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Graduate Eigenvalues for X’s Pauli's matrix

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Undergrad Symmetry and symmetry breaking

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Graduate Wave properties of an electron

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Graduate Question on Decoherence and the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser

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Graduate How Do Spin and Symmetry Relate in Particle Physics and SUSY?

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Graduate Undergrad w/o formal quantum introduction, having trouble

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Graduate Total energy vs. energy in a finite region

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Graduate Effective field theories, eliminating fields using equations of motion

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Undergrad Different formulas, same physics?

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Graduate Wiegner Eckart theorem, I don't understand it

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Graduate Parity switching wave functions for a parity invariant hamiltonian?

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Graduate Is Braket Operation Legal? Elaborate Here

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Graduate Isn't all action, spooky action at a distance

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Graduate What we know about the foundations of Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Is a slit automatically also a detector?

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Graduate What are the implications of this experiment?

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Graduate Zero Point Energy: Harmonic Oscillator vs Rigid Rotator

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Graduate I am not sure to put this in this secton or computer section

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Graduate Does any field, other than gravity, bend space-time?

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Graduate Identical fermions in a box - degenerate states

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Graduate Coherent vs incoherent superposition and probability calculation

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Graduate Entangled photons with perpendicular polarizers: why don't both bells ring?

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Graduate Do Bloch modes in cylindrical rod arrays account for single waveguide modes?

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Graduate Normalization of Radial wavefunction of hydrogen atom

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Graduate Covariant Notation: Understanding Its Basics and Applications

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Graduate Velocity Distribution function of molecule at low temperature

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Graduate Quantum Nonlocality and Causation

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Graduate What is the minimum level of energy in quantum physics and who determined it?

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Graduate Find units of transition dipole moment

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Graduate Velocity distribution from position measurements and momentum

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Graduate Source of Casimir effect energy

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Graduate I can't visualize spin I know that its not just a particle rotating

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Graduate Necessity of Bell's experiment

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Graduate Average Randomness Thought experiment

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Graduate Is there a consensus on Bell's Theorem and its implications?

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Graduate Role of hermitian and unitary operators in QM

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Graduate Delayed detection in double slit experiments and retrocausality

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Graduate New and have a few initial questions.

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Graduate Energy quantization and allowed frequency values

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Graduate The Role of Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Polarization four-vector in electron-positron to muon pair production

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Graduate High energy particles and uncertainty

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Undergrad Combining light beams question

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Graduate Which order do you take derivative of delta function?

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Graduate Why Does Bell's Calculation Yield a Negative Cosine?

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Graduate Interesting New FQXi Contest Essay re: Signal Causality

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Graduate Why cant a particle go through one slit but behave as if it went through both?

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Graduate Help with the Schrödinger Equation.

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Graduate Why do atoms want a full outer shell in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Degenerate states and wavefunction collapse

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Graduate Does the Nucleus Have a Wave Function?

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Graduate Why do we consider the evolution (usually in time) of a wave function ?

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Graduate Why is the Braid Group Infinite?

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Graduate Classifying electron orbitals by nodes

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Graduate De Sitter Space and Virtual Particles

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Graduate Quantum numbers for particles in a box

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Graduate Spin 1/2-Raising and Lowering operators question

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Graduate Calculating the frequency of the fundamental vibrational mode

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Graduate Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Complete System

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Graduate Propagator for inverted harmonic potential.

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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat- Cat variations causing loopholes in the paradox?

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Graduate How are correlation functions defined for non-uniform operator theories?

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Graduate Properties of derivatives of a wavefunction?

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Undergrad What are the shapes of atomic orbitals

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Graduate Dirac Matrix Property? Possible Book mistake?

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Graduate What is the Meaning of Expectation and Deviation of an Operator?

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Graduate Square integrable functions - Hilbert space and light on Dirac Notation

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Graduate Faster than Light Information Sending Solved?

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Graduate Can Coherence Be Restored in Quantum Systems?

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Graduate How Does Quantum Entanglement Create Spooky Action at a Distance?

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Graduate Wave Function Collapse and Bayesian Probabilty

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Graduate Spherical Tensor operators for half-integers

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Graduate Why do we use Gauge Theories to describe local conservation of charge?

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Graduate The Lagrangian formalism of Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Quantum algorithms on Graphs VS Quantum Graphs

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Graduate If photon speed is constant, how does its momentum vary with frequency?

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Graduate Matrix operators Dirac notation

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Graduate Sanity check: Kitaev's quantum computing book

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Graduate How Does the Bogoliubov Transformation Apply in BCS Theory with MFA?

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Graduate Difference between a particle and its field

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Graduate Dirac notation and conjugate transpose in Sakurai

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Graduate Why the photoelectric cross section decreases with the energy of the photon?

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Graduate Contextuality and Non-Locality

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Undergrad Basic question regarding Maxwells distribution

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Graduate Relativistic Equation Questions

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Graduate Is the universe a fermion or a boson?

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Graduate How is the commutator derived through the general form of expectation value?

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Graduate Is Degeneracy in Quantum States Equally Probable in Thermodynamic Equilibrium?

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Graduate Why poles in the propagator correspond to dynamical degrees of freedom

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Graduate Wave Function Collapse: Observers & Probability in Schrodinger's Cat Experiment

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Graduate How do different physics theories describe the nature of time?

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High School Can anything travel faster than light?

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Graduate Bending Radiation: Heat Pumps and Beating Carnot's Law

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Graduate The dimensionality of the state space of a quantum system

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Undergrad What Does Black Light Do to a Blackbody?

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Graduate Expanding over R and L polarisations

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Graduate Double slit confusion from observed particle dynamics.

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Graduate Do quantum superpositions represent projections from higher dimensions?

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Undergrad General explaination of standard model/particles in general?

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Graduate What is the wave function in the time-independent Schrödinger equation?

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