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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 Are raising and lowering operators factors of the Hamiltonian?

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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 Does a beam of electrons in vacuum at near light speed generate a magnetic field?

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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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Graduate Parametrization of uniformly distributed n dimensional states

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Graduate Are Bose Eistein Condensates Classical Objects

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Graduate What Misconceptions Exist in What The Bleep Do We Know?

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Graduate Collection of foundational papers?

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Undergrad The strength of electromagnetism in an atom?

  • 42Physics
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Graduate Time independant perturbation - Difficulty understanding derivation

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Graduate Why does gravity become incompatible with quantum mechanics at small scales?

  • Cody Richeson
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Graduate Probability of finding electron.

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Graduate Spin singlets and the Bell states

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Graduate Finite Hilbert Space v.s Infinite Hilbert Space in Perturbation Theory

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Graduate Initial wave function for an electron in a magnetic field

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Graduate Why do virtual particles separate and recombine?

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Graduate Does photon exist without velocity c ?

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Graduate HUP and good quantum numbers that commute

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Undergrad Do electrons need specific energies to excite electrons

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Graduate How can the expression for orthonormal states be simplified?

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Graduate Accurate equations vs. accurate models in QM

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Graduate Dr. Plato A Lucien Hardy called and

  • Charles Wilson
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Graduate How can a ground state of free particles have entanglement?

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Graduate Tattoo featuring quantum physics

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Graduate Does metronome synchronization have anything/nothing to do with QM/QE?

  • San K
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Graduate What is the correlation between photon events in space and time?

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Graduate How close can we photograph individual atoms with light?

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Graduate How do we know that wave f. is the eigenfunction of an operator H?

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Graduate Is a static EM field made of photons? Do they move at c?

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High School Why are Newton's rings circular in shape?

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Graduate Mass of a permanent magnet levitating a superconductor?

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Graduate Is the wave function, an unreal tool, to partially model a real interaction?

  • San K
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Graduate Peskin Schroeder page 30 eq 2.54

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Graduate Problem understanding Wigner's classification

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Graduate Other ways to create an interference pattern?

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Graduate Total momentum operator in peskin/schroeder

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Graduate Difficulties in understanding Brownian motion.?

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Graduate An eigenstates, eigenvectors and eigenvalues question

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Graduate Particle in magnetic field, classical and quantum view

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Graduate PBR Theorem: Abandon Quest for Ontic Models of QM?

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Graduate Path Integrals Harmonic Oscillator

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Graduate What is the energy-time uncertainty relationship in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Feynman rules from Yang-Mills lagrangian

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Graduate Proper form of schrodinger's equation?

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Graduate The use of different bases in QFT

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Graduate Spin-Orbit Coupling: A Bohr-Orbital Model?

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Graduate Equivalence of differential operator terms in action

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Graduate Sakurai page 196: Orbital angular momentum as rotation generator

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Graduate Bra-ket notation and qubit issue.

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Graduate Does quantization mean there are only so many colors?

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Graduate Why does light partially reflect off a single glass surface in QED?

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Graduate Electron LOSING energy to the quantum vacuum?

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Graduate Gauge transformation of Yang-Mills field strength

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Graduate From statistical to ontological: uncertainty principle

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Graduate Why is the electron bound to the hydrogen atom in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Argument for quantum indeterminism

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Graduate Why only the negative energy particle falls into black holes in Hawking radiation

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Graduate Is the wigner D function a representation of SO(3)?

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Graduate Proof for commutator $[\hat{H},\hat{a}] = - \hbar \omega \hat{a}

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Graduate Does time-dependent linear polarization angle equal circular polarization?

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Graduate Where did they come from and when?

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Graduate Why do quantum mechanics postulates seem ad-hoc compared to special relativity?

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Undergrad Determining the Weight of a simple string

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Graduate Quantum internet running at Los Alamos National Labs

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate How to derive or verify Hartree product?

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Graduate Sakurai page 181: Time evolution of ensembles

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Graduate Electrons viewed in real time for the first time ever

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Graduate Harmonic solutions as Riemannian oscillators ?

  • glengarry
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Graduate What is the maximum energy density of EM radiation and its effects?

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Graduate Fock space and the Brillouin condition

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Graduate For a electron orbiting around the nucleus, why must it be in phase?

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Graduate Can a Photon be thought of as a bit?

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Graduate Uncertainty principle regarding a narrow optical fibre?

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Graduate What is the meaning of σ and π bonds in molecules quantum mechanically?

  • hokhani
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Graduate Can we calculate the past if we know the present state of all particles?

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Graduate How can an asymptotic series give accurate results as in QED?

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Graduate Virtual particales and black holes.

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Graduate Quantum objects and the law of identity over time

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Graduate Why Does Planck Time Exist?

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Graduate Vacuum expectation value and lorenz (trans) invariance

  • center o bass
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Graduate Forming Hydrogen wave functions with real spherical harmonics

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Graduate Why is the total Hilbert space the tensor product of subsystem spaces?

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Graduate Self-adjointness of H, particular example

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Graduate What Challenges Arise in QM/QFT with Non-Separable Hilbert Spaces?

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Graduate Phase shift between R_01 and R_02 in Kim's delayed choice eraser

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Graduate How photonless communication differs from entanglement

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Graduate Quantum physics explanation problem

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Graduate Proof of second quantization operators

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Graduate The uncertainty principle and the measurement postulate

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Undergrad Is Zero Point Energy Truly Unattainable?

  • JayJohn85
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Graduate Debye model in Statistical Physics

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