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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 Can a photon be excited to a higher energy level?

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Graduate How Do Coherence and Entanglement Affect Photon Interference?

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Graduate Tensor products of bra-ket operators and states in 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 When is Aexp(i(kx - ωt)) a solution to the Schrödinger 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 Did quantum mechanics exist before observation discovered it?

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Graduate Hidden variables and measurement outcomes in Bell's chapter 2

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Graduate Bell theorem loopholes and local realism

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Graduate Why is the Bell test more definitive than double-slit interference?

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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 Does the electron have a defined position in Young's double slit experiment?

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Graduate Wave functions for Coherence and Entanglement

  • San K
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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 Why is the Faddeev-Popov identity equal to 1?

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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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Graduate Pair production - which theory does it belong to

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Graduate Understanding delayed choice experiment

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Graduate Recording of data stopping interferrence pattern

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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat - An Alteration

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Graduate Uncertainty, Symmetry, and Commutators

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Graduate Does different observer affect double slit particle experiment

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Graduate Finding Matrix Elements of Operators in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Amount of energy required to change path of a photon

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Graduate Probability density from Wave Function

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Graduate What is the correct convention for anti-fermions in Feynman diagrams?

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Graduate Is the uncertainty principle fundamental or just a measurement limitation?

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Graduate What happens to photon energy below the threshold frequency?

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Graduate Reversal of limits of integration in the derivation of probability current density

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Graduate Gaussian potential energy difference from numerical solution to Taylor expansion

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Graduate Applying Schrodinger's Cat Experiment

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Graduate Spin Quantum # in Triplet state

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Graduate Production of bound states of slow fermions- Peskin 5.3

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Graduate What is spin in subatomic particles

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Graduate Has the Uncertainty Principle been defeated?

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Graduate Electromagnetism its counterpart particle? And can it be used to create a PMF?

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Graduate Are There Any Cases of Non-Constant Particle Mass in Solid State Theory?

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Graduate Electron Exclusion via EIT/CPT?

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Graduate Electron excitation, and inhibition with EIT/CPT?

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Graduate How exactly do raising/lowering operators let you know the form of M?

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Graduate How do detectors affect particles in the double slit experiment?

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Graduate Can we apply superposition principle for states in Fock space?

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Graduate Solving SE Numerically for Periodic Potential

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Graduate What does touch look like in the subatomic world?

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Graduate State callback in photon teleportation

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Graduate What Does It Mean When Field Quanta Are Not Spatially Localized?

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Graduate Can a particle entangle with itself?

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Undergrad Space between objects when Normal force equals 0

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Graduate Can 2D Systems Simplify Path Integrals in 4D Minkowski Space?

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Graduate Popular accounts of quantum computing

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Graduate Macroscopic superpostion and hidden variable theories

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Undergrad Why Does One Photon of Light Cause the Emission of One Electron?

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Undergrad Infinite Universe, All Combinations of Matter Exist

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Graduate What is Spin in Elementary Particles?

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Graduate Photonic Properties Determining Charge

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