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Undergrad What gives a proton it's charge?

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Graduate The generator of time translation

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Graduate Quantum tunnelling w/ macroscopic objects

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Graduate Double Slit - Multiple Observers

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Graduate Problem with changing basis in Hilbert space

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Graduate Faster than light subatomic spin

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Graduate Realism in the vein of EPR and Bell

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Graduate Some fundamental questions on light matter interactions

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Graduate Normalization of photon pulse. I'm confused

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Graduate Differential cross sections in Peskin & Schroeder

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Graduate What are the Origins and Properties of the Graviton?

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Graduate Is reality at quantum level just probablilistic?

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Graduate Wavefunction collapse - experimental proof?

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Graduate Propagator using Functional QFT

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Graduate Evaluate Wigner Weyl Transforms for xp+px/2

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Graduate A peculiarity in uncertainty principle

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Graduate Hermitian Operator Expectation Values

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Graduate Unruh effect and energy imparted to a detector

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Undergrad Is a Planck length really the smallest length?

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Graduate What is the behavior of an electron in an asymmetric potential well?

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Graduate Understanding the Contradiction: Spin Rotation in Quantum Systems

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Graduate Do QM and Thermodynamics interact?

  • AndySA
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Graduate Are Field Quanta Truly Real in Quantum Field Theory?

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Undergrad What is the Weak Nuclear Force?

  • dbmorpher
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Undergrad Images of electron orbitals for H2, He, Li and Li2?

  • Br.S
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Graduate Does a Detector Alter Diffraction Patterns in the Two-Slit Experiment?

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Undergrad Quick Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Question

  • jaketodd
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Graduate Does QM itself prevent removal of noise without comparison

  • San K
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Graduate How Does Gauge Theory Apply to Electrodynamics and Teleparallel Gravity?

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Graduate Parity Violation in Weak Decay

  • svrphy
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Graduate Is Macroscopic Pilot-Wave Theory the Key to Understanding Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Neutron interferomerty with Protons?

  • shunra
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Graduate What is the title of the webpage?Do Electrons Really Orbit the Nucleus?

  • Denver Dang
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Graduate What counts as an observation in QM?

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Graduate Reference for Axiomatic Quantum Statistical Mechanics

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Graduate Why photon wave function does not exist?

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Graduate Invariance of schroedinger equation

  • jk22
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Graduate Density matrix off-diagonal elements

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Graduate Can't understand the algebraic theory of spin.

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Graduate Shankar Questions About Quantum Mechanics (Schwarz Inequality)

  • Dr_Pill
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Graduate Spin angular momentum of electron

  • dev70
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Undergrad What is the Schrödinger equation and what does it describe?

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Graduate Do hidden variable theories reject superposition of states?

  • I2004
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Graduate What is the role of the path-integral formulation in quantum mechanics?

  • I2004
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Graduate Question about identical particles.

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Graduate What Books Continue Ballentine's Approach to Quantum Statistical Mechanics?

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Graduate Ground state of Phosphorus Problem

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Graduate Why do experiments violating Bell's inequality matter?

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Graduate Deriving Quantum Numbers from the Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate I don't undersrtand quantum mechanics and string theory

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Graduate Eigenstates of the momentum operator

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Graduate Effect of obstruction on Quantum Entanglement

  • San K
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Undergrad A gear that i don't know its name

  • cyth0987
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Graduate Changing the sign of 4-momenta in Feynman diagrams

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Graduate Uncovering Uncertainty: The Experimental Covariance Curve for Entangled Photons

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Graduate Where does the magnetic field in spin-orbit coupling come from?

  • alemsalem
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Graduate Angular momentum and coordinates

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Graduate How do Gaussian solutions manifest in Dirac diffusion?

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Graduate Using Wolfgang Pauli's Exclusion Principle for communication

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Graduate Energy vs. position eigenstates

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Graduate Entanglement and Bell's theorem. Is the non-locality real?

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Graduate Can Objects Be Infinitely Divisible?

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Graduate Commutator Relation: What is [\hat{A}\hat{B}, \hat{C}\hat{D}] Equal to?

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Graduate Does Quantum Decoherence Imply Permanent Superposition for Humans?

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Graduate Question about the interference effect with two distinct sources.

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Graduate Wick's Rotation contour integration

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Graduate Mathematical misconception in scattering: switching from cartesian to spherical

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Graduate Not seeing the action of a free particle in the Path Integral Formulation

  • Shmi
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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty vs Virtual Particle Fluctuations

  • sanman
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Graduate Wigner distribution in phase space

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Graduate Any experiment to falsify quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Some questions on energy of orbitals

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Graduate Light scattering and thermal emission of a body

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Graduate Fourier transform as (continuous) change of basis

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Undergrad Need a simple wave function explanation

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Graduate Lorentz Generators: (J and M) vs. S

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Graduate Interaction picture and s-matrix

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Graduate Calculating Residues and using Cauchy Integral Formula

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Graduate Degeneracy Parameter A: What is N, V, and k?

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Graduate Can someone who knows Quantum Mechanics tell me if this video is a good intro?

  • MattA147
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Graduate Potential Function of Infinite Square Well - Help Needed!

  • donsammie
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Graduate Conservation of energy during generation of entanglement

  • San K
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Graduate Question about expanding a square root in powers of gradient

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Graduate A perturbation operator problem

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Graduate Expected values in infinite square well

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Graduate About propagator and poles in QFT

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Undergrad Can any magnet achieve quantum levitation?

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Undergrad Best book for Quantum mechanics

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Graduate Canonically conjugate operators

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Graduate Gauge invariance of stress-energy tensor for EM field

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Graduate Energy E in total per level, or per state in level?

  • ZedCar
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Undergrad Difference between photon frequency and the light frequency?

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Graduate The uncertainty principle and electric field strength

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Undergrad Smallest measurable length & amount of time

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Graduate Information Theory on Wave Function Collapse

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Graduate Proton electric dipole moment?

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Graduate Particle in superposition of energy eigenstates and conservation of energy.

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Undergrad Understanding the Mystery of Electrons: The Laser Slit Test

  • DeepSpace9
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High School The Double Slit Experiment Blows My Mind

  • JtValentine
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Graduate Matter as Excitation of Fields: Model or Reality?

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