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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?
- jshrager
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Graduate Time-energy uncertainty (question after reading FAQ)
- mikeph
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Graduate Does Multiple Compton Scattering Occur in Laser-Electron Interactions?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Defining Dimensions
- Chemist@
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Graduate Interesting View Of Quantum Mechanics and The Measurement Problem
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Graduate Why creation and annihilation operators only work for harmonic oscillator potential
- LagrangeEuler
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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 ?
- big_bounce
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Graduate Understanding Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Doublw slit experoment and fourier transform
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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator and Total Energy
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Graduate The relation between atoms' kinetic energy and the energy levels
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Graduate Bob makes a local gauge trans., can Alice undo with some fields?
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Graduate LS coupling and calculating the total angular momentum
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Graduate Zero point energy in thermal noise spectrum?
- jasonRF
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Graduate Callen-Welton power absorption formula and Rabi oscillations
- Jano L.
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Graduate Why does the integral of the Yukawa potential converge for q/alpha >= 1?
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Graduate Easy question on conformal transformations
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Graduate Time evolution of operators as projectors - confusion
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Undergrad Is the Electromagnetic Spectrum non-continuous?
- Eriance
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Undergrad Understanding Optical Modes Without the Jargon
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Graduate Why can't we define a time related operator?
- fluidistic
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Graduate Paul Dirac's 1975 quantum mechanics lectures found in New Zealand
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Graduate Math suggestions for learning QM
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Graduate Predicting detector results in four quantum eraser experiments
- ldunscombe
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Graduate Unified Field Theory - Consciousness
- StevenGuy
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Undergrad Perturbation Theory for a Hamiltonian
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Graduate About the Lie algebra of our Lorentz group
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Graduate The addition of the wave functions for a system
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Graduate Can consciousness be the missing link in unified field theory?
- StevenGuy
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Graduate Space as not empty, non-locality, conceptual implications?
- Curious45
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Graduate Spin-1/2 Particle in Superposition B Field: Probability and Interactions
- port31
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Graduate Full Rundown of Light as a Quantum
- 42Physics
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High School Why do all particles have a wavelength?
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Graduate Normalization of SU(N) Group Generators
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Graduate Why isn't there equal matter and antimatter in the universe?
- GuRuPhysicsGuy
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Undergrad Derving compton effect formula - SIMPLY
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Graduate Eigenvalues of the position operator
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Graduate Quantum mechanical derivation of Einstein's equations
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Graduate Curved Dirac equation, Spin connection
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Graduate What Are We Really Measuring in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Quick Matrix Element Question using Hermitian Operator
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Graduate Dirac equation continuity issue
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Graduate Does the ground state wave function in QM problems have any zeros?
- LagrangeEuler
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Graduate Quantum Temperature Relations?
- evanlee
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Graduate It would take a computer bigger than the universe to solve 11 electron
- maverick_starstrider
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Graduate Why do px and py orbitals have different shapes than p±1 eigenfunctions?
- RedCliff
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Graduate Wave Function Units: |ψ(x,t)| - Dimensionless?
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Graduate If general relativity is wrong, does the quantum gravity problem still exist?
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What are V-gauge and L-gauge?
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Graduate Intuition for symmetry currents
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Graduate What is particle spin and how is it measured?
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Graduate Knowledge and understanding of QM
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Graduate Some weird integration by parts to derive momentum operator
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Graduate Franck-Hertz experiment: mercury energy levels and orbital configurations
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Graduate Can Two Electrons in an Atom Share the Same Quantum Numbers?
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Graduate Does the adjoint of an outer product equal to itself?
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Graduate Measurements in Quantum mechanics
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Graduate Preferred direction about hydrogen atom
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Graduate Changing the Hamiltonian to a new frame of reference
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Graduate What are the recommended books for learning the basics of quantum mechanics?
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Graduate What are function gates and how do they relate to matrix representation?
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Graduate Math prerequisites for learning quantum mechanics in biochemistry
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Graduate Dirac Equation in (-,++++) Notation
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Graduate Is predicting the future with Quantum Erasure possible?
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Graduate Quantum Fluctuations: Virtual Photon in Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate A question regarding the Power series method of solving the QHO
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Graduate How Are General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Connected?
- San K
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Graduate Why must electron waves be standing waves in Bohr's circular orbit?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics, Potential Step
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Graduate Phase of photon from excited atom
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Graduate The photon, time and entropy
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Graduate Physical differences between integer and fractional spin values
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Graduate Casimir effect, where is the energy loss?
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Graduate Is matrix mechanics better suited for relativity than wave mechanics?
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Graduate SU(2) symmetry of the ammonia molecule?
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Graduate Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem and QED
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Graduate Are grand unified theories the solution to the problem of multiple fields?
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Graduate Is quantum entanglement - Continuous?
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Graduate Is the Displacement Operator Tψ(x)=ψ(x+a) Hermitian?
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Undergrad Why does a classical orbiting electron emit radiation?
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Graduate Is the electron field a real thing?
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Graduate Contracting operators in Wick diagrams
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Graduate Arguments in favour of the fair sampling assumption
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Graduate Spin,orbital and total angular momentum
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Graduate String tension for quark anti-quark binding
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Graduate Deriving Dirac Hamiltonian with (+,---) Metric Signature
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Undergrad Recommended math for 1st class in quantum
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Graduate Momentum and wave vector representation
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Graduate Is my understanding of EM field quantization correct?
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Undergrad Do photons have mass if they carry momentum?
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Graduate Multiple Dimensions in Quantum Theories
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Graduate What do violations of Bell's inequalities tell us about nature?
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Graduate What exactly is a quantum field
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Graduate Can You Explain the One-electron Universe ?
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Graduate What Happens to Boson Distribution in Long-Lived Non-Equilibrium States?
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Graduate When does quantum gravity become important?
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