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Graduate Power series in quantum mechanics
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High School Derivative of a particle’s energy
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High School Statistical Independence in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Understanding the diagonal elements of the transition dipole moment
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High School Is Quantum Field Theory Understandable Without Advanced Mathematics?
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Graduate 1D Quantum Well - Different width "naming" gives different result ?
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Undergrad What is the Role of the Radial Position Operator in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Schrodinger Equation from Ritz Variational Method
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Graduate Computing Correlation functions
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Undergrad Understanding Landau Levels for 3D Fermionic Gas in Magnetic Field
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High School Low magnification, high resolution, experiments on photon sieves?
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High School Wave function won't collapse under a microscope?
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Undergrad Spin, Angular Momentum, Momentum, Energy & NRQM
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Undergrad Role of Fine Structure Constant in Q.E.D.?
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Undergrad Blender Particle Photon Simulation (interesting results w soft bodies)
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Undergrad Why don't we consider ##E_{com}## while solving a two body problem?
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Graduate Homodyne detection quantum state tomography
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Graduate POVMs for Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Spaces
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Undergrad Doubt in understanding degenerate perturbation theory
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Undergrad Simulating physics: the current status of lattice field theories
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Undergrad Finding ##S_x## eigenstate using experiments
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Undergrad Conventional description of the matter wave
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Graduate Molar heat capacity of CO2 is too high. Why?
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Graduate What is meant by pruning and enrichment?
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Undergrad Particle on a cylinder with harmonic oscillator along z-axis
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Undergrad Why Can We Use This Mathematical Formula for Mean Value of Measurement?
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High School Is gravitized quanta the solution rather than quantum gravity?
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Undergrad Can you tell the difference between two neutrons in an alpha particle?
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Graduate Position basis in Quantum Mechanics
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High School Are zero-point energy and inertia incompatible?
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Undergrad Can someone explain why momentum does not commute with potential?
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Undergrad Deriving the Commutator of Exchange Operator and Hamiltonian
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Undergrad Modern Atom Model: Is It Perpetual Motion?
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High School What happens when 2 beams of light interact?
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Undergrad Hamiltonian of a particle moving on the surface of a sphere
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Undergrad Matrix element in problem with hydrogen atom
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Graduate Grassmann number: a more rigorous treatment?
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Graduate Another thought experiment about spin 1/2
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Undergrad How to find the wavefunction in this case?
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Undergrad More doubts in perturbation theory
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Undergrad Classical analogy approach to quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Is it a fact that vacuum energy exists?
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Undergrad Particle on a sphere problem in quantum mechanics and its solution
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Graduate Meaning of "symbol" in algebraic field theory?
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Undergrad Classical field in quantum field theory?
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Undergrad Uncertainty in an experiment with an image viewed through a big slit
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Graduate Could Altering the Past Be Possible with Time Travel?
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Undergrad Wavefunction in polar coordinates and its bra ket notation
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Undergrad Operator acting on ket state n
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Undergrad Effective mass in terms of electron states
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Undergrad Time Dependent Sinusoidal Perturbation Energy Conservation
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Graduate Schmidt decomposition - How do I find the matrix related to the state?
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Graduate Constructing the Wigner Function from Measurements of Entangled Photons
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Undergrad A doubt regarding position representation of product of operators
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Undergrad Position representation of angular momentum operator
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High School How Does Photon Polarization Influence Electron State Changes?
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Undergrad Applications of the proposed global quantum network of clocks
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High School Quantum entanglement and energy conservation
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Graduate Possible Ways to reduce Electron field Emission threshold
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Undergrad Inner products with spherical harmonics in quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Schwartz derivation of the Feynman rules for scalar fields
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Graduate Does partial tracing make us see things that do not occur?
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Graduate Finding the Hermitian generator of a Symplectic transformation
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Undergrad Ideas about observing position and momentum at the same time
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Undergrad Is the moment of the measurement well defined?
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Undergrad Schrodinger equation for N particles in a box
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Graduate What happens when you commute Sx and Sz in spin operators?
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Undergrad Form of potential operator of two interacting particles
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High School Higgs field and nuclear reactions
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Undergrad Basic question on meaning of momentum operator
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High School Special Relativity violation via Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad What is the role of Relativistic QM?
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Graduate What do physicists mean when they say photons have a "path"?
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High School Operator as the outcome of a measurement?
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Undergrad Propagation of uncertainty with some constants
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Undergrad E=hf for massive particles, but which Energy exactly?
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Undergrad Wavefunction of a free particle has carrier and envelope parts
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Graduate Question while I study Modern Quantum physics by Sakurai
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Graduate Are Quantum Measurements Truly Special Cases of Unitary Operators?
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Undergrad Probability when measuring a local observable
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Undergrad Finding Momentum Mean & Variance from Wavefunction
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Undergrad The probability density function for the double-slit experiment
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Undergrad Commutation relations for an interacting scalar field
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Undergrad Determination of entanglement by observing only one photon
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Graduate What is the Bell-like Inequality in Classical Physics?
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Graduate Double-Slit Experiment: Momentum & Position
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High School Virtual photons as force carriers
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High School Photon Chirality: Left, Right & Beyond
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Undergrad Difficulty in understanding step in Deriving WKB approximation
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High School In what way does light behave that is incompatible with waves?
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Undergrad What happens to photonic molecules?
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Undergrad Multiple questions about eigenstates and eigenvalues
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Graduate Generalized Forces and QED/QCD
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High School Multiple entanglements question
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Undergrad Collapse of wavefunction into a forbidden eigenstate for a free particle
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Undergrad Wave function using the time dependent Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Noether and the derivative of the Action
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Undergrad Understanding the Irreducible Solution in Classical Harmonic Oscillators
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Graduate What is the charge range for two N vacancies in a defect crystal?
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High School Special Relativity and the Measurement Problem of QM
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