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Graduate Conformal Invariance Klein Gordon Action

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Undergrad Reason a Dineutron is not bound?

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Undergrad How Big is a Photon and What are its Dimensions?

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Graduate Quantam Vacuum - Strong Electric fields.

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Graduate Distinction between real and virtual photon

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Graduate What causes a particle to change directions

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Graduate Semester Project concerning Feynman Diagrams

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Graduate Proving HO Eigenvalues Using Ladder Operators

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Graduate How Long Does a Photon Retain Its Spin After Dis-Entanglement?

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Graduate Eigenvalue of position operator and delta function.

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Graduate How can we know initial state of a particle

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Graduate Spin statistic terms in absorption cross section

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Graduate What Happens When an Electron Enters an Infinite Square Well?

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Need recommendation for good popular science book on QM

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Graduate A night with the stars (Brian Cox on telly)

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Graduate Solving Complex Number Equations

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Graduate Is the unpredictability of clouds due to QM uncertainty?

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Graduate Is SPIN a calculated or physically measureable characteristic?

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Graduate Deriving the Propagator: Understanding Zee's Book and the Fourier Transform

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Graduate Why is a time-dependent Hamiltonian different in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Two-fermion system wave function

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Graduate Verifying Eigen Solutions for H2 Molecule

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Graduate A double double split experiment?

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Graduate Can double slit interference be explained by the influence of previous photons?

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Graduate Quantum eraser and super luminous communication

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Interference Patterns & Worldlines

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Graduate Why is coherence and entanglement complementary?

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Graduate Deriving the Total Energy from Blackbody Radiation: A Mathematical Approach

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Graduate Does Relativity Affect Quantum Entanglement?

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Graduate Did the particle deflect due to the change in B field to an E field in my frame?

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Graduate Calculate Casimir force between several plates

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Graduate Understanding the Composition Rule and Transformation Law in Weinberg's QFT

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Graduate How can angular momentum be quantized?

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Graduate Time Dilation in QM: Elevator Experiment

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Graduate General Question About Path Integral Formulation of QM

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Graduate Quantum Particle - Spread Throughout the Universe

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Graduate Secound Quantization: Definition, Meaning & Wavefunction ψ

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Graduate Understanding Bra-Ket Notation and the Spin-Statistics Theorem

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Graduate Is Work Done During Adiabatic Compression of a Quantum State?

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Graduate What is the Correct Value of the Square of a Momentum Operator?

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Graduate Conservation of angular momentum in field theory: imposed, or emergent?

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Graduate Double slit experiment violates triangle inequality?

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Graduate Why an atom can have nonzero toal angular momentum in the ground state?

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Graduate Quantum mechanics and indeterminism essay help

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Graduate Is this person right about particle wave duality?

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Graduate Quantum Telecommunication for dummies (me)

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Graduate How does the amplitude on a EM wave graph correspond to the number of photons?

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Graduate Where are Heisenberg's Lost Notes?

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Graduate Could Quantum Jumps Occur Through Hidden Dimensions?

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Graduate Does [H,P]=0 imply no scattering in field theory?

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Graduate What's the meaning of the commutator? Not satisfied with usual answer

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Graduate Do commutators hold in interacting theory?

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Undergrad How Schro discovered his equation

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Graduate Why does the which path information collapse the wave function?

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Graduate When Electricity Takes the Shortest Path, is that Due to Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Why Does the Green Curve Have Higher Probability at the Left of the Barrier?

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Graduate What does a Bell measurement mean in quantum teleportation?

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Undergrad L=0 State: Understanding Angular Momentum and Orbital Movement

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Graduate How does potential act as a boundary for electrons in infinite well

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Graduate Weyl spinor notation co/contravariant and un/dotted

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Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Help Achieve Light Speed?

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Graduate Gauging non-compact lie groups

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Graduate A problem with the wave packet concept?

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Graduate Fermions vs Bosons: Low Temp Effects

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Graduate What do vector operators mean?

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Graduate What do we mean by spin of a particle when we say it a point particle

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Graduate Is quantum entanglement unaffected by fields/forces?

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Graduate Electrons Entangled with Nucleus?

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Graduate Is the wave function a relative wave (entanglement)

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Undergrad Can photons have mass and momentum?

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Graduate Is the Coincidence Counter Essential in Birgit Dopfer's Experiment?

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Graduate Eigenfunctions of Operators with Continuous Sprectra

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Graduate Spin and the violation of the speed of light

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Graduate The erase of quantum states by measurement

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Why do my threads keep getting deleted?

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Graduate The wave-function of the universe

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Graduate Entanglement - Does FTL via entanglement violate causality or relativity?

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Graduate Attractive forces in 3-d space

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Graduate Particle Movement: The Importance of Distance and Shape at the Smallest Scale

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Undergrad Rydberg Constant: What Does Re Refer To?

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Graduate Calculate Particle Wave Function Over 1 Planck Time

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Graduate What is Quantum Tunnel Splitting in a Double Well Potential?

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Graduate Is a-causality necessary for randomness?

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Graduate Covariant commutation relation in Mandl and Shaw

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Graduate Some inconsistency on operator expectation value

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Graduate Poisson Bracket - Constrained system

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Graduate I am aware that physicists are trying to derive born rule from unitary evolution

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Graduate Gaussian wavepacket and position-momentum uncertainty

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High School Will My Double Slit Experiment Setup Using an Electron Gun Work?

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Graduate Significance of commutation of operators? position and momentum

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Graduate Difference between eigenvalue and an expectation value

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Graduate POVM Measurement Example: Intuitive & Easy-to-Understand

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Graduate Suppose i am performing the diffraction experiment using a single electron

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Graduate Operators and commutation of operators

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Graduate A question about <The Quantum Theory of Fields> P.120

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Graduate Strong and weak interactions particles

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Undergrad Normalizing Data: Unknown Values

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Graduate Gravity - relationship with Electromagnetism?

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Graduate Modification to the wavefunction with application of an electric field

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Graduate Heitler London Method: What Do S & T Mean?

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