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Graduate Compton Effect: Electron Ejection & Potential Energy

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Graduate How can an operator have an expected value if operators are instructions?

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Graduate Virtual particle production beyond the event horizon.

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Graduate What are the implications of electrons splitting into smaller quasi-particles?

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Graduate 1 Electron, 2 Slits, and the Rest of the Pattern

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Graduate Is quantum mechanics a complete theory of nature?

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Graduate Are atoms truly physical entities or simply arrangements of energy?

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Graduate Quantum Computing: Attosecond Double-Slit Phenomena

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Graduate What Is the Significance of 720 Degree Symmetry in Fermion Rotations?

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Undergrad Why do higher energy levels require less energy to remove electrons?

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Graduate What are the postulates of QFT?

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Graduate Commutation relations for Spin opertors

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Graduate Cesium Atom quantum mechanical description

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Graduate Can Wave and Particle Be Separated in a Modified Double-Slit Experiment?

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Graduate How Do We Compute the Expectation Value <x̂p̂> in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Why does integrating out the delta function change Feynman parameter limits?

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Graduate What is the exchange integral?

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Graduate (properties of) what travels through all possible paths?

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Graduate What is the functional integral theorem for polynomial times Gaussian integrals?

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Graduate Is Fock space always separable?

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Graduate Does a charge have spin outside an atom?

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Undergrad Possibly Stupid Question on Atom Smashing

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Graduate Deriving Coulomb's Law with Virtual Photon Exchange Theory: Complete Explanation

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Graduate Equipartition theorem and molecule of CO

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Graduate EL Equations for the modified electromagnetic field Lagrangian

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Graduate Infinite Square Well and Energy Eigenstate question

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Graduate Possible Explanations of Spooky action at a distance

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Graduate Does future measurement freedom explain uncertainty principle limitations?

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Graduate Imaginary numbers and the real part of the Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Why can't quantum computers be used to solve SAT?

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Graduate Is Dirac's Sea Still Relevant in Modern Physics?

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Graduate Does the uncertainty relation apply to the past?

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Graduate Understanding - how universe/reality plays dice

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Graduate How does spin work in the position representation?

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Graduate Why does requiring δψ = 0 give the BPS equation?

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Graduate To what extent is wind due to quantum indeterminacy

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Undergrad Energy values in infinite potential well

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Graduate Is it the fallacy of my thought?

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Graduate Proving Entanglement - Do we need Bells Theorem?

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Graduate Angular momentum and its uncertainty

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Graduate Do the degrees of freedom change for particles in a relativistic system?

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Graduate Braket Notation: Is <φ|x+y+z|φ> = <φ|x|φ> + <φ|y|φ> + <φ|z|φ>?

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Graduate Time independence of probability amplitudes

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Undergrad Smallest amount of vibrational energy

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Graduate What Are Majorana Particles and What Are their Potential Uses?

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Graduate DeBroglie Wavelength: Proton at Room Temp Scattering Behavior

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Graduate Difference between mixed states and pure states.

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Graduate Intensity in Electromagnetism versus probability density in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate How to solve for Hamiltonian gradient?

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Graduate What are the next steps in constructing \phi_{3}^{4} in Field Theory?

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High School What does Schrödinger's cat experiment demonstrate?

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Graduate Can quantum tunneling in solids generate useful energy when heated?

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Graduate Dirac equation and gamma factor

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Graduate Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Bernard D'Espagnat

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Graduate What is the relationship between quantum states and the size of the universe?

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Graduate Does Planck length and irrational solutions mean time can't be reversed?

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Graduate Slater Determinants for Large numbers of electrons

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Graduate Can we quantize Aristotelian Physics?

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Graduate Understanding Particle Self-Interference in the Double Slit Experiment

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Graduate Alice/Bob Instant communication protocol. Does this work?

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Graduate Electronic Transitions in Protium vs. Deuterium

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Graduate How were Nimtz's faster-than-light tunneling experiments debunked?

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Graduate Why isn't Pauli Exclusion Principle a force?

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Graduate Is Quantumness of Product States a Violation of Classical Realism?

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Graduate What Are the Two Helicities of Electrons and Their Implications?

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Graduate Is Casamir Effect Related to Anti-Matter?

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Graduate Virtual photon-antiphoton pairs?

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Graduate How Do Particles Mediate Forces (Strong Nuclear, Weak Nuclear)

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Graduate Quantum Fourier Transform of Periodic States

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Graduate What are quantum fluctuations ?

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Graduate Wave function of light: are photons waves of probability?

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Graduate Could very low energy virtual particles last a very long time?

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Graduate Flaw in Greene's Bell test illustration from The fabric of the cosmos

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Graduate Desctructive inteference of coherent light beams

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Graduate What is the meaning of the ∂ symbol in wave function equations?

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Graduate What is the scale or density when the double slit experiment stops working?

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Graduate How Does Introducing a Second Magnetic Field Affect NMR and Quantum Behavior?

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Graduate Clasical and quantum harmonic oscillator - correspondence principle

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Graduate Can an airplane go through a quantum tunnel

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Graduate Bound state transitions in QFT

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Graduate How does quantum mechanics resolve determinism in the clockwork universe?

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High School Threshold frequency of metals

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Graduate What is the purpose of the renormalization group?

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Graduate The radial schrodinger equation

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Graduate So light has dual nature but I was wondering

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Undergrad Magnetic Field Orbital Splitting

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Graduate Semiclassical exact expression ?

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Graduate How Does Phase Affect Quantum State Transformations and Interference Patterns?

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Undergrad How is a new photon produced in the Compton effect?

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Graduate Are anyons distinguishable or indistinguishable particles?

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Graduate Measuring which path in Hardy's paradox, results

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Undergrad Can waves of different types produce interference?

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Graduate Matter waves of various particles - do they interact?

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Graduate Do un-entangled photons exist?

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Graduate Wigner's theorem, Bargmann's proof

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Graduate Wick's theorem for other statistics

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Undergrad Why does wave theory fail for the photoelectric effect?

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Graduate Addition of spin angular momenta

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Graduate Why is superdeterminism not the universally accepted explanation of nonlocality?

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Undergrad How do electrons diffract if they're particles?

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