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Graduate What happens if you take two quantum entangled particle and

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Graduate Does Decoherence Solve the Measurement Problem Completely

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Graduate What does spin 1/2 mean and why two revolutions?

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Undergrad What is spin and why does is particle emission possible

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Graduate Can I Use the EOM to Simplify an Interaction Term in Feynman Diagrams?

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Graduate How many tree-levels in various QED processes

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Graduate Describing polarization of a coheret state parametrizing on poincare sphere

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Undergrad What is oscillator strength?

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Graduate How to Calculate Expectation Values in Spherical Coordinates?

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Graduate Can spin-1/2 particles deflect in the Aharonov-Bohm effect?

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Graduate Defeated by quantum field theory yet again

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Graduate How does a quantum wave function describe a particle?

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Graduate Solving Problems Using Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Unruh effect and detectors moving in a circle

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Graduate Having a hard time thinking about quantum mechanical vector addition.

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Undergrad If everything is random how can we have laws?

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Graduate Which symmetry follows Ward-Takahashi identity?

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Graduate Invariance of energy under change of origin

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Graduate Dimensional analysis of the SED

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Graduate How Does the Outer Product Operate on Quantum Mechanical Operators?

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Graduate Superposed photon hitting a polarizing beamsplitter

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Graduate Some questions on quantum teleportation

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Graduate Existence of adjoint of an antilinear operaor, time reversal

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Graduate Transforming a 4-vector integration measure

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Undergrad What exactly does a degree of freedom mean?

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Graduate Scattering Amplitude for a given potential

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Graduate Do compatible operators have the same eigenvalues?

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Graduate How Do Electrons Behave in a Half-Filled P Orbital?

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Graduate A Kantian View of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Factors of Frank Condon Blockade

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Graduate Change of basis of density matrix

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Graduate Why Does Transition Amplitude Not Equate to Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What is a loop (in Feynman Diagrams)?

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Graduate Are Spinors Truly Invariant Under Coordinate Transformations Beyond Lorentz?

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Graduate Orbital and energy shell transitions

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Graduate Faster than light information travel

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Graduate Potential in the schrödinger equation

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling: Fusion possibilities.

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Graduate Perturbation Theory (Non-Degenerate)

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Graduate Which equation is used to calculate the momentum of an electron?

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Graduate Quantum hamiltonian with an expoenntial potetial.

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Graduate Explain Spin-Orbit Coupling for d Orbital l=2

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Graduate Sx acting on up spin particle confusion

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Graduate Eigenfunctions of spin operator

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Graduate Normalizeable solutions when separating the SED

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Graduate Electromagnetic spin from Noether theorem and spin photon

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Graduate Why all operators in QM have a Hermitian Matrices

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Graduate What is the physics behind quantum tunneling

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Graduate Have i been mislead by b greene? quantum teleportation

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Graduate Second Quantization for Fermions

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Graduate Understanding Eigenvalue Measurement in Quantum Systems

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Graduate Wave function of multiple particles

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Graduate Proof of Planck Length: A Pedological Derivation

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Graduate Tunnelling and special relativity

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Graduate The Klein-Gordon equation with a potential

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Graduate Can This Equation Be Applied to Both Continuous and Discrete Energy Spectra?

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Graduate Fock spaces semantics and number of particles

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Graduate How do I handle degenerate eigenvalues and eigenvectors in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Change of Schrodinger equation when we change frame of reference

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Graduate First quantum teleportation of macroscopic objects

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Graduate What does propogation of wave packets mean?

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Graduate Coulomb potential in Kohn-Sham DFT

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Graduate Successive Measurements of angular momentum

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Graduate How Does Electron Decay in a Magnetic Field Work?

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Graduate Why must probability current vanish at the surface in Klein-Gordon equation?

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Graduate Fining Clebsch-Gordan coeffs in special cases, alternate method

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Graduate Time Confirmed: Arrow of Time for Particles

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Graduate Jacobian in path integral equal to one?

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Graduate On the quantum theory of radiation

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Graduate Expectation values of harmonic oscillator in general state

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Graduate Diffraction Pattern of Buckminsterfullerene

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Graduate How to incorporate spin into the wavefunction?

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Graduate Welcome Physics Lovers! Ask Your Questions About Electron Spin

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Graduate Are Equivalent Wave Functions Physically Equivalent in Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect: Why Can't Low Freq Light Excite Electrons?

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Graduate Measuring "Velocity" in Quantum Mechanics: Meaning of the p/m Operator

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Graduate A electron can exist in everywhere ?

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Graduate The reality of Configuration space

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Undergrad How do electron and hole wave functions overlap?

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Graduate Gauge Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics (QM I) Explained

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Graduate Expanding a translation operator

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Graduate Can We Send Information FTL Through Entanglement?

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Graduate Electric polarization of free space

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Graduate Ladder Operators and Dirac as the source.

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Graduate Why is the spin projection operator (1−γ₅s̸)/2 covariant?

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Graduate Why do wavefunctions have a complex part in the Schrodinger wave equation?

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Graduate Using Path Integral to calculate propagator

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Graduate What Are Quantum Numbers and How Are They Calculated?

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Graduate Obtaining Higher Angular Frequencies in QHO Excited States

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Graduate What is the correct method for solving the infinite square well energy problem?

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Graduate How to derive [P(x), L(y)] = iℏP(z)

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Graduate Doing a Minor Presentation of Parity/Chirality

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Graduate Is the Expectation Value of Momentum Always Zero in Time-Independent States?

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Graduate Is quantum entanglement fully understood?

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Graduate Observations in Classically Forbidden Region

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Graduate Quantum teleportation question

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Graduate Bell experiments with circularly polarized photons

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Graduate Understanding spin and axis in quantum entanglement

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Graduate Parameter μ dimensional regularization qed

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Graduate Stupid question on anomalous magnetic moment of the electron

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