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Graduate Is the radial part of the Laplacian in spherical coordinates Hermitian?

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Graduate Hyperfine splitting in Hydrogen atom

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Graduate Why don't all observables commute in QM?

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Graduate HUP and the effects of measuring a particle

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Graduate Applications of Functional Analysis ?

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High School What is the Frequency of a Photon? Understanding Light Particles Explained

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Graduate What is the Frequency in Einstein's Quantum Expression?

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Graduate Pair Production: Creating Matter from Light

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Graduate Explanation for uncertainty principal?

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Graduate What Are Casimir Operators and Rest Reference Conditions in Particle Physics?

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Graduate Multiplying ψ* in Quantum Mechanics: Understanding Probability Density

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Undergrad Plasma Frequency and Work Function

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Graduate What is the Nature of Reality?

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Graduate The Multiple Worlds theory- it contradicts itself

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Graduate Is the Higgs Field a Key Player in Quantum Decoherence?

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Graduate Newbie question - about Schroedinger's Cat

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Graduate Understanding the triple slit experiment

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Graduate Debroglie Wavelength: λ & v Proportional?

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Graduate Topological Insulators Explained: Quantum Hall Effect & More

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Is Our Reality a Simulation?

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Graduate No need for spooky action at a distance

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Graduate Scalar Boson and Quantum Non-locality

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Undergrad How is the scattering cross section measured?

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Graduate Existance of ladder operators for a system

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Graduate A question about the double slit experiment

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Graduate Schrodinger Equation and seperation of variables

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Graduate Newbie Question - Double Slit Experiment - 'Interference Patterns'

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Graduate How do we know it's not some kind of attraction?

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Graduate Is double slit experiment the only proof for quantum particles' superposition?

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Graduate Is quantum gravity a promising field?

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Graduate Problem about quantum environmental decoherence

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Graduate Schrödinger and Heisenberg picture

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Graduate Questioning Schrodinger's Cat: Is Outcome Real Until Observed?

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Graduate Why is the first type bessel function called first?

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Graduate Exploring the Schrodinger Equation: How Does It Handle Split Wave-Functions?

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Graduate Questions about properties of wave-functions

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Graduate What Else Splits in Single Particle Interference Experiments?

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Graduate Is any energy required to change the phase of a wave-function?

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Graduate 3-fold degeneracy: what is it?

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Graduate What Are Fermions and Bosons in the Meson Quark Model?

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Graduate Quantum well laser diodes - Operation and design

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Graduate Superposition principle and continuity

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Undergrad Can the Photoelectric Effect Cause Metal Oxidation in a Vacuum?

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Graduate Renormalizing solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation

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Graduate Quantum mechanics of hydrogen and many-electron systems

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Graduate FermiDirac-BoseEinstein-Boltzman derivation

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Undergrad How close must the wavelength of a photon be for an atom to absorb it?

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Graduate Superposition and Pauli's principle

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Graduate Answer: What is Atom Spin: Physical or Property?

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Graduate Visualisation in Quantum mechanics

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Graduate Causality in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Eigenfunction vs wave function

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Graduate Photons emitted by an accelerated charge

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Graduate Brain freeze on Dirac EQ v. Dirac Hamiltonian

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Graduate The Higgs field and the aether

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Graduate Higgs field and General Relativity

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Graduate Principal Quantum number: n to infinity?

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Graduate Quantum numbers (free particles)

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Graduate Grassmann variables and functional derivatives

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Graduate Calculation in Peskin&Schroeder QFT book

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Graduate Position vector r and uncertainty principle

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Graduate Uncertainty principle accuracy

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Undergrad Does a gamma ray photon have less energy than a radiowave photon?

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling: Particle location

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Graduate What is the explanation behind the binary result in the EPR thought experiment?

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Undergrad If the bohr model of the atom is correct

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Graduate Explaining Determinism: A Layman's Guide to Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Complex term in refractive index , in context to rayleigh scattering

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and Observation: How Does It Work?

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High School Teleportion Questions - Michio Kaku Answers

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Graduate Feynmann diagram for photoemission process

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Graduate New quantum experiments and its implications

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Graduate I'm really new to the concept of quantum mechanics

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Graduate Mastering Bra-ket Notation: Frustrations with Quantum Mechanics Lectures

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Graduate In what sense is QM not understood ?

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Graduate What Happens to Quantum Mechanics at E=U in Step Potential?

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Graduate Can electron revolving around atom become source of gravity.?

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Undergrad Time Dilation in Childrens Cartoon

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Graduate How Does Fermat's Principle Integrate with Quantum Physics?

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Graduate How do you tell if lie groups are isomorphic

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High School Physical representation of direction

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Graduate Time symmetric quantum mechanics

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Graduate Why the magnetic moment not included in the Lorentz Force equation.

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Graduate How is the QM prediction derived for Bell's tests?

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Undergrad 2 slit experiment, what happen with 3,4,5 ?

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Graduate Arrow of time in copenhagen interpretation.

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Graduate Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

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Graduate Many questions about qubit (quantum computing)

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Graduate Is any energy required to change the spin of a photon?

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Graduate Number of cycles of light per photon

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Graduate Why Does the Balmer Series Dominate the Solar Spectrum Over the Lyman Series?

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Graduate Abnormal behavior of the Liouville-von-Neuman equation

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Graduate How Do Photons Entangle Electrons?

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Graduate The failure of so-called no-communication theorems

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Graduate Indeterminism of Quantum Mechanics and incompatibility with Relativity

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Graduate Who developed this equation, Pauli?

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Graduate Is the delta in the commutation relations of QFT a dirac delta or a kronecker?

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Graduate Lorentz invariant theory, irreducible representations

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Graduate Understanding AdS and quantization in AdS

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