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Graduate Is H† a dual vector space, or does it only exist paired with H?

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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 are H†H and (H†H)² invariant under U(1) × 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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Graduate Can quantum mechanics predict the likelihood of chemical reactions in mixtures?

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Graduate Schrödinger cat´s from Rovelli Relational Quantum Mechanics viewpoint

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Graduate Wave-particle duality in the Standard Model

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Undergrad Particle-Wave Duality of Elementary Particles

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Graduate Quantum Communication, ion traps of thermoluminescent materials

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Graduate Can small changes in fundamental constants affect the properties of water?

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Graduate Is Planck Time and Length the Smallest Possible Units of Measurement?

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Graduate One-particle system with phase transition?

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Graduate What Is a Quantum Jump and How Does It Work?

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Graduate Are point particles and infinite universe linked conceptually?

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Graduate May decoherence be reversible?

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Graduate Does observer expectation influence the double slit experiment?

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Graduate Relationship between vertex function and current

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Graduate Negative kinetic energy in Bose Hubbard mode?

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Undergrad Why does light slow down in glass if photons must travel at c?

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Graduate Functional or regular (partial) taylor series in Field theory

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Graduate Blackbody radiation and Planck constant questions

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Graduate Why do we call the psi function the wave' function

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Graduate What does position entangled mean?

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Graduate Radiation in photoelectric effect.

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Graduate Local Conservation Of Charge And Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Finding the potential V(x) from an energy spectrum En∝n^3/2

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Graduate Why can QFT operators act on Fock space if the wavefunction is a point in it?

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Graduate Understanding wave particle duality

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Graduate Spin entanglement and which-slit detection in double slit experiment

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Graduate Why do objects always move to a state of lower potential energy?

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Graduate What do waves represent in QM?

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Graduate How Does the Pauli-Lujanski Tensor Relate to Gauge Invariance?

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Graduate Have the planck scales been proven to be true?

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Graduate How Does Photon Spin Relate to Quantum Mechanics and Bell's Inequalities?

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High School Heisenberg uncertainty for noob

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Graduate What is the role of zeta in atomic shells and its connection to quantum physics?

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Graduate Does space quantise at the Planck length?

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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat and looking in the box.

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Graduate Time until spontaneous emission in a QHO

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Graduate Does quantum field fills every single piece of the universe?

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Graduate Incomplete collapse of wavefunction

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Graduate Why should the quantum number m be less than equal to l.

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Graduate Physical quantities versus wave function?

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Graduate Why are dynamical variables with the same algebraic structure identified?

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Graduate Bosons: What Do They Do and How Do They Act?

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Graduate Do all masses show wave-particle duality near light speed?

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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: Double & Single Slit Experiments

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Graduate I am very intrigued by the theory of quantum physics

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Graduate Is Quantum Brownian Motion Linked to Virtual Particle Frequencies?

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Graduate How does quantum computing work?

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Graduate Why is (1/2,1/2) the vector representation?

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Graduate Error in perturbation series question

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Graduate Density and massive particles with 0 size

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Graduate Why is there a small variation in the spectrum of the same element?

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Graduate Where is a Photon? Understanding Light and Momentum

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Undergrad Ionization Energy QNS - Get Help Now!

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Graduate What is the frequency spectrum for a single photon?

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Graduate The meaning of double slit experiment

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Graduate QM: Clarifying Pauli Exclusion Principle, State of System

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Graduate Condition for completeness of eigen vectors of an operator

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Graduate Why do we need complex numbers while normalizing the wave function?

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Graduate Are There Only 4 Bell States According to Wikipedia's Definition?

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Graduate Action a distance, collapse and relativity

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Graduate A little puzzled about superluminality

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Graduate Entanglement between particles that did not coexist (at the same time)

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Graduate Gravity as a pushing (i.e., not pulling) force?

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Graduate Questions about fundamental concepts

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Graduate Reconciling quarks and the uncertainty principle

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Graduate Difference between QED and QCD vacuum

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Graduate QFT newbie-creation of particle and anti-particle

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Graduate Simple quantum entanglement qustion

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Graduate Why do hidden variables imply linear correlation in Bell's theorem?

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Graduate Why are interacting states necessarily entangled?

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Graduate Why Does E/w Equal 2*L for Photons and Electrons?

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Undergrad Can we find Eigenvalues for simultaneous equation?

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Graduate Correlation function of damped harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Magnetic Resonant Imaging Mechanics

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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics 100 year anniversary

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Graduate What does the word action mean in quantum physics?

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Graduate Is the Reduced Spin State of an Entangled Particle an Improper Mixture?

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Graduate Multiplication between vector and vector operator

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Graduate Need QFT Book or Online Course?

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Graduate A quantum particle which is almost at rest but whose position is rando

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Graduate Unitary spacetime translation operator

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Graduate Is tunnelling from nothing a transition?

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Graduate Field Emission from Metals: What is the Truth?

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Graduate Nature of the force between 2 protons when sharing an electron.

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Undergrad What happens to the energy of an electron after it tunnels through a barrier?

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Graduate Do the units of a wave function vary or are they joules?

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Graduate Are all divergences in quantum field theory logarithmic?

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Graduate Does a single boost change the spin orientation?

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