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

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Graduate Fermionic Number Operator Help

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Graduate Normalizing a wave function - how the integration is done?

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Graduate Best way to solve Schrodinger's wave equation numerically.

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Graduate Terms in the Yang-Mills Lagrangian

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High School Helo, I am just wondering about some info I foind on the web.

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Undergrad Understanding SHM: Calculating the Wave Function of a Simple Harmonic Wave

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Graduate Finding the Eigen Value of A.σ Vector Product

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Graduate Is this a good definition of entanglement

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Graduate Can someone give me some examples on the schrodinger equation?

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Graduate What is the difference between a wave of water and qm wave?

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Graduate Question about potential well schrodinger

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Graduate Do angular momentum operators anti-commute?

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Graduate Couple of quantum fluctuation related questions from a curious layman

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Graduate Minimal Subsitution from Lorentz Invariance

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Graduate Why are there multiple Slater determinants for the same number of electrons?

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Graduate Dirac Equation: Gamma Matrices as 4-Vector Components?

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Graduate Spin-orbit coupling for s-orbital states

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Graduate Can Measuring One Spin Disentangle Electrons?

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Graduate What is the physical meaning of [H,ρ ]=0 for a stationary state?

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Graduate What is the concept behind the Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Is this the HUP or diffraction?

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Undergrad P-subshell orbital of Hydrogen

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Graduate Why are only some photons virtual?

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Graduate Entanglement happens at what speed?

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Graduate Born Rule Derivation: A Closer Look

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Graduate Virtual particles vs. real particles

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Graduate How Do Photons Mediate Attraction Between Oppositely Charged Particles?

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Undergrad Photoelectric effect - Frequency vs. Current

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Graduate Diagonal Matrix & Perturbation Theory in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Planck's Derivation of Quantization: Summation vs Integrand

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Graduate Variational Method vs Inverse Rayleigh Method with Shifting

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Graduate Is Bell's theorem near-sighted?

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Graduate Is This the Correct Method for Quantizing the Scalar Field?

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Graduate Peskin & Schroeder QFT Born Approximation reference.

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Graduate Understanding the Bethe-Salpeter Equation: Introduction and Examples

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Graduate Separating operators into classical + quantum

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Undergrad Radiation absorption by an atom

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Graduate Has the double slit experiment been conducted without a detector?

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Graduate Question about a quantum field.

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Graduate Photons violate Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Formal integration of Heissenberg equation?

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Graduate HUB & accurate single measurement

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Undergrad Chaos Theory and Schrodinger's Cat: A Quirky Connection

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Graduate Lorentz action on creation/annihilation operators

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Graduate Can bodies be made to radiate at one freq.

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Graduate Ehrenfest theorem for kinetic energy

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Graduate Joy Christian, Disproof of Bell's Theorem

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Graduate Renormalized vertex always a log?

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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)?

  • San K
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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?

  • JohnRood
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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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