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Graduate Is information lost if a particle is annhilated by it's antiparticle

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Graduate Understanding Spin in Quantum Mechanics: What Does Measuring Along an Axis Mean?

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Graduate Symmetries and Spin orbit interaction

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Graduate Quantum physics vs classical physics

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Graduate Black holes, universe boundaries and geometry

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Graduate What Are the Limitations and Possibilities of Measuring Time?

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Graduate Prove Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for Ground State Harmonic Oscillator

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Graduate What does the operator C^3 represent in Bra-ket notation?

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Graduate Immortality and Schrodinnger's Cat

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Graduate Lagrangian visualisation and Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Proof of Baker-Hausdorff Lemma - Find Online for Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Correlation functions vs. Scattering Amplitude

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Graduate Is the Photon's Mass Really Zero?

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Graduate QM: measurement vs interaction

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Graduate Explanation of a failed approach to relativize Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Perturbation theory infinite well

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Graduate Is there a universal relationship between momentum and wave vector?

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Graduate 'Advantages' of Quantum Encryption

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Graduate Feynman Path Integral - All Possible Paths - Relativity Conflict?

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Graduate Help understanding position operator eigenfunction derivation

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Graduate Understanding Phase & Group Velocities in Different Contexts

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Graduate Can an even number of Fermions be a Bosonic system?

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Graduate Calculation of the Pontryagin index

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Graduate Experimental evidence for the ground state of energy

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Graduate Why is it impossible to teleport quantum states?

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Graduate Young's Double Slit Experiment with Single Photon Counters and Offset Mask

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Graduate Momentum Eigenfunctions and Definite Momentum

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Graduate Time partial derivative of a wave function

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Graduate Qualitative description of photon from faraway star

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Graduate Dirac equation for proton/neutron

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Graduate Quantum Correlations with no Causal Order

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Graduate A cat, an electron, and a metaphysician walk into a bar

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Graduate Entanglement after the photons no longer exist

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Graduate Is the Planck length relative?

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Graduate So what does a single photon do to a group of charged particles?

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Graduate Integrating the Expectation Value

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Graduate Understanding Unpolarized Spin States in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Probabilistic breakdown of quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Help me understand wave equation ?

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Graduate Parity Exchanges Right & Left-Handed Spinors: Q&A from Page 94 of Tong's QFT

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Graduate Bloch Oscillation in 1D crystal Lattice

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Graduate Proving Eigenstate Energy: Multiply ψ(x) by Hamiltonian Operator for e-ikx

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Graduate Help understanding this Lie Algebra/Group stuff

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Graduate Origin of the schroedinger's wave equation

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Graduate I must be doing something wrong ?

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Graduate Why do wavefunctions sometimes combine?

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Graduate What Are Negative Energies in System ψ?

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Graduate Is the vacuum state's energy affected by the size of the box?

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Graduate Solving the general Schodinger equation

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Graduate Expanding Higgs Field: Where Does Energy Come From?

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Graduate What Determines the Direction of a Dipole Operator in Quantum Optics?

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Graduate How does quantum mechanics explain the big bang? Infinite realities?

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Graduate On the meaning of indeterminism of Quantum Theory

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Graduate Boson Statistics: Why Does the Rule Fail?

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Graduate Unitary operator + Lorents transformations (question from Peskin)

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Graduate Michio Kaku's teleportation device

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Graduate Charge as a coefficient of the Lie algebra?

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Graduate How do I expand gamma matrices without adding a unity matrix?

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Graduate Problem understanding Green's function equality in Messiah QM II

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling Probability for a rectangular barrier

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Undergrad Quantum Tunneling VS Water (or any other) Waves

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Graduate Quark-Gluon Plasma: Temperature, Validity & Quantum Theories

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Graduate What is the range of angles for the quantum spin correlation formula?

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Graduate SU(2) generators in j=1, and pauli uncertainty

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Graduate Time Dependence in Pictures of QM

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Graduate What is the Operator for Absolute Value of Momentum in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate 1D Groundstate wavefunction always even for even potential?

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Graduate Quantum linear response theory?

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Graduate Radius of the electron and uncertainty

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Graduate Why is the pilot-wave theory controversial ? Is it?

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Graduate Conservation of momentum and uncertainty.

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High School Query regarding concepts of charges

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Graduate How does conservation of energy/mass apply to neutrinos?

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Graduate Is the Quantum Spin Complementary?

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Graduate Deriving Measurement Operators for Realistic Detectors

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Undergrad Electron Configuration for Multivalent electrons.

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Graduate Spectrum of Sodium vs. Hydrogen

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Graduate Can a conscious observer collapse the probability wave?

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Graduate Question on the probabilistic nature of QM

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Graduate Repeling particles on a ring, minimum angular momentum.

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Graduate Noether currents for local gauge symmetry

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High School I wanted to know how it is determined uncertainty

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Undergrad Can EM Radiation Create Repulsion on Non-Magnetic Objects?

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Graduate How Can the Bell Experiment Be Performed with a Guaranteed Polarization?

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Graduate Field theory plane wave volume integral

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Graduate The crazy world of quantum mechanics.

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Graduate Plane waves and sites distance in a lattice

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Graduate Need help with Weinberg's QFT-Space inversion and time-reversal

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Graduate What is the Smallest Unit of Time for Measuring Acceleration?

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Graduate Visualising mathematical concepts in QM - comments needed

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Graduate Blurness of rings in electron diffraction

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Universe from Nothing: A Book Review

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Graduate An issue with the vector model of spin and its operators

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Graduate Equivalent vectors in a Hilbert space

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Graduate Quantum Mechanical Tunneling Probability

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Graduate Double-slit experiment questions

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Graduate Can Two Particles Occupy the Same Position in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Big bang according to Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Photon Emission from electrons and the EM field

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Graduate Who does or sees an experiment on rectangluar potential barrier?

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