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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate What is the condition for one-dimensional motion in an infinite potential well?
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Graduate How does quantum mechanics define time
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Graduate Understanding Spin in Composite Systems
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Graduate Can an electron absorb multiple photons at once?
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Graduate What contributes to proton mass besides quark mass?
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Graduate What Are Meta-Stable States in Atoms and Their Role in Lasing Action?
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Graduate Probability Density and Current of Dirac Equation
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Undergrad How does an EM wave affect an atom's energy levels?
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Graduate Can Aufbau and Hund's Rule explain electron filling after EC?
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Graduate Is Pilot Wave Theory in Conflict with the Original Matter Wave Theory?
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Graduate Feynman’s path integral and an electron in a Penning trap
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Graduate Evidence of single photon absorption?
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Undergrad Can the Movement of Atomic Parts Be Measured in Time?
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Graduate How do I solve the Schrodinger wave equation with a differential equation?
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Graduate Significance of Order in Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Implications of Heisenberg uncertainty principle
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Graduate Regularization scheme independence?
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Graduate How do wave-functions deal with energy (of the photon)?
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Graduate Rigged Hilbert space, separable space, domain of CSCO, mapping
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Graduate Publication: perpetuum mobile of fourth type
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Graduate How does this formula relate to particle creation?
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Graduate Composite system, rigged Hilbert space, bounded unbounded operator, CSCO, domain
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Graduate Imposing Klein-Gordon on Dirac Equation
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Graduate What does a quantum state represent in quantum theory?
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Graduate How a particle tells time (Holger Mueller et al in *Science*)
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Graduate Biological photonics: Can there be light in the brain?
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Graduate Understanding the Derivation of the Dirac Equation in Cosmology
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Undergrad A problem about blackbody radiation
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Undergrad Atomic excitation and electron orbits
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Graduate Rigorous definitions in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Feynman Lectures Volume 3 Equation 9.41
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Undergrad About photoelectric effect and work function
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Graduate What is Quantum State? - Understanding the Basics
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Graduate Wavelength associated with the body - What does it mean?
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Graduate Why Do Fermions Have +1/2 and -1/2 Spin?
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Graduate Double Slit Quantum Eraser, Really?
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Graduate Has Anybody Ever Tried to Build a Build an Brownian Ratchet?
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Graduate Are there any physical implications of working with unbounded operators in QM?
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Graduate Trying to Derive Dirac's equation following Dirac
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Graduate What is the meaning of uncertainty principle in QTF?
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Graduate TISE in the position representation- basic question
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Graduate Correct understanding of symmetrization requirement?
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Graduate Rotation Operator: Spin 1/2 vs Spin 1
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Graduate Sound in Bose Einstein Condensates.
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Graduate Can an Electron Have Zero Kinetic Energy in a Confined Space?
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Undergrad Why are the entries in the matrix arranged the way they are?
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Graduate What is the meaning of differential cross section in scattering theory?
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Undergrad Equipment required to to the electron double slit experiment ?
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Graduate Excite Photon: Can It Be Done?
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Graduate How Do Coherence and Entanglement Affect Photon Interference?
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Graduate Analytical Bra-Ket Tensor Products: Rules & Wolfram Mathematica
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Graduate Entanglement/event horizon red/blue shift
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Undergrad Pair production and pair annihilation
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Graduate Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Molecular Atom Selectivity?
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Graduate Can Quantum Physics and Poetry Coexist in Understanding Reality?
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Undergrad Do properties associated with photons also apply to other bosons?
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Graduate Solution to the Schrodinger equation
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Graduate What are the kinds of mesurements that affect the wave function?
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Graduate [MSc thesis ideas] Solar PV with use of quantum physics
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Graduate SU(2) a double cover for Lorentz group?
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Graduate The double slit experiment – What do I need to know?
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Graduate How long does entanglement last?
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Graduate Was there quantum mechanics before it was discovered?
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Graduate Doubt in hidden variable concepts
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Graduate Local realism ruled out? (was: Photon entanglement and )
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Graduate Another question about bell inequality
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Graduate Linear Sigma Model Invariance Under O(N)
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Graduate Quantum mechanics for the nucleus?
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Graduate Qubits and common calculations
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Graduate Does light accelerate to its speed or is it instant?
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Graduate QM Interpretation & Young's Exp: Electron Position Defined?
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Graduate Wave functions for Coherence and Entanglement
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Graduate Significance of Dirac to Wave Mechanics Model
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Graduate What is the issue with an infinite universe on a N-sphere?
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Graduate What Does Integrability Mean in Physics and Mathematics?
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Graduate Infinity potential hole - transition to base state
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Graduate Understanding Spin: Unpacking the Concept of Electron Angular Momentum
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Undergrad Thermal Equilibrium: Exchange of Kinetic Energy
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Graduate Understand Faddeev-Popov Trick: Equation 9.53 Explained
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Graduate Is there entanglement other than 50/50 energy? of the pump photon
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Graduate Could Virtual Particles Explain the Acceleration of Galaxies?
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Graduate In downconversion, can you get coherence between the signals from two sources?
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Graduate Possibility of superluminal signals using quantum entanglement
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Graduate Solutions of the free one-particle Klein Gordon equation
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Undergrad Physical meaning of wavefunction parameters x and t
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Graduate Tunneling in a non-subatomic particles
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Graduate Transition Dipole Moment and Electron Transfer
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Graduate Formula for Commutator of f(n), a, a+ Bose operators
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Graduate Is Dirac's equation still useful after QED is developed?
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Graduate How can we add Angular Momenta in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Temporal complementarity- single and two-photon interference
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Graduate How Do You Transition Between These Two Physics Equations?
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Graduate Probability and quantum possibilities
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Graduate Time independent Schrödinger equation
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Graduate Is it a misprint in QFT book of Peskin?
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Graduate Transmission and Processing of Information via Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate Wheeler Feynman absorber theory and non locality
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Graduate Are There Experiments Superior to Bell's Tests for Proving Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Pair production - conservation of momentum VS conservation of energy
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