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

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Graduate Finding probability of one state in another

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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 Are Artificial Magnetic Monopoles Redefining 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 Quick question about Kronecker delta function

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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

  • Charles Wilson
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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 Statistical Operator: Explaining Temperature in Physics

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Graduate Quasi-historical question about black body radiation

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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 Do We Need Fields as Annihilation & 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 A question about optical theorem

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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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Undergrad Photocurrent and frequency of incident light

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Graduate Is Squaring the Momentum Operator the Same as Applying it Twice?

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Graduate Transforming Representations of SO(3) to Act on Vectors?

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Graduate What are raising & lowering operators

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Graduate Matrix exponentiation using gsl library (Computational Quantum Mechanics)

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Graduate Expectation value at ground state

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Graduate Why doesn't one-photon-irreducible function have any pole at q^2=0?

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Graduate What is the minimum observer energy?

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Undergrad Question about magnetic field generation by stream of electron

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Graduate Stability of atoms in QM / QED

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Graduate Time independant perturbation problem

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Graduate Molecular material ground state

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