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Graduate Invitation: Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's life in science online lecture
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Graduate Novie questions about the double-slit experiment
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Graduate Are Anyons Possible in Two Dimensions?
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Graduate Rotation energy in a ball symmertical molecule, why only two axis?
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Graduate Is electron spin uniquely determined?
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Graduate Four Fundamental Forces - What Is the Fourth?
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Graduate How does destructive interference work in the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester?
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Graduate Gravitational force of antimatter
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Graduate Why i in Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Is Space Expansion Driven by Self-Expansion or Dark Energy?
- murongqingcao
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Graduate Why Use Spherical Coordinates for Hydrogen Atom's Hamiltonian in 3D?
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Graduate Why imaginary co-ordinates and complex numbers?
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Undergrad Scanning tunnelling microscope - Whats the piezoscanner for?
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Graduate Explanation of 6j Symbols (Tetrahedron)
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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 do photons reflect at the same angle as they hit the mirror?
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Graduate Do quantum jumps between stationary states 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?
- Lexie_AT
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Graduate Why Does Electron Angular Momentum Not Align with External Field?
- tasnim rahman
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Graduate Does quantum observation mean nothing exists unobserved?
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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 does observing mean in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate How can you prepare a state with a single photon?
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Graduate Why is the Heisenberg picture less popular than the Schrödinger picture?
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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 Weinberg's non-perturbative approach to renormalizing mass and fields in QFT
- anthony2005
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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 How do excitons relate to 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 Why does observation affect Schrödinger's wave equation?
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Graduate Can we measure position and momentum if a particle emits 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 Does an emitted photon exist everywhere on a spherical wavefront until detection?
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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 How many wave oscillations make up a single photon?
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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 Frequency and wavenumber of two wave equations
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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's definition of number of states with energy in an interval
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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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