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Graduate Transition from Poisson bracket into Canonical Commutation Relations

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Graduate Computing the commutator [W^2, p^α] with Pauli-Lubanski vector

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Undergrad Energy distribution, amplitude and frequency in wave vs particle 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 Bare mass versus physical mass in a QFT model with external current

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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 Can wave theory explain the Compton effect?

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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 Does the double-slit experiment show wave function collapse?

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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 Overlap integral of harmonic oscillator wave functions

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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 How does the Feynman-Kac formula give the partition function for a Bose gas?

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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 Free energy perturbation expansion in Landau's statistical physics

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Undergrad Accuracy of double slit experiment video for AP physics

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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 Finding photon energy from electron energy levels

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Graduate Heiseinbeg's Uncertainty Priciple and Schrodinger's eqt

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Undergrad de Broglie wavelength of 40 eV electron

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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 Do energy bands belong to individual atoms or to the whole solid?

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Graduate How does a free particle behave in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Static electric field in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Need Help Understanding a Quantum Mechanics Equation

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Graduate Are Majorana fermions confirmed in this experiment?

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Graduate Why is Q=q^{N} only valid for distinguishable particles?

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Graduate Does the position-momentum uncertainty product depend on velocity?

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Graduate Bound state of two micro black holes: methods beyond the Schrödinger equation

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Graduate What does probability amplitude mean

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Graduate Probability of an observable

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Graduate Planck distance and less dimensional gravity

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Graduate Feyeman lectures on anti-particles

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Graduate Energy quantization and energy levels

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Undergrad Most accurate way to visualise an atom.

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Graduate What does the Schrödinger equation mean and how does half-integer spin work?

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Graduate Sum over histories and double slit?

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Graduate Why don't proton and antiproton fully annihilate into pions?

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Graduate Vacuum energy and principle of uncertainty

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Graduate Tendency to drop down to a lower energy state.

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Graduate Single-slit interference with alternating path modulation

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Undergrad Is K*T Equal to hv in Thermal Equilibrium?

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High School Do atoms age or decay over time?

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Undergrad What are the sources of energy in a rigid rotator?

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Graduate Does every quantum field have a non-zero groundstate?

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Graduate Configuration space vs physical space

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Graduate Can electron motion through a medium explain two-slit interference?

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Graduate Compton Effect: Electron Ejection & Potential Energy

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