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Graduate What happens when light moves in electromagnetic field?

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Graduate What does this example say about the applicability of Bell's inequalities?

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Graduate The inconsistent quantum physics and magnetic theory

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Graduate Wavefunction DFT (Mathematica)

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Graduate Compute Matrix for Simple Quantum Gates

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Graduate Quantum Information: Why |<φ|exp(iα)|ψ>|^2 Differs

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Graduate Electron precession and flip contridiction?

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Graduate Question about the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment

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Graduate The physics behind the thermal light quantum imaging?

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Graduate Cross section computation - Huang's Statistical Mechanics

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Graduate Can quantum mechanics predict exact future states from known initial conditions?

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Graduate How/when can I take a wave function and its complex conjugate as independent?

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Graduate Problem with Hermicity of Density matrix

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Graduate Quantum Field Theory lecture by Tong (Cambridg)

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Graduate Three outcome systems in Bell/CHSH

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Graduate What is the relation between particle and field?

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Graduate Momentum operator's relation to commutative algebra

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Graduate Electron Magnetic Moment's Difference From Classical Mechanics

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Graduate Electron spin and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

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Graduate Wavelength of matter waves at speed equal to zero.

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Graduate Is the Canonical Ensemble Rule Derived Ad Hoc in Statistical Mechanics?

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Graduate Wave Particle Duality Question

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Graduate How can we consider static electromagnetic field in QFT point of view?

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Graduate Hartree Fock Method Symmetric Energy Expression

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Graduate Is the Charge Q Lorentz Invariant in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Is the Polarisation of a Teleported Photon Definite Prior to Teleportation?

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Graduate O(2) symmetry breaking trouble

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Graduate How does a neutral particle interact with a photon?

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Graduate When is operator phi(x) an observable in QFT?

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Graduate Does an electron-positron wavefunction have to be antisymmetric?

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Graduate Can the laws of physics be violated?

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Graduate Question about hermitian operators

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Graduate Can we interchange the Dirac Matrices?

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Undergrad Double slit interference with single pencil lead?

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Graduate Questions concerning Bhabha scattering

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Graduate Grassman numbers and change of variables

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Graduate Matrix Elements of Operators & Orthonormal Basis Sets

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Graduate 2D H.O., graph phase space in R^2?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Born to be Linear?

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Graduate Explaining Time Dependent Potentials

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Graduate Non-unitary process? Doesn't that mean FTL?

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Graduate Density of States: Varying Boundary Conditions

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Graduate Question: Reality of Quantum State Paper by Pusey, Barrettm & Rudolp

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Undergrad Why Do Electrons Occupy Such Large Spaces in Orbitals?

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Graduate Neglected solutions to the (free) Dirac equation?

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Graduate Wavefunction After Measurement

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Graduate A classical challenge to Bell's Theorem?

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Graduate Richard Feynman's sum-over-paths approach to quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Expectation Value for system of identical particles

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Graduate Diffraction of c60. seeking description of experiment.

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Graduate Question about measuring physcial observables

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Graduate Does diamagnetism cause a faster orbital spin

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Graduate A simple question on a modified Double-Slit Experiment

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Graduate What is the uncertainty speed of a hydrogen atom inside a virus?

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Undergrad Difference between an expectation value and an average

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Graduate Super position and mathematical limitations

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Graduate SO(2,1) Lie Algebra Derivation

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Graduate Does Electron Coulomb Repulsion Affect the Double-Slit Experiment Pattern?

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Graduate Is the matter wave of a photon affected by the presence of an electron?

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High School Light, Sound, Radio Waves: Up/Down Motion?

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Graduate Why does Dirac Equation describe spin 1/2 particles?

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Graduate Short question about probability amplitudes

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Undergrad Link to description of detector type for double-slit experiment

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Graduate Spin-orbit interaction and bremsstrahlung

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Graduate Position representation of a wavefunction - technical issue

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Graduate Young's double slit experiment: reconciling facts and theory

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Graduate How do you find the generator corresponding to a parameter of a Lie group?

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Graduate Commutators of Angular momentum operator

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Graduate What is product space in the context of quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Request for Link on orbital decay energy characteristics

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Graduate Compton Scattering: Largest Shift & Min Energy Transfer

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Graduate Absorption coefficient of quantum well

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Graduate Question about Orthogonal Polynomials

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Graduate Looking for a Dirac book on qft

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Graduate Basic:applying uncertainty principle for confined particle

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Graduate Peskin's Introduction to QFT 3.82 - What Has He Done?

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Graduate Questions about quantum mechanics reducing the complexity of classical models

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Undergrad Photon wavelength and energy for hydrogen transition to second excited state

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Undergrad Hydrogen Spectroscopy: Can You View 1st & 2nd Order on One Side Only?

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Graduate How to interpret the time-energy uncertainty relation

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Graduate What is the differene between Rigid Hilbert Space and Hilbert Space?

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Graduate Wave function collapse for Schrödinger's cat

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Graduate Understanding Complex Group Parameters for SO(4) Lorentz Algebra

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Graduate Can a point in S^3 be uniquely labeled by a 2 component Spinor?

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Graduate String Theory & Particle-Wave Duality: Can Oscillating Strings Explain?

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Graduate I have some questions about wavepackets.

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Graduate QM only possible in flat space?

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Graduate Hermitian conjugate of an operator

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Graduate Transition from Poisson bracket into Canonical Commutation Relations

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Graduate Solving Commutators & Calculations: W^2, p^α=0

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Undergrad Comparing Wave & Partical Models Of Light

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Graduate Are Input Photons #2 and #3 Still Entangled After Going Through a Beam Splitter?

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Graduate Are Electrons and Photons Like Water Molecules and Waves?

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Graduate CHSH and the triangle inequality

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Graduate Would a particle at the edge of the universe have an infinite amplitude

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Graduate Dyade Dirac Notation: Why Last Equation?

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Graduate Multiple quantum entanglements

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Graduate Box^2 A_μ = J_μ ; [Dirac operator] ψ = 0 or not?

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Graduate Separable state vs part of entangled state

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Graduate Question about this interaction in QFT

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