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Graduate Confusion about Wave / Particle Behaviour of X-Rays
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Graduate Quantum vacuum plasma thruster
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Graduate Should relativity affect the uncertainty principle?
- cragar
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Graduate Radiation from a continually-accelerating electron
- sshai45
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Graduate Quarter wave plate with 45 and 135 degree polarized light
- StevieTNZ
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Graduate Entanglement, classical correlation, and questions about superluminal signalling
- Physics Monkey
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Graduate Unitary equivalence of QM (not for energy?)
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Graduate Problem with the two-slit experiment
- Pianoasis
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Graduate Simultaneously Measuring Entangled Particles
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Graduate Can the future affect the past
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Graduate Why does the universe have discrete quantum levels?
- WarpedWatch
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Undergrad Calculating spacetime distance for a multi-leg journey between towns
- JackWilkinson
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Graduate Do entangled particles maintain correlated states over large distances?
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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
- g.lemaitre
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Graduate Semester Project concerning Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate Proving HO Eigenvalues Using Ladder Operators
- Loro
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Graduate How Long Does a Photon Retain Its Spin After Dis-Entanglement?
- San K
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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 Why can't an electron in an infinite square well have energy between discrete levels?
- VortexLattice
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Need recommendation for good popular science book on QM
- d3mm
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Graduate A night with the stars (Brian Cox on telly)
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Graduate Adjoint of a superposition: are complex coefficients conjugated?
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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?
- daisey
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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 Are these wavefunctions the spatial part of H2?
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Graduate A double double split experiment?
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Graduate Can previous photons' paths influence subsequent ones in double slit experiments?
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Graduate Quantum eraser and super luminous communication
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Graduate Do particles need a double slit to create interference patterns?
- JPBenowitz
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Graduate Why is coherence and entanglement complementary?
- San K
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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?
- serp777
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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 Composition rule and transformation law incompatibility in Weinberg 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 Probability amplitudes for individual paths in path integral formulation
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Graduate Quantum Particle - Spread Throughout the Universe
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Graduate What does second quantization achieve and why does the wavefunction become an operator?
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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 Is angular momentum conserved at each vertex or emergent in QED?
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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 Does quantum mechanics support indeterminism?
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Graduate Does particle-wave duality mean particles are really waves or probability functions?
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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 What experimental data led Schrödinger to 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 Could quantum entanglement let matter travel at 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 Why can bosons occupy the same state at low temperatures while fermions cannot?
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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 Role of the coincidence counter in 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?
- San K
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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?
- San K
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Graduate Covariant commutation relation in Mandl and Shaw
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Graduate Some inconsistency on operator expectation value
- karlzr
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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
- Prathyush
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