Exclusion Principle and Repulsive Forces in Atoms

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Graduate Braking radiation and electromagnetic self action

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Graduate Manipulating spin of entangled particles

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Graduate Would dbb cause an unequalness between the paths?

  • San K
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Graduate Is Gravity a Field of Virtual Particles or a Curvature of Space-Time?

  • physorguser
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Graduate Understand Physical Significance of Functions at Time 0

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Graduate Total momentum operator for free scalar field

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Graduate What does the quantum butterfly effect tell us?

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Graduate Is there any hope at all for Locality?

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Graduate Why the off-diagonal elements of electric dipole element are zero?

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Graduate Accelerating Atomic Decay Rate of Unstable Elements

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Graduate Molecular Hamiltonian: H-Nucleus and Electron Interactions for H2 Molecule

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Graduate Why some photons are absorbed while propagating through glass

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Graduate Does conscious observation or physical interaction cause wave function collapse?

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Graduate Does the Observer have anything to do with conscious choice

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Graduate Commutators; matrices? numbers? both?

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Graduate How Can Quantum Interference Control Stabilize a Frequency Comb's Carrier Phase?

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Graduate Does Cooling Radioactive Material Affect Quantum Condensate Radiation?

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Graduate Does quantization of action still apply in canonical quantization?

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Graduate Issues with Nick Herbert's proof of quantum non-locality

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Graduate How to get wavelength of the wave function?

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Graduate How to apply ladder operators?

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Graduate Can Tunneling Occur at 0 Kelvin with an Applied Bias?

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Undergrad Paul Krugman on Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Reason for wave-particle duality?

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Graduate Dirac delta potential scattering states why neither term diverges

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Graduate Can we rewrite Schrodinger equation using observable variable?

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Graduate Why does a moving fermion transfer more energy to another fermion?

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Graduate Proof of subadditivity of quantum entropy

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Undergrad Why does polarization work if EMR has perpendicular electric and magnetic fields?

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Graduate In RBW there are no probabilities per se.

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Graduate Beam Splitter Physics: |45>,-|45> State Output

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Graduate Can Laplace's demon work in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Effects: Proton vs Up Quark

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Graduate What is a current view on Nimtz (FTL) effect?

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High School Why isn't it possible to walk thru a wall?

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Graduate Are sine stationary states complete for all functions in an infinite well?

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Graduate Any loophole tactics to cheat locality with entanglement?

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Graduate Why does the shot effect alone produce no correlation in the Hanbury Brown Twiss effect?

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Graduate Simultaneous measurement of entanglement

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Graduate Solving the Mystery of Unitary Time Operator in QM

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Undergrad Can this explain the double-slit experiment by a classical way?

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Graduate Interpreting probability current notation and mathematical prerequisites

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Graduate Intuition behind probability amplitude calculations?

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Graduate Potential energy in the Dirac equation

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Graduate How Do Entangled Particles Behave in a Double Slit Experiment?

  • San K
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Graduate Why do we choose a quantization axis for angular momentum?

  • matematikuvol
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Graduate How does the Pauli exclusion principle work at the mechanical level?

  • susskind99
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Graduate Bose Einstein condensates and GR?

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Graduate Could bosons be classical waves passing through a quantum filter?

  • michael879
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Graduate Do electrons (in a shell) have to be necessarily entangled?

  • San K
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