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Graduate Universal quantum physics
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 Calculating Wavelength and Energy of Excited Hydrogen Atom | Help Guide
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Undergrad Hydrogen Spectroscopy: Can You View 1st & 2nd Order on One Side Only?
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Graduate 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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Graduate Weak field zeeman effect, why don't we still use degenerate perturbation theory?
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Graduate Weinberg QFT - Inner product relations, Standard momentum, Invariant integrals
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Graduate Photon wavefunction and localizability
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Undergrad Compton effect and Photoelectric effect explained by wave theory?
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Graduate Binomial Expansion: Solve for L=Hbar*(l+1/2)
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Graduate Why the De Raedt Local Realistic Computer Simulations are wrong
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Graduate Is the Past Uniquely Defined in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Schrodinger Equation in 3 dimension
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Undergrad Can Superposition and Wavefunction Collapse be Visually Demonstrated?
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Graduate What does couples as the 4th component of a vector mean in the Dirac equation?
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Graduate What is the minumum arrangement to cause decoherence?
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Graduate 'Physics of Quantum electronics vol.8 chap.5''
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Graduate Proving Bloch's Theorem
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Graduate Probabilistic quantum world and deterministic macro world?
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Undergrad Atoms at Absolute 0: Subatomic Kinetic Energy
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Graduate Is this right about the double-slit experiment and quantum physics?
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Graduate Field transformation under Lorentz group
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Graduate Are Quantum Energy and Gravity the Same Phenomenon?
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Graduate Why Do Perfect Theories Never Match Experimental Results Exactly?
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Graduate Arising of exp(-ipx) in QM in quantum field theory
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Graduate How are entangled particles separated/distinguished?
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Graduate Status of Hawking Hartle no boundary proposal
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Graduate Wedge product in tensor notation
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Graduate There is no scientific content in this webpage title.
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Graduate Photon coherence time as the wavepacket length and dephasing
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Graduate Negative Energy and Mass Symmetry
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Graduate Can someone explain the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
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Undergrad Regarding pair production and annihilation
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Graduate Ladder Operators for Harmonic Oscillator Excited States
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Graduate Feynman-Kac Formula & N-particle Canonical Partition Function
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Graduate Is there a quantum computing model that allows you to add different states?
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Graduate Why we know spin vector is an axial vector?
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Graduate Why Does the Path Integral in Quantum Mechanics Include an Imaginary Unit 'i'?
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Graduate The Unruh effect and vacuum states
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Graduate Factor in equation (3.49) of Peskin and Schroeder
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Graduate Mass defect - where does it go to?
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Graduate Schroedinger boundry equation: Smooth?
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Graduate Time in QFT and in special relativity
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Graduate Is Impulse a Discrete Observable in Physics?
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Graduate Schrodinger's equation and the finite well(conceptual)
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Graduate Understanding Electron Mass in Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics
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High School Do atoms get bigger or further apart as an object's temperature increases?
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Graduate Deriving the Born Rule from the operator-centric formulation
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Graduate Polarisation Rotators and Measurement
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Graduate Detection of a Quantum Measurement
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Graduate Question about Quantum + Thermodynamic Perturbation theory
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Undergrad How accurate is this video? Double Slit experiment
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Graduate Lorentz transformation in Coulomb gauge
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Graduate Why photons are free from decoherence?
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Graduate Problem with density matrix
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Graduate Why is this a definition of the partition function?
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Graduate Exchange Forces and Symmetrization of Fermions/Bosons
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Graduate Fermionic Fock space superselected?
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Undergrad Still a bit confused about electron orbitals?
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Graduate Heiseinbeg's Uncertainty Priciple and Schrodinger's eqt
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Undergrad Calculate De Broglie Wavelength of Electron | Help for Final Exam
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Graduate Mechanism of Bond Energy Absorption
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Graduate Wavefunction from probability, OR current from charge density?
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Graduate Is Thomas Campbell's Interpretation of the Double Slit Experiment Valid?
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Graduate Fine structure constant and perturbation theory
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Graduate Decoherence Time Scale for Different Qubit Realizations
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Undergrad Understanding Energy Bands in Solids: A Quick Question on Band Theory
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Graduate Free Particle in Quantum Mechanics Explained
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Graduate Static electric field in Quantum Field Theory?
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