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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 Does complex amplitude in Schrödinger's equation have physical meaning?

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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?

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Graduate Reconciling EM plane wave with single photon expectation values

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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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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 Why does the delayed choice quantum eraser require post-selection?

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Graduate Can classical light correlations create quantum imaging effects?

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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.

  • Jimmy Snyder
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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 Why do all hermitian operators have eigenvalues and eigenvectors?

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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 Do matrix elements and expansion coefficients work with non-orthonormal bases?

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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 When does a potential depend on time in quantum mechanics?

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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 Pusey-Barrett-Rudolph theorem and quantum state realism

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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 Can expectation values be non-eigenvalues of an operator?

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Graduate Does diamagnetism cause a faster orbital spin

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Graduate Interference pattern with a half-screen in 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 Which complex conjugate is the probability amplitude?

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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 Why do entangled photons produce interference patterns?

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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 angle for largest shift and minimum energy for half transfer

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Graduate Absorption coefficient of quantum well

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Graduate Resources on orthogonal polynomials for physicists

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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 Measuring hydrogen spectroscopy orders 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 Can string oscillations explain particle-wave duality?

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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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