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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 Why creation and annihilation operators only work for harmonic oscillator potential

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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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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?

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Graduate Callen-Welton power absorption formula and Rabi oscillations

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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?

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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?

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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

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Graduate Unified Field Theory - Consciousness

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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?

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Graduate Space as not empty, non-locality, conceptual implications?

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Graduate Spin-1/2 Particle in Superposition B Field: Probability and Interactions

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Graduate Full Rundown of Light as a Quantum

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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?

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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?

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Graduate Quantum Temperature Relations?

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Graduate It would take a computer bigger than the universe to solve 11 electron

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Graduate Why do px and py orbitals have different shapes than p±1 eigenfunctions?

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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?

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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?

  • San K
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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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