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Undergrad What Causes Refraction to Occur?

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Graduate Metal Contact Effect on 1-D particle in a box quantum well

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Graduate Time Travel - Between two Kerr metric black holes w/detached event horizons

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Graduate What are the four bell states and how do they relate to entanglement swapping?

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Is It Possible to Find a Romney Voter in an Excited State?

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Graduate Do wave-functions pass through transparent obstacles?

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Graduate Why Are Photons Reflected at the Same Angle They Are Absorbed?

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Graduate Quantum Jumps: Do they really exist?

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Graduate Why is the wave function not measurable alone?

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Undergrad Where can I find recommended books to learn about Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Why Does Electron Angular Momentum Not Align with External Field?

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Graduate Help, my brain hurts. Does anything exist?

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Graduate Relation between commutation and quantization

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Undergrad What Is the Conjugate of the Wave Function ψ(x)=R(x)e^(ikx)?

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Graduate What is the true meaning of observing in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate How can you prepare a state with a single photon?

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Graduate Heisenberg Picture: Popularity & Photon Double-Slit Treatment

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Graduate Emilio Santos joins the dark side

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Graduate Do we really need a cutoff in QFT

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Graduate What causes the tilt angle of a precessing proton to change in a magnetic field?

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Graduate A method to detect fermionic magnetic monopoles?

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Graduate Decoherence and the Density Matrix

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Graduate How Does Gravitational Lensing Work in the Delayed Choice Experiment?

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Graduate Understanding Renormalization in QFT: A General Approach to Mass and Fields

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Graduate A few questions on quantum physics

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Graduate How to find the geometry of singlet/triplet states?

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Graduate How does the Pauli exlusion principle work?

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Graduate Does schrodinger equation give complete description of electron?

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Graduate The role of lambda in Bell (1964) and experiments

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Graduate Excitons. Is this the same as radiative recombination?

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Graduate Q regarding Quantum decoherence, r.e. double slit experiment

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Graduate Quantum entanglement communication

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Undergrad What Is the Collapse of the Wave Function in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Questions abot magnetic monopoles

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Graduate Wave functions, i don't get em

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Graduate Schrodinger's Wave Equation: Understanding Observability

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle & Particles Giving Off Light

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Graduate Couple of questions on quantum physics from non-physicist

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Graduate Assumptions for derivation of Plancks' law

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Graduate Difficulty with relativistic units, eV/c^2

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Graduate Wave Function: Physical Basis of 1st Order Derivative

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High School How matter converted into energy?

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Graduate Heisenbergs thought experiment

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Graduate Two simultaneous measures of complementary properties

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Graduate Finding the 3x3 Matrix Representation of SU(2)

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Graduate Particles and Wigner little groups

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Graduate What does the wavevector \vec{k} mean?

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Graduate Query about Grassmann Variables in Lewis Ryder's book

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Graduate Challenges of very high energy physics

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Graduate Schwartz Distribution Theory in N variables?

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Graduate Electron density in terms of squares of wavefunctions

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Graduate Object Jumping from Quantum Vibrations Statistical Mechanics

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Graduate Quantum particles expand space?

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Graduate Braggs law and x-ray crystallography

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Graduate Eigen Value, Eigen function -Schrodinger wave equation

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Graduate Detecting Entanglement in Alice Without Measuring Bob

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Graduate Comparison of strong nuclear force and electromagnetic force

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Graduate Why is quantum entanglement difficult to realize?

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Graduate Energy Conservation versus Quantum and Relativistic Effects

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Graduate Is Quantum Entanglement a Means of Evil Communication Across the Galaxy?

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Graduate Mach–Zehnder interferometer question, path detection

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Graduate Question about Quantum Theory regarding hydrogen atom and photon

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Graduate Time-energy uncertainty and virtual particles

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Graduate Heisenberg ferromagnet and spin waves

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Graduate Simplest example where quantization is unknown

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Graduate Quantum optics is a reference to a c-number

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High School Electrical activity of an atom

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Graduate Inverting the quantum cloning of photons

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Graduate Looking for a not gentle introduction to Q. Physics

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Graduate Objects Disappearing: Is It Possible?

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Graduate Questionable Question about Photons and Waves

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Graduate Quantum tunnelling outside the light cone?

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Graduate Why Can't H-Atoms Emit a Single Photon in the 2s to 1s Transition?

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Undergrad What is negative energy and how does it relate to the capacity for work?

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Graduate Non central potential and energy dependence

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Graduate Neutrino and Black Hole Interaction: Approaching, Passing, or Colliding?

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Undergrad Check 2 waave displacement equations please

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Graduate What is an observer, defined by QM?

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Graduate How can the Higgs Boson induce mass?

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Graduate Landau: Explaining the Definition of "Number of States with Energy

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Graduate Direct products and direct sums in QM

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Graduate Bell's derivation; socks and Jaynes

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Undergrad Trying to understand (E2 - p2c2 = m2c2 )

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Graduate Does getting which-way info introduce a phase difference?

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Graduate Electron oscillation between states

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Graduate Degeneracy of Hydrogen atomic orbitals with different l-values but same n-value

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Graduate Multi World Hypothesis and The Double Slit Experiment.

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Graduate Why isn't momentum a function of position?

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Graduate Why shall Quantum Mechanics accept Relativity?

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Graduate Schrodinger equation of particle in box

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Graduate Feynman diagrams for spin 1/2 particles

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Graduate How Does Entangled Photon Behavior Challenge Local Realism?

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Graduate Advanced undergrad/grad book for classical mechanics as macro limit of QM

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Graduate Why we only consider ''group'' symmetry but not general symmetry?

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Graduate How did Heisenberg derive his famous principle?

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Graduate What Happens to the Momentum Operator as Planck's Constant Approaches Zero?

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Graduate Theory of Everything or Troll?

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Undergrad Why Don't Electrons Spin Into the Center of the Nucleus?

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Graduate Why Vector Spaces? Origins & Benefits

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Undergrad What really causes electromagnetic induction/ the motor effect?

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