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Undergrad Time Dependent Sinusoidal Perturbation Energy Conservation
- Samama Fahim
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Graduate Schmidt decomposition - How do I find the matrix related to the state?
- Arquimedes
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Graduate Constructing the Wigner Function from Measurements of Entangled Photons
- neils
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Undergrad A doubt regarding position representation of product of operators
- Kashmir
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Undergrad Position representation of angular momentum operator
- Kashmir
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High School How Does Photon Polarization Influence Electron State Changes?
- msumm21
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Undergrad Applications of the proposed global quantum network of clocks
- phoenix-anna
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High School Quantum entanglement and energy conservation
- FR4S3R97
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Graduate Possible Ways to reduce Electron field Emission threshold
- domovinavi
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Undergrad Inner products with spherical harmonics in quantum mechanics
- Salmone
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Undergrad Schwartz derivation of the Feynman rules for scalar fields
- eoghan
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Graduate Does partial tracing make us see things that do not occur?
- Heidi
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Graduate Finding the Hermitian generator of a Symplectic transformation
- andresB
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Undergrad Ideas about observing position and momentum at the same time
- danielgossner
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Undergrad Is the moment of the measurement well defined?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Schrodinger equation for N particles in a box
- Kashmir
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Graduate What happens when you commute Sx and Sz in spin operators?
- Dennmac
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Undergrad Form of potential operator of two interacting particles
- Kashmir
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High School Higgs field and nuclear reactions
- Andrewtv848
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Undergrad Basic question on meaning of momentum operator
- Kashmir
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High School Special Relativity violation via Quantum Mechanics?
- thedubdude
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Undergrad What is the role of Relativistic QM?
- fxdung
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Graduate What do physicists mean when they say photons have a "path"?
- vanhees71
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High School Operator as the outcome of a measurement?
- Heidi
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Undergrad Propagation of uncertainty with some constants
- happyparticle
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Undergrad E=hf for massive particles, but which Energy exactly?
- AlonZ
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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
- BREAD
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Graduate Are Quantum Measurements Truly Special Cases of Unitary Operators?
- Heidi
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Undergrad Probability when measuring a local observable
- Yan Campo
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Undergrad Finding Momentum Mean & Variance from Wavefunction
- Kashmir
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Undergrad The probability density function for the double-slit experiment
- Ad VanderVen
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Undergrad Commutation relations for an interacting scalar field
- eoghan
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Undergrad Determination of entanglement by observing only one photon
- fluidfcs
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Graduate What is the Bell-like Inequality in Classical Physics?
- Heidi
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Graduate Double-Slit Experiment: Momentum & Position
- Ad VanderVen
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High School Virtual photons as force carriers
- ergo
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High School Photon Chirality: Left, Right & Beyond
- Jeff Root
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Undergrad Difficulty in understanding step in Deriving WKB approximation
- curious_mind
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High School In what way does light behave that is incompatible with waves?
- Ray McDavis
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Undergrad What happens to photonic molecules?
- unsaint32
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Undergrad Multiple questions about eigenstates and eigenvalues
- Sebas4
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Graduate Generalized Forces and QED/QCD
- JohnH
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High School Multiple entanglements question
- brajesh
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Undergrad Collapse of wavefunction into a forbidden eigenstate for a free particle
- Kashmir
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Undergrad Wave function using the time dependent Schrodinger equation
- ThiagoSantos
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Graduate Noether and the derivative of the Action
- nemuritai
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Undergrad Understanding the Irreducible Solution in Classical Harmonic Oscillators
- George444fg
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Graduate What is the charge range for two N vacancies in a defect crystal?
- jackwangsg
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High School Special Relativity and the Measurement Problem of QM
- User2022
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High School Entangled particle decoherence question
- brajesh
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High School "Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible" upcoming publication
- StevieTNZ
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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)
- Foracle
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Undergrad How to apply potential operator ##V(\hat{x})##
- Kashmir
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Undergrad Potential Energy of an Electron-Nuclei Interaction in DFT
- Dario56
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Graduate Double double slit experiment and path information
- Heidi
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High School What does it mean that a spin 1/2 particle needs two full rotations?
- vijayantv
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Undergrad Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy of Electrons
- Dario56
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Undergrad What is the physical meaning of concurence (quantum information)?
- Arquimedes
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Graduate Electron EM Field as Local Gauge Variation of Electron Matter Field
- CSnowden
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Undergrad Clarification on how bra ket works here
- Kashmir
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Undergrad Probability current density of a stationary state
- Thomas Rigby
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High School Pair production -- Seeking clarification of the explanation
- Quixotic Larry
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Undergrad Can Spinors Be Represented as Square Roots of Vectors in Clifford Algebra?
- Gerenuk
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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
- M91
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Undergrad Can a Path Integral Formulation for Photons Start from a Massless Premise?
- gerald V
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Undergrad Odds of getting pairs -- QM version
- anuttarasammyak
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Undergrad Why Are There So Few Quantum Time Machine Models?
- avpol
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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?
- jordi
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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
- fsh26
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Graduate Why Is Dissociation Rate Proportional to Current Raised to the Power of N?
- Piki
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Graduate Definition of finite size, radiative and weak magnetism corrections
- angweieng
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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
- Heidi
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Undergrad Exact dynamics of spin in varying magnetic field
- KDPhysics
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Graduate About Ruling Out Real-Valued Standard Formalism of Quantum Theory
- Haorong Wu
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics without time?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Projection postulate and the state of a system
- Kashmir
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Undergrad Informational Interpretation of quantum mechanics?
- Mgt3
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Undergrad Spin, pseudo-spin or whatelse? (cavity)Polariton polarimetry question
- dchafatinos
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Undergrad The determination of a particle's spin
- Randall71284
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High School Can probability waves be "focused"?
- Grinkle
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Undergrad How can we observe and measure interacting vacuum?
- victorvmotti
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Undergrad How should we interpret the Möbius-strip image of spinors?
- pellis
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Undergrad Why ##S_z|+\rangle=\frac{\hbar}{2}|+\rangle##
- Kashmir
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Undergrad Frequency of EM waves in classical and quantum physics
- donniedarko
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High School What proof do we have of wave functions?
- Physics Slayer
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Undergrad Bell vs Kolmogorov: Unravelling Probability Theory Limits
- Killtech
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Graduate Call for experiment : Delayed Choice and Quantum Zeno Effect
- hyksos
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High School Unitarity in GR+QFT: Obeying Full QG Model?
- Question69
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High School Wave-Particle Duality -- When is it a wave and when is it a particle?
- alexandrinushka
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Undergrad What is the difference between charge and force carriers?
- JohnH
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Undergrad X-ray fluorescence photons question
- GTrax
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Graduate Measurement in QFT: Mapping Fields to Theory's Math Formalism
- Jdeloz828
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High School Quantum Entanglement information transmission idea to knock down....
- LozD
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