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Graduate QM: Coordinate & Momentum Representation w/ Fourier Transform

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Graduate How Do You Compose Three Ket Vectors in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Is there any evidence at all for quantum counscoiusness

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Graduate HUP and Conservation of momentum

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Undergrad Schrodinger equation dedution step?

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Graduate A physical example approximating the idealized situation

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Graduate Shadow on Wall: Light Blur from Wave or Quantum?

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Graduate What is the mathematical intuition behind operator embedding?

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Graduate Bounding the speed of `spooky action at a distance'

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Graduate Understanding the de Broglie Wave Function - Need a Little Help?

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Graduate Bell State of two non-orthogonal modes

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Graduate Scope of Pauli's Exclusion Principle

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Graduate Why Does Phase Velocity Differ in Relativistic and Non-Relativistic Cases?

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Graduate Wave Particle Duality: Is It Mass-Energy Equivalence?

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Graduate Translation operator. Infinite potential well.

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Graduate About spin being an internal symmetry

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Graduate Entangled States and the Mystery of Wave Function Collapse

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Graduate Commuting Operators and Eigenfunctions in One Dimension

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Graduate Relationship Between the Probability Current and Continuity Equation

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Graduate Understanding the Physical Meaning of Orthogonality Condition in Functions

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Graduate How to measure the external quantum efficiency of OLEDs?

  • Mr. Johnson
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Graduate Polarization states directly measured : What did this experiment do?

  • Coin
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Graduate Uncertainty about Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • Steve Brown
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Graduate Can anyone explain quantum gates

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Graduate Can Negative Energy Be Produced in Small Amounts Through the Casimir Effect?

  • Chemist@
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Graduate About Schrödinger-Heisenberg connection

  • snoopies622
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Graduate The dirac equation of the hydrogen atom

  • Kamper
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Graduate Density matrix for bell states

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Graduate Understanding the Why of Pauli Exclusion

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Graduate Observables, Measurements and all that

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Graduate Lorentz contraction in the Quantum realm

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Graduate Hydrogen molecule in a small box, thought experiment

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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship between Planck's Constant and Frequency

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Graduate What Happens When the Universe is Reduced to the Planck Length?

  • DrZoidberg
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Graduate What affects the probability of finding a system in the ground state?

  • LagrangeEuler
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Graduate Could Quantum Entanglement Allow for Faster Than Light Communication?

  • Crazymechanic
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Graduate How can we measure the reality in quBits?

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Graduate On my way to Heisenberg uncert. princ.

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Undergrad How Do Experimental Physicists Measure Momentum?

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Graduate Source of Virtual Particles in Space?

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Graduate How is QED solved non-perturbatively, basic outline.

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Graduate QFT Ground State Analysis: Understanding e^(-iHT) |0>

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Graduate Photon into matter - antimatter pair production question.

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Graduate Two questions on Clebsch-Gordan coefficients

  • Yoran91
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Graduate Quick beginner question on wave-particle duality

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Graduate Breaking wavefunction into pieces

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Graduate Why Must Quantum Physics Involve Discrete Quanta?

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Graduate Why don't virtual particles cause decoherence?

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Graduate I question the double-slit experiment:

  • Symmetry3
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Graduate Prove that the angular momentum operator is hermitian

  • Septim
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Graduate Pauli Exclusion Principle and Entanglement

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Graduate Why is Schrodinger's Cat entangled? Or is it not?

  • QuantumPixel
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Graduate Can Physicists Unravel the Mysteries of Einstein-Rosen Bridges and Wormholes?

  • Kutt
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Graduate Understanding Quark-Gluon Vertex in QCD Feynman Rules

  • Einj
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Graduate Qubit Spin Convention: |0> & |1> Eigenvectors?

  • lewis198
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Graduate A little Bra-Ket notation theorem that I don't get

  • Excimer
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Graduate The Free Particle Wave Function: A Flawed Model?

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Graduate Spin orbit coupling and hydrogen problem

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Graduate Effect of photon detection mid-way between (double) slit and screen

  • San K
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Graduate Is Spin Networks Still Relevant in Quantum Gravity Research Today?

  • TGlad
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Graduate Solving Carbon Nanotube Model with Lz & Ly Expectation Values

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Graduate Time derivative of creation/annhilation operators

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Graduate Simultaneity of Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Why are Bell's inequalities violated?

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Graduate Gaussian function to derive Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

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Graduate Constructing a Toffoli gate with qubit gates?

  • randomafk
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Graduate Collapse of state vector for continuous eigenvalues

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Undergrad Paul Dirac's 1933 research paper

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Graduate Proving Pauli Matrices are Generators of SU(2)

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Graduate Will an electron vibrating in a 1D radiates?

  • thitchen
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Graduate Understanding Spin Orbit Coupling: Deriving the Hamiltonian

  • aaaa202
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Graduate About interchange phase of identical particles in Weinberg's QFT book

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Graduate A question about Heizenberg uncertainty.

  • ndung200790
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Graduate I don't understand why -1/2 is the higher energy level and +1/2 is the

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Graduate Group velocity in infinite square well

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Undergrad Black body and continuous spectrum

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Graduate I am getting into a mess with the HUP

  • MHD93
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Graduate A question on the product of two real linear operators

  • Excimer
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Undergrad The heck with the Cat, what about the Human?

  • jmoorhea
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Graduate What is the state vector after measuring

  • aaaa202
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Graduate Understanding the Translational Operator and Its Applications

  • matematikuvol
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Graduate What is a pure quantum state and a mixed quantum state?

  • rsaad
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Graduate Maxwell's equations from U(1) symmetry

  • Thoros
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Graduate Is radioactive decay reversible in time?

  • Izzhov
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Graduate Quantum Communication: Two-Way Messaging Without Physical Link?

  • Stanley514
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Graduate Is the Book's Photon Calculation Off by a Factor of 1000?

  • Fluxthroughme
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Graduate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle invalidated?

  • quantumphilosopher
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Graduate Questions about entanglement from a non-physicist

  • pkrahn
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Graduate Interference pattern calculations for unequal slits per QM theory

  • San K
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Graduate Isomorphism symmetry group of 6j symbol

  • Yoran91
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Simple Normalization/schrodinger equation problem

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Undergrad Diffraction and Probability Amplitude

  • Johnleprekan
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High School What is Orbital Angular Momentum?

  • Johnleprekan
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Graduate Quantum mechanics in multiple dimensions

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Undergrad Quantization of Energy: Planck's Constant & Standing Waves

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Graduate Is the wave-function description of photon location incomplete?

  • San K
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Graduate Proof that all operators are linear

  • dEdt
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Graduate Quantum field theory, photons, and polarization.

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Graduate The Nature of Knowledge in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Double slit experiment - no interference in the vicinity of light

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