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Graduate Is the Spin Orbit Hamiltonian really Hermitian?

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Graduate Why quantum effects disappear at the classical level

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Graduate Is destruction of dbl-slit interference pattern wavefunction collapse?

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Graduate Replacing an operator of an angular momentum for a constant.

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Undergrad Is the Non-relativistic Schrodinger Equation the right one?

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Graduate Hydrogen Atoms under Magnification (paper)

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Graduate Is the Dirac equation a field equation or a wave function equation?

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Graduate The cause of particle going through one slit of the other

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Graduate Pauli spin matrices and hbar/2

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Undergrad How can light be both a wave and discrete packets of energy?

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Graduate Callan-Symanzik equation and the running coupling.

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Undergrad Undergraduate-level explanation of Dirac Equation?

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Graduate Why Does the Kraus Map Need to be Completely Positive?

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Graduate Why is probability of transition between states found with squared overlap?

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Graduate Why don't we perceive systems during decoherence?

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Graduate The Time Symmetry Debate in Quantum Theory

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Graduate What is the QED LSZ-reduction formula?

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Graduate Where can I find resources to learn the math behind quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Are quantum mechanical effects faster than speed of light?

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Graduate QED running coupling definition.

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Graduate Artificial magnetic monopoles and Maxwell's equations

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Graduate Does mass depend on energy scale?

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Graduate What are some recommended free Quantum Optics PDFs for learning and reference?

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Graduate Ward identity from Ward-Takahashi identity?

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Graduate Quantum eraser and the experimenter's retina?

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Graduate What are the properties and applications of ferromagnetic thin films?

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Graduate Why Lagrangian is Used in Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Entanglement Hypothesis by de Broglie in 1935

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Graduate General Gauge Invariance Problem

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Graduate Wave Function Collapse and Entropy

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Graduate Time Evolution of Measurables(Hamiltonian)

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Graduate Looking for mentor to answer QFT questions during 8-week REU

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Graduate Hamiltonian of linear harmonic oscilator

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Graduate Do you have any interest in Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Orthonormality of cosine eigenfunctions in the infinite square well

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Graduate Is it possible to create a higher energy photon from two lower ones?

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Graduate Bell Proof Against Hidden Variables in EPR

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Graduate Real Time Entanglement from the Zeilinger Group

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Graduate Definition of a wavefunction as a function of position.

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Graduate Is coherence a single photon phenomenon?

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Graduate Probability Greater than 1 in λφ^4 Theory

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Graduate Could packet round-trip times be an analog to qubits?

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Graduate I need all the information about theHeisenberg's uncertainty principle

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Graduate Can Individual Gluons Be Extracted from a Nucleus?

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Graduate What is the difference between quantum mechanics and QFT?

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Graduate Photon emission by an excited hydrogen atom

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Graduate Classical Limit formula for differential cross section for Hard Sphere

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Graduate Common eigenvalues for two states or two bases of same state?

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Undergrad Why does vacuum have properties?

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Graduate Is E Always Greater Than V(x) in the Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation?

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Graduate (Peskin and Schroeder) Numerator of vertex correction

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Graduate Why does the density matrix contain temperature in one form but not the other?

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Graduate How did 19th century physicists approach the ultraviolet catastrophe?

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Graduate Shouldn't the mass of an electron be uncertain?

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Graduate Unitarity angular momentum operators

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Graduate Basic question on quantum mechanics and choice

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Graduate Cassimir's Dark Energy Plate Experiment

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Graduate Can UV photons spontaneously convert into IR photons, and vice versa?

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Graduate How meaurements increase entropy?

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Graduate Degenerate perturbation theory degeneracy not lifted by perturbation

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Graduate Http:www.univie.ac.at/qfp/publications3/pdffiles/1999-10.pdf real?

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Graduate So what exactly is entanglement?

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Graduate Non-locality and the Bekenstein bound?

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Graduate Neutron Spin Time Evolution in Interferometer

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Graduate Can Entropy Decrease After a Projective Measurement?

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Graduate Quantum Behavior As Extreme Classical Behavior

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Graduate If decoherence matters in 2 different observables

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Graduate Field transformations in Weinberg's QToF

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Graduate Spectrum of the Hamiltonian in QFT

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Graduate Vacuum expectation values of combinations of ##a^\dagger## and ##a##

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Graduate Wick theorem for particle-antiparticle annihilation

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Graduate Four Handed Entanglement - With a Catch

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Graduate Why express fields as annihilation and creation operators

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Undergrad Is it possible to slow down/stop the light?

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Graduate How Does Quantum Entanglement Affect Electron Spin Measurements?

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Graduate Field Theory Partition Function

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Graduate How does the Klein-Gordon Lagrangian relate to the equations of motion?

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Graduate How to solve for allowed energies with the WKB approximation?

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Graduate Optical theorem with infinite scattering potential

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Graduate A modified double slit screen scenario- what would happen?

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Graduate The Quasi Classical Approximation(Landau Lifshitz)

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Graduate Hankel Functions: Solutions to Cylindrical Wave Equation

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Graduate Relation between mass and wave function

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Graduate A single atom in a cold, closed, vacuum system.

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Graduate How Do We Correctly Calculate the Distribution of Bosons Among Energy Levels?

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Graduate Double Harmonic Approximation IR intensties

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Graduate Trying to wrap my brain around entanglement-superposition

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Graduate Why does the phase-space contour integral equal action?

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Graduate Field and conjugate independent?

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Graduate Does gravity break down in the big bang?

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Graduate Acceleration operator and the electron in a hydrogen atom

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Graduate Wavepacket incident on a potential step

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Graduate Existence of Pure Quantum States

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Graduate Representation of linear operator using series ?

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Graduate Number of possible wavefunctions only countably infinite?

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Graduate Is dBB reproducing quantum results ?

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Graduate Pulling out partial derivatives?

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Graduate Uncertainty Relation between Lx and Ly

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Graduate Can Singlets be Prepared with a Preferred Direction?

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Graduate Quantum teleportation and the density matrix

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