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Graduate Limits and/or Properties of Entanglemen

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Graduate Do QED corrections strengthen or weaken hydrogen's binding energy?

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Graduate How does the quantum vacuum appear to different inertial observers?

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Graduate How Do Spin-0 and Spin-1 Propagators Differ in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Infinite Well and Boundary Conditions

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Undergrad Energy level transition questions

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Graduate Hardy's Paradox - Which Way Information

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Graduate Propagators for time-dependent Hamiltonians

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Graduate Questioning Bell's Assumption on All Local Hidden Variable Theories

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Undergrad An intuitive meaning to the phase constant k?

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Graduate PBR Paper, Calculation of Outcome Probabilities

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Graduate Is the Electromagnetic Field Omnipresent Throughout the Universe?

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Graduate Decoherence: What is a Robust Correlation

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Graduate Can Alice and Bob play FTL ping pong?

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Graduate Stuekelberg interpretetion of anti-particles

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Graduate Quantum Measurement: Collapse, Reduction, Decoherence, Weak & Strong Projection

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Graduate Solutions to Time-dependent Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Why is Theory of Quantum Gravity needed

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Graduate What is the entropy of the quantum state vacuum in inflationary theory

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Graduate Time evolution operator versus propagate

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Graduate Reproducibility of measurements in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Strong interaction and unified field theory

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Graduate Understanding the Connection between Dirac Four Spinor and Spin Up

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Graduate Subtraction point not physical mass

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Graduate Is v discrete in E=hv equation?

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Graduate Energy conservation in a vacuum bubble

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Graduate What is meant by two vectors transforming in the same way under SU(2)?

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Graduate Spin-1 rep of su(2) vs. vector transformations

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Graduate Selection of an interval affects the energy eigenstates - impossible

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Graduate Is Schrodinger's Cat Truly Both Alive and Dead Until Observed?

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Graduate Transitions on resonance with a cavity.

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Graduate Trying to make the connection with QM as a 1 parameter QFT

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Graduate Deriving the pauli matrices from general su(2) matrix

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Graduate Wave function of bonding orbital of Hydrogen molecule

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Graduate Quantum behavior in a classical system?

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Graduate Quantization of Energy in Quantum Mechanics - Real Examples?

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Graduate How does quantum tunneling enable nuclear fusion in the Sun?

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Graduate How can I learn about Bose-Einstein condensate's experimental aspects?

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Graduate Scattering matrix and correlation functions

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Graduate Mandl & Shaw QFT: Commutation Rules on Page 263

  • Vic Sandler
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Graduate Understanding Virtual Particles: Excitations of Quantum Fields

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Graduate Light as a wave, which wave is the correct wave?

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Graduate What Does the Diffused State of Electrons Around Nuclei Mean?

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Graduate Momentum of electromagnetic field

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Graduate Good Quantum Optics Books - Recommendations Needed

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Graduate Quntum tunneling in financial markets?

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Graduate Understanding Spin States of Particles with Spin-1 and Spin-1/2

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Graduate Boson statistics and the uncertainty principle

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Graduate Why QM Needs Time-Reversibility & Unitarity Explained

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Graduate Do photons of different energy interfere with each other?

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Graduate Can uncertainity principle be tweaked

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Graduate Time Dependent Perturbation Theory - Klein Gordon Equation

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Graduate Occupation Numbers Of Phonons/Photons

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Graduate How negative energy solution has positive energy in lab?

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Graduate Weinberg discussion on induced representations in his QFT Vol.1 Ch. 2

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Graduate Uncertainty of an electron in a core

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Graduate Understanding the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate The Wave-Like Nature of Electrons: Electric & Magnetic Fields

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Graduate QFT: Mandl & Shaw, Page 297 - An Extra Minus Sign

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Graduate Subatomic Particles From Nothing?

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Graduate Mechanism behind photon absorption and photon emission

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Graduate Why Do Only Certain Equal Time Contractions in Quantum Field Theory Not Vanish?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Observables

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Graduate Why are entangled states generic?

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Graduate Wave function is a combination of eigenfunction?

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Graduate What state does a particle take on when we measure its momentum?

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Graduate Troubleshooting Mandl & Shaw QFT: Deriving eqn (9.94) on pg 192 of 2nd edition

  • Vic Sandler
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Monte Carlo Methods: Clearing up Doubts on Their Use

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Graduate Analyzing high temperatures using the M-B distribution and

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Graduate Conservation of momentum of single photon passing a slit

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Graduate DCQE Question on Purpose of Glan Thompson Prisms

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Graduate Can someone prove the uncertainty principle for me

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Graduate Reflectionless Potential Eigentates

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Graduate The variation of a scalar field (from Ryder's QFT book)

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Graduate We know that superposition principle is valid in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Refraction and its connection quantum gravity

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Graduate Is Conservation of Momentum Overlooked in Bells Inequality Violations

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Graduate Is Quantum World weird because we can 'see' higher dimensions?

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Graduate Is there an error in the Feynman rules for QFT in the Mandl & Shaw book?

  • Vic Sandler
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Graduate How Does Total Spin Quantum Number Affect Symmetry in a Two-Fermion System?

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Graduate Seeking a non-technical book on the weirdness of QM

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Graduate Preferred basis in Relational Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate What's fundamental for quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Lamb and The Photoelectric Effect Without Photons

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Graduate Information loss in polarization.

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Graduate Bells' Inequality Spin Violations

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Graduate What is meant by spin actually?

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Graduate Where are charge and spin in Schrodinger's equation?

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Graduate Understanding the Relationship Between H^DaggerH and Dual Spaces

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Graduate Is H^DaggerH invariant under rotations and translations?

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Graduate Solving Hartree Fock Iteration for Closed Shell Atoms with GTO Basis

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Graduate Do quantum fields vanish at infinity?

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Graduate I don't see what's weird about the double slit experiment

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Graduate How can I find the S_{x} operator using spin base transformation?

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Graduate Hamiltonian matrix and eigenvalues

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Graduate What Are the Selection Rules for the Hydrogen Atom in LS Coupling?

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Graduate Why is this invariant under U(1) X SU(2) ?

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Graduate The end all be all of the planck scale

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Graduate Do Bell and PBR together point toward nonlocal reality?

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Graduate Higgs potential and fluctuations about the vacuum

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