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Graduate Useage of the term field in QFT

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Undergrad Me not falling through the ground and Pauli's Exclusion Principle

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Graduate Quantum Physics from Classical Physics with an epistemic restriction

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Graduate How Do I Find the Energy of a Non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with Bosonic Operators?

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Graduate Is vacuum having any temperature.?

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Graduate Linear combination of two solutions of the simplified schroedinger equation

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Graduate Hermitian operators = values of variables

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Graduate Energy transfer from photon to an electron - Compton vs Photoelectric

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Graduate Deutsch and Hayden on locality

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Graduate Complex numbers from unitarity from information conservation?

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Graduate What are the eigenstates of quantum fields?

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Graduate I have never seen a Grassmann Number

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Graduate Can We Accurately Describe the Universe with One Giant Wave Function?

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Graduate Energy/particle number uncertainty in a laser beam

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Graduate Is probability a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Some basic misunderstanding in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Gluon Scattering - Colored Feynman Rules for Yang Mills Theory

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Graduate Can a electron be stationary.?

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Graduate Why can information not be transmitted via phase velocity?

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Undergrad Probability density versus radial distribution function

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Graduate Superconductivity by quantum tunneling?

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Graduate Sign Convention For Momentum Operators

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Graduate Will this anology for zero-point energy work?

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Graduate What's the color of Hawking radiation?

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Graduate Why is the center of mass energy linked to the parameter \mu?

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Graduate Double slit experiment at home

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Graduate Mathematical Foundations of the Relativistic Theory of Quantum Gravity

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Graduate Question: Early history of QM

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Graduate Does Hamilton's principle follow from the Feynman formulation of QM?

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Graduate Phase operator in quantum optics

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Graduate How would this universe be if there's NO UNCERTAINITY PRINCIPLE

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Graduate A followup to my previous question

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Graduate Particles & Size: Matter Structure & Wave Function

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment and Quantum Eraser

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Graduate Hiesenberg uncertainty principle, h or hbar?

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Graduate How to evaluate the commutator of direct product?

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Graduate Complicated, or just tricky, modern physics problem

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Undergrad Why are some materials transparent?

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Graduate Difference between classical wave function and quantum wave function

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Graduate Infrared spectroscopy and symmetry

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Graduate Why is the spin in a mirror image opposite?

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Graduate Why doesn't the energy come out right in the Dirac Equation?

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Graduate Casimir Effect within a Circular Topography

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Graduate Understanding the Von Neumann Chain Concept in Modern Quantum Theory

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Undergrad A free electron in a total vacuum

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Graduate Question about the Mach-Zehnder experiment

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Graduate Number of photons in a mode (in a blackbody)

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Graduate Understanding loopholes: what are the loopholes in entanglement swapping?

  • San K
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Graduate Lorentz transform of a scalar in QM

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Graduate Understanding the Lagrangian Density Dependence on Field Variables

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Graduate Weak interactions: I know why they're weak, but why are they slow?

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Graduate Square shape wave packet spreading

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Graduate Different between L^2 and L in Hydrogen atom

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Graduate Applications of Invariant Theory to Quantum Physics

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Graduate Variation Method for Higher Energy States

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Graduate Understanding Planck's Blackbody Law: A Comprehensive Guide

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Graduate Fine structure constant and energy scale

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Graduate Inelastic Tunneling Current Equation help

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Graduate The electric dipole approximation

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Undergrad Energy Emission: Electrons vs Protons

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Undergrad Is the number of cycles in a wave related to the uncertainty in the wavelength?

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Graduate Early annihilation of antimatter

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Graduate On the use of Hilbert Spaces to represent states

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Undergrad Does a white shirt weight more

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Graduate Can The Free Electrons Be Polarized?

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Graduate The mechanics of calculating Reduced Density Matrices

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Graduate Entanglement in QFT: Free Particle Decay

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Graduate QED Explanation of Force Between Motionless Particles

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Graduate Transformation of observables by permutation

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Graduate How photon is force carrier of electromagnetic force in macroscopic level.?

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Graduate Why is heisenberg uncertainty not a limit of technology?

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Graduate Hydrogen Atom in Uniform Electric Field

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Graduate Instant communication with a modified ZWM apparatus?

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Graduate Redundancy of Virtual Particles Borrowing Energy

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Graduate QFT w/ Negative Mass: Spin 0 vs Spin 1/2

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Graduate What branch of mathematics to study to understand Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Comparing Dirac and Schrodinger Equations for the Hydrogen Atom

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Graduate A particle in a 2d circle with potential

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Unstuck From Multiple Realities: Find Your Original Time Line

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Graduate What types of particles have a higher probability of tunnelling?

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Graduate Entanglement, Entropy and Energy

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Graduate Single Electron D-slit Interference Experiment

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Graduate Rigorous Quantum Mechanics text or online

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Graduate Understanding Electron Volts, Temperature & Boltzmann's Constant

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Graduate Square of a hermitian operator in matrix form

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Graduate Spin of a quickly moving electron

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Graduate Understanding GR vs QM: Contradiction in Neil de Grasse Tyson's Explanation

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Graduate Whats potential energy of a electron left in free space outside atom.?

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Graduate Quantum linking daughter particles from a fission

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Graduate From Metric Spaces to Linear Spaces

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Graduate Complex Amplitude: Physical Meaning & Significance

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Graduate What is the effect of e^(isH)? p.77, Ballentine

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Graduate Kinetic Energy in Classical treatment of Larmor Precession

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Graduate Quantum Computers, how do they work?

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Graduate Quantum gravity and Casimir effect

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Graduate Is the S-matrix in Weinberg's book always unitary?

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Graduate Why does dbb need to assume pilot wave?

  • San K
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Graduate EM wave function & photon state vector.

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Graduate The Schrödinger equation as the non-relativistic limit of the Dirac equation

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Graduate Energy of e.m waves in a cavity

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