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Undergrad Matrix element in problem with hydrogen atom

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Graduate Rigorous treatment of Grassmann numbers in fermionic path integrals

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Graduate Stern-Gerlach experiment: recombining spin-1/2 beams

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Undergrad How to find the wavefunction in this case?

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Undergrad Degenerate perturbation theory: which linear combinations of states

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Undergrad Classical analogy approach to quantum mechanics

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Undergrad Is it a fact that vacuum energy exists?

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Undergrad Particle on a sphere problem in quantum mechanics and its solution

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Graduate Meaning of "symbol" in algebraic field theory?

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Undergrad Classical field in quantum field theory?

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Undergrad Uncertainty in an experiment with an image viewed through a big slit

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Graduate Could Altering the Past Be Possible with Time Travel?

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Undergrad Wavefunction in polar coordinates and its bra ket notation

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Undergrad Operator acting on ket state n

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Undergrad Effective mass in terms of electron states

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Undergrad Time Dependent Sinusoidal Perturbation Energy Conservation

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Graduate Schmidt decomposition - How do I find the matrix related to the state?

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Graduate Constructing the Wigner Function from Measurements of Entangled Photons

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Undergrad Position representation of product of operators in quantum mechanics

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Undergrad Position representation of angular momentum operator

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High School How Does Photon Polarization Influence Electron State Changes?

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Undergrad Applications of the proposed global quantum network of clocks

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High School Quantum entanglement and energy conservation

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Graduate Possible Ways to reduce Electron field Emission threshold

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Undergrad Inner products with spherical harmonics in quantum mechanics

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Undergrad Schwartz derivation of the Feynman rules for scalar fields

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Graduate Does partial tracing make us see things that do not occur?

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Graduate Finding the Hermitian generator of a Symplectic transformation

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Undergrad Ideas about observing position and momentum at the same time

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Undergrad Is the moment of the measurement well defined?

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Undergrad Schrodinger equation for N particles in a box

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Graduate What happens when you commute Sx and Sz in spin operators?

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Undergrad Form of potential operator of two interacting particles

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High School Higgs field and nuclear reactions

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Undergrad Basic question on meaning of momentum operator

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High School Special Relativity violation via Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad What is the role of Relativistic QM?

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Graduate What do physicists mean when they say photons have a "path"?

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High School Operator as the outcome of a measurement?

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Undergrad Propagation of uncertainty with some constants

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Undergrad E=hf for massive particles, but which Energy exactly?

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Undergrad Wavefunction of a free particle has carrier and envelope parts

  • Kashmir
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Graduate Question while I study Modern Quantum physics by Sakurai

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Graduate Are Quantum Measurements Truly Special Cases of Unitary Operators?

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Undergrad Probability when measuring a local observable

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Undergrad Computing momentum expectation and variance for Gaussian wavefunction

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Undergrad The probability density function for the double-slit experiment

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Undergrad Commutation relations for an interacting scalar field

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Undergrad Determination of entanglement by observing only one photon

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Graduate What is the Bell-like Inequality in Classical Physics?

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Graduate Is there a fixed relationship between momentum and position in the double-slit experiment?

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High School Virtual photons as force carriers

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High School Does photon handedness change on reflection?

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Undergrad Difficulty in understanding step in Deriving WKB approximation

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High School Why must light be described as particles instead of waves?

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Undergrad What happens to photonic molecules?

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Undergrad Multiple questions about eigenstates and eigenvalues

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Graduate Generalized Forces and QED/QCD

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High School Multiple entanglements question

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Undergrad Collapse of wavefunction into a forbidden eigenstate for a free particle

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Undergrad Wave function using the time dependent Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Noether and the derivative of the Action

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Undergrad Irreducible solution of the harmonic oscillator with sin(ωt)

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Graduate What is the charge range for two N vacancies in a defect crystal?

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High School Special Relativity and the Measurement Problem of QM

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High School Entangled particle decoherence question

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High School "Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible" upcoming publication

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Undergrad Is the Adjoint of the Position Operator Self-Adjoint?

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Infinite Square Well with an Oscillating Wall (Klein-Gordon Equation)

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Undergrad How to apply potential operator ##V(\hat{x})##

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Undergrad Potential Energy of an Electron-Nuclei Interaction in DFT

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Graduate Double double slit experiment and path information

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High School What does it mean that a spin 1/2 particle needs two full rotations?

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Undergrad Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy of Electrons

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Undergrad What is the physical meaning of concurence (quantum information)?

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Graduate Electron EM Field as Local Gauge Variation of Electron Matter Field

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Undergrad How does projecting the Hamiltonian into position space give the Schrödinger equation?

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Probability current density of a stationary state

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High School Do particles spontaneously pair and merge in a vacuum?

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Undergrad Can Spinors Be Represented as Square Roots of Vectors in Clifford Algebra?

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Graduate Probabilities of couples of impacts - Bob and Alice and Young experiment

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Can we accurately predict the properties of gold?

  • bland
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Graduate QED Formulation with Massive Photon Fields

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Undergrad Can a Path Integral Formulation for Photons Start from a Massless Premise?

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Undergrad Odds of getting pairs -- QM version

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Undergrad Why Are There So Few Quantum Time Machine Models?

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Undergrad Definition of magnetic moment in quantum mechanics

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Does it make sense to speak about the Grandfather paradox in QM?

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Undergrad Hamiltonian of a particle in a magnetic field

  • Kashmir
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Graduate Majorana representation of higher spin states

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Graduate Why Is Dissociation Rate Proportional to Current Raised to the Power of N?

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Graduate Definition of finite size, radiative and weak magnetism corrections

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High School Does the Schrödinger Equation Imply a Deterministic Universe?

  • Physics Slayer
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Graduate Entangled particles in curved spacetime

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Undergrad Exact dynamics of spin in varying magnetic field

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Graduate About Ruling Out Real-Valued Standard Formalism of Quantum Theory

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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics without time?

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Undergrad Projection postulate and the state of a system

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Informational Interpretation of quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Spin, pseudo-spin or whatelse? (cavity)Polariton polarimetry question

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