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Graduate What is the quantum mechanics descriptions for a plasma radiation

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Graduate Quantum entanglement (information transmitted )

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Graduate Photon interacting with 1D-boundary

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Graduate Selection rules for atomic transitions

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Graduate Is the Transmission Probability of a Vertically Polarized Photon Really 1.0?

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High School How does visible light carry energy through reflection?

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Graduate Solutions of the schrödinger eq. for a potential step

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Graduate Schrodinger equation subjected to general potential

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Graduate Why is the concept of a one dimensional box used?

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Graduate Is There a Metric Tensor in Hilbert Space That Transforms Vectors to Duals?

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Graduate Changing variables in the Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Question about noether's theorem

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Graduate Dark state & schrödinger equation

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Graduate What happens when we measure spin of a fermion?

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Graduate How does a collider know both the energy and position of the particle?

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Graduate Are macroscopic objects self-collapsing ?

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High School Why Do Electrons Closer to the Nucleus Have Lower Energy?

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Graduate Commutator with Tensor Notation

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Graduate Orbital angular momentum and powers of k

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Graduate Quantum amplitudes versus probability

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Graduate Expectation values for Hydrogen

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Graduate Quantum eraser experiment - another thought experiment

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Graduate Book or notes for 'Quantum Field Theory II' by Francois David (PSI)

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Graduate Problems with photoelectric effect lab

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Graduate Why is the Matrix Exponential Related to the Hamiltonian in QM?

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Graduate QM operator and double slit experiment doubt basics

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Graduate General Entanglement and Measurement

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Graduate Amplitude's time dependence in Heisenberg representation

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Graduate Energies and numbers of bound states in finite potential well

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Graduate Valid reason to reject the Bohr model?

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Undergrad History of Planck's equation(s)

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Graduate Is There Room for Interpretation in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Quantum Scale, Statistical Physics

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Graduate Operators and the position representation

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Graduate Does photon lose its momentum?

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Graduate Can one speak of the wave function of a object measured?

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Undergrad Explanation behind Moseley's Law?

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Graduate Interference in Quantum Mechanics (Basic)

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Graduate Plotting a wavefunction for a finite potential well doesn't work out

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Graduate Solving the Hydrogen Molecule computationally

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Graduate Energy levels for a 3D cubical box

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High School Electron is it a particle or wave ?

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Graduate What is the use of WKB after Schrodinger equation is established?

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Graduate Dirac eq gamma matrices question

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Graduate Is every state an eigenstate of an observable?

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Graduate Schrodinger equation for close and opens system

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Really Simple to Understand for Beginners?

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Graduate Entanglement at cosmic distances possible?

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Graduate How can bosons made of fermions occupy the same quantum state?

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Undergrad Stimulated Emission: Understanding Its Changing Rate

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Graduate QM: Potential Energy & Particle Free Fall

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Graduate Problems with a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field

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Graduate Proof of vailidity of WKB approximation Please help

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High School How can a photon move something( light moves), if it doesn't have a ma

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Graduate Fourier transform of integration measure (Peskin and Schroeder)

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Graduate Splitting up of functional integral (Peskin and Schroeder)

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Graduate Understanding Virtual Particles: An Introduction to the Concept and Properties

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Graduate Double slit questions from an observation perspective

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Graduate Z-direction. Quantisation axis

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Graduate Decoherence And What happens in reality

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Graduate What causes faraday effect quantum mechanically?

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Graduate Calculating Electric Fields for H Atom Ionization with SFA

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Undergrad What exactly happens when an electron gains energy?

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Graduate Correspondence principle for a step potential

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Graduate Corralling Electrons: Wave-Particle Duality & Probability Waves

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Graduate Can SSB Be Visually Understood? Ideas for Intuitive Explanations

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Graduate Circular Interference Patterns in Multi-Slot Experiments

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Graduate Slater Determinant & Permanent

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Graduate Equilibrium bond lengths for excited molecules

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Graduate How do you quantumly entangle particles?

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Graduate What is the physical significance of having +/- a constant multiplying

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Graduate Sakurai page 27: What is this 'delta_1'?

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Graduate Commutativity of the Born Rule

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Graduate Trouble with Wick rotation in 1+1d abelian Higgs model

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Undergrad Energy Equvalant of different masses

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Graduate Understanding Electromagnetic Transitions: |ΔI|=1, ΔIz=0

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Graduate What is so 'counter-intuitive' about the double-slit experiment?

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Graduate Interaction tetween two waves soliton

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Graduate How was the Taylor expansion for SSB in superconductors done?

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Graduate Quantum Eraser Experiment: Fact or Fiction?

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Undergrad Hydrogen Atoms and Spectral Lines

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics saying we've already existed and will again?

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Graduate Finite Potential Well Solutions

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Graduate Can an Electron Be a Frame of Reference in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Is a wave function as complete as can be

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Graduate Transmission and reflection coefficients

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Graduate Why Does the Lone Electron in Silver Have Zero Orbital Angular Momentum?

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High School Uncertainity regarding measurement

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Graduate What's the source of EM radiation

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Graduate QHO Solutions: What is Imaginary Part?

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Graduate Shouldn't the operator be applied to both the wf anD its modulus?

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Graduate Time-energy uncertainty (question after reading FAQ)

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Graduate Does Multiple Compton Scattering Occur in Laser-Electron Interactions?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Defining Dimensions

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Graduate Interesting View Of Quantum Mechanics and The Measurement Problem

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Graduate Creation and annihilation operators

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Graduate How to understand current-density operator

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Graduate Why is the Symmetry Group of the 9j Symbol Isomorphic to S_3 x S_3 x S_2?

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Undergrad In photoelectric effect mass reduce or increase ?

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Graduate Understanding Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Field Theory

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