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Graduate Schrodinger equation, lowest potential energy

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Graduate Sign confusions on CFT (yellow book) Page 29

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Graduate Wave Function Question: Understanding |0,f\rangle & \hat{c}_{\vec{k},\sigma}^+

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Undergrad Heisenberg s uncertainity principle

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Undergrad Where does the energy for electron movement in orbitals originate?

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Graduate Measuring Electron Position with Photon: The Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Photon Wave Packet Envelope Question

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Graduate Understanding Tensor Integration Notation for 4-Dimensional Space

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Graduate The picture in the addition, you see one integral equation and I have

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Graduate Are Spin and Quantum States Independent in Wave Functions?

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Graduate Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking -Conceptual Question

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Undergrad Simple harmonic oscillator- the probability density function

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Graduate Trace of a Matrix: Definition & Analysis

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Graduate Why can the spin and the angular momentum transform to each other?

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Graduate Limit to SHO / EM field analogy

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Undergrad Are Pauli Matrices Unitary and Do Their Complex Conjugates Match?

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Graduate Understanding the Disappearance of 2*A^*<A> and 2*B^*<B> in Derivations

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Graduate Why Do Photons Disappear in a Perfectly Sealed Box?

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Graduate Why Does Quantum Mechanics Use Complex Probability Amplitudes?

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Graduate Green's function for Klein-Gordon equation in x-space

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Undergrad Kenetic Energy of a Particle due to Speed

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Undergrad Why does electromagnetic radiation (energy) excite electrons?

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Graduate Do Electron Holes Have Spin Angular Momentum?

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Graduate Can we measure the effective mass of charge carriers using a centrifuge?

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Graduate Need clarification on quantum indeterminism

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Graduate Entanglement across different frames of references

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Graduate Questions about information in QM

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Graduate Unitarity of Time-evolution Operator

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Graduate Encyclopedia of Gamma Matrix Representations?

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Graduate A couple of easy questions related to quantum mechanics

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Graduate Time Dependence of Expectation Values

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Graduate Understanding Normalization Factors in Scientific Research

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Graduate Could Electrons Exist in 4 Dimensions?

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Graduate What is Heisenberg Uncertainty Formula?

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Graduate What experiment best demonstrates electron radiation?

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Graduate No general quantization recipe?

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Undergrad What's the motivation of using silver atoms in the Stern-Gerlach experiment?

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Graduate Time dependent pertubation theory

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Graduate Quantum entanglement hinting at the nature of reality?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Classical Mechanics: Is there a connection?

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Graduate Question about the uncertainty principle and unit cell in phase space

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Graduate Just a quick question about the double slit experiment.

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Graduate What Is the Doppler Effect in Matter Waves?

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Graduate Two atoms at opposite sides of the universe are connected?

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Graduate Question regarding sudden approximation

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Graduate Understanding Physics Through Randomness: A Curious Adult

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Graduate Problem with Parity for photons

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Graduate Difference wave mch. and field operators.

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Graduate Physically, what do positive frequency modes represent?

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Graduate Is the expectation value of momentum of a stationary state zero?

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Graduate Understanding the Probability of Measuring an Allowed Energy in a Wave Function

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Undergrad Heisenberg's uncertainity principle

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Graduate Understanding the Vector Spaces in Berry's Geometrical Phase Paper

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Graduate Square of a finite deltafunction

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Graduate Clarification of statement on how to evaluate S-matrix elements.

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Graduate Solving the Mystery of Light Pressure | Physics Forum

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Graduate Understanding the 1D Wave Equation for Free Particles in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Elementary Particles: Mass, Force & Matter

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Graduate Could a Fermion be Entangled with a Boson ?

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Graduate How do I treat IR divergences in e+/e- to mu+/mu- scattering?

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Graduate The HUP, simultaneous measurements, and eigenfunctions

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Graduate Fermi Distribution Explained: Energy Levels in Metals

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Graduate Where does non-locality originate in dBB theory?

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Graduate Lightspeed and entanglement 'phone' question

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Graduate Partial trace of the density matrix

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Graduate 'Toy' universe complying with Bell experiments

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Graduate Atomic electric field an issue

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Graduate Is There an Anti-Universe and Do Antimatter Particles Effect Themselves?

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Graduate Observation time and its relation to the quantum Zeno effect

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Graduate Russian Roulette and schrodinger's cat

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Graduate Two level system Schrodinger Equation problem

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Graduate Is Inertia Explained by the Higgs Mechanism?

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Graduate Bound states in propagator

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Before Classical Mechanics: Implications and Speculations

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Graduate When does a wavefunction inherit the symmetries of the hamiltonian?

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Graduate Does first order QED matrix elements vanish?

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Graduate Normalization to delta distribution

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Graduate What Determines the Barrier Field in Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling?

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Graduate Normalisation of quantum states

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Graduate Why Does Bra-Ket Notation Assume Linearity in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Find Complex Conjugate of u_j in Adjoint of Equation

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Graduate Understanding the Derivation of E=hf and its Significance in Quantum Physics

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Graduate What is the purpose of the Schrodinger wave equation in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate The arguments against macroscopic quantum states are

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Graduate Electron and graviton degrees of freedom

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Graduate Square root of volume in fourier expansion of the vector potential

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Graduate Difference between active and passive transformations.

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Graduate Does QED reproduce classical electrodynamics? How?

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Graduate Understanding the 2012 Noble prize in QM

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High School Heisenberg's uncertainity princple

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Graduate Cyclic permutation and operators

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Graduate Number of bound states and index theorems in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Free Hamiltonian problem for relativistic mechanics

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Graduate Jost Matrix: Find the Best Book to Learn about It

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Graduate Proving Hermitian Operators: (A+B)^n Remains Hermitian | Step-by-Step Guide

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Graduate Measuring energy and then momentum

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Graduate Can Magnetic Attraction Between Electrons Overcome Electrical Repulsion?

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Graduate What are the properties of time in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate More detailed explanation of photoelectric effect ?

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Graduate Is sixfold degeneracy the maximum degeneracy an angular momentum can have?

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